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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    ON AURAL SURGERY. It is estimated that, upon a moderate calcu- lation, there are at least one million tour HUNDRED thousand PERSONS more or less afflicted with diminution of the sense of hearing, or diseases of the ears,* and THIRTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS IN GREAT BRITAIN.t There are only eleven insti- tutions for giving to the deaf and dumb * See account taken by E. Schmatz, of Dresden, for 1830.—Gazette Medicale. t By the historical sketch of the Asylum, in the Kent- road, the result of a table of twenty families is ninety deaf and dumb out of 154 children. From this, there- fore, it would appear that the numbers mentioned above, though large, are not over-estimated. B