Illustrations of acoustic surgery / By Thomas Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, Thomas, 1782-1853.
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of acoustic surgery / By Thomas Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The bowels ought at the same time to be kept open with a saline purgative. The species of deafness or diminution of hear- ing, arising from indurated wax, is the most frequent, and at the same time admits of the most easy mode of cure of any species of disease which affects the auditory organs.* * If the practitioner be acquainted with Acoustic Surgery, he should therefore be able to form a correct prognosis of the complaint immediately after inspection,