Short contributions to aural surgery / by Sir William B. Dalby.

  • Dalby, William B. (William Bartlett), Sir, 1840-1918.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Short contributions to aural surgery / by Sir William B. Dalby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As the following Short Contributions to Aural Surgery may be more convenient for reference in a collected form, I now republish them. In no sense whatever do they pretend to be essays, or anything more than brief notes of what seemed at the time worth record- ing out of the cases which were seen in daily practice. The time during which these notes appeared is marked by periods when accepted views in regard to diseases of the ear and their treatment became to me modified in some instances, and changed in others. This has been especially noticeable in the following particulars. The exaggerated importance which was given to alterations in the tympanic membrane as affecting hearing, rather than to the disorganization behind the membrane, vide No. IV. The possibility of establishing in certain cases a per- manent opening in the external auditory canal when this has become closed by a cicatrix, vide No. III. The cutting away of exostoses in the external auditory eanal by a dental drill; which, so far as I can learn, was not employed for this purpose till I