The present state of aural surgery, or, Methods of treating deafness, diseases of the ears, and the deaf and dumb : addressed to the Honourable the members of the Committee of Inquiry into the State of the Medical Profession / by W. Wright.

  • Wright, William, 1773-1860.
Date:
1834
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    case of a healthy person, could be at- tempted. Mr. Stevenson adopted a practice of touching the tonsils, and adjacent parts, with either solution of lunar caustic, or some sti- mulating application. This was, it is pre- sumed, upon the principle of counter-irritation. Amongst others, Lord Charles Wellesley be- came my patient, after having been subjected to this treatment; and respecting whom the information was conveyed, as an on dit, that he had perfectly recovered his hearing under the care of Mr. Stevenson, and had returned to Eton school. In this, and numerous cases, amongst which was a young gentleman, whose deafness had been occasioned by scarlet fever, it was, in my opinion, erroneous practice, and, as the result proved, not warranted by the nature of the complaint. Mr. Curtis advertised that he could remove obstructions from the Eustachian tube by stopping the external auditory passage with cerate; and this, he stated, was upon the same principle as the effect produced on the ear by descending in a diving-bell. Dr.