On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the tympana were fully exposed to view, and the patient could “whistle” through the ears. Under such circumstances, so rapid a cure could not have been expected. I had the satisfaction of hearing from this patient that many years ago I had entirely cured his son of an extreme deafness by excision of exuberant growths from the tonsils. The lad, now a man, had been entirely restored to hearing by the operation. Miss , the daughter of a surgeon in the North, favoured me with a visit on the 10th of January, bringing with her an introductory note from her father, from which I extract the following brief history of her complaint :—u When she was about five or six years of age (she is now twenty), she had a severe attack of scarlet fever, during which her ears began to discharge ; and on be- coming convalescent, I was grieved to find her hearing affected. Except keeping the ears clean with the daily use of warm water (injected), I did nothing more, and scarcely have done anything more ever since, although occasionally urged to do so by several of my medical friends. You will find the membranae tympanorum more or less gone in both ears. Her general health is uniformly good. She hears very fairly on one side, but very im- perfectly on the other. I have thought the case a favourable one for the cotton wool, as advised by