A text-book of the diseases of the ear / by Josef Gruber ; translated from the second German edition by special permission of the author, and edited by Edward Law and by Coleman Jewell.

Date:
1890
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Credit: A text-book of the diseases of the ear / by Josef Gruber ; translated from the second German edition by special permission of the author, and edited by Edward Law and by Coleman Jewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION. The great advance which has taken place in the theory and practice of otology during the last ten years, imposes upon the teacher of this branch of medicine a task no longer possible to accomplish satisfactorily within the short space of time which it is customary to devote to it in the ordinary medical curriculum. This being the case, it must rest with private study to supply the unavoidable deficiencies left in this department. A text-book arranged in such a way as to correspond with the method observed by the student in the acquisition of his clinical experience, will best meet these requirements ; a general survey of the subject will be thereby facilitated, and the views of other writers will be the better appreciated. This book should, therefore, prove of special service to the author’s pupils, to whom it is submitted in the hope that they will regard it as some sign of his sincere desire to aid their further labours as far as lies within his power. He likewise trusts it may be found useful by those who, while they have not had the opportunity of receiving practical instruction in the specialty, afterwards come to recognise the necessity for an acquaintance with it in the course of their daily practice.