The nature and treatment of diseases of the ear / by Dr. William Kramer ; translated from the German with the latest improvements of the author since the last German edition by James Risdon Bennett, M.D.

  • Kramer, Wilhelm, 1801-1876.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The nature and treatment of diseases of the ear / by Dr. William Kramer ; translated from the German with the latest improvements of the author since the last German edition by James Risdon Bennett, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The additions with which Dr. Kramer has favoured me, since the publication of the last German edition, have been incorporated with the text. The last work which has appeared on this subject, is a very elaborate German treatise, bv Dr. C'has. Gustavus Lincke, of Leipsic, entitled A Manual of Theoretical and Practical Acoustic Medicine. The first part, only, is yet published, in a large and very thick 8vo. volume, comprising the Anatomy, Physiology, and Morbid Anatomy of the Ear, illustrated by numerous lithographic plates. I have not had an opportunity of doing more than glance at this volume, whilst the last sheets of the present trans- lation were passing through the press; but this I the less regret, as it does not contain the practical part of the subject. Our indefatigable German neighbours are evidently rousing themselves to remove the opprobrium that has hitherto attached to acoustic medicine. In our own coun- try the treatment of aural diseases has fallen almost entirely under the care of a class of persons who have no preten- sions to scientific information. All that is required in order to render the treatment of these diseases compara- tively satisfactory, and thus restore them to the care of well qualified practitioners, is a little manual dexteritv in the introduction of the catheter, and careful local investigation of the affected organ. Hence will result a more deep con- viction of the paramount importance of detecting and arresting diseases of the ear at their onset, before they have