Account of the post-mortem examination of a case of deafness, in which were found an abnormal state of the ossicula auditus, etc / [Joshua I. Cohen].

  • Cohen, Joshua I.
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[1842]
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Credit: Account of the post-mortem examination of a case of deafness, in which were found an abnormal state of the ossicula auditus, etc / [Joshua I. Cohen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From the American Medical Intelligencer, May 1842, Edited by Professor Dunglison. Art. II.—Account of the POST-MORTEM examination of a Case of DEAFNESS, in which were found an abnormal Stat6 of the OSSICULA AUDITUS, with other irregularities in one Ear, and Destruction of the MEMBRANA TYMPANI and disorganization of the soft parts in the Tympanum, &c. in the other. BY JOSHUA I. COHEN, M. D. OF BALTIMORE, MD. [The following valuable communication was read before the American Philosophical Society, at a recent meeting; and is noticed in the “ Proceedings” of that body. It has rarely hap¬ pened that opportunities have been embraced for examining into the condition of the organ of hearing in cases of deafness, or that they have fallen within the observation of an investigator so com¬ petent as the author of this Paper.—Ed.] The facts contained in the following paper have been deemed worthy of note, as adding one more example to the few on record of the undeveloped or rudimentary condition of a portion of the organ of hearing in man. For this reason the case has been thought of sufficient interest to claim the honour of the attention of the members of this society. Although the irregularity be¬ longs to a very minute structure of the human body, it is never¬ theless connected with an important organ, whose whole structure is minute, and in which every deviation, however slight, from the usual normal state, must influence, more or less, the proper exer¬ cise of its function. Those members of the society who have been engaged in in¬ vestigating the pathological conditions of the organ of hearing, and have felt, like myself, even with our present improved methods of investigation, the difficulties attendant thereupon, from the want of a series of well-observed facts, will I am sure, receive with due attention, every contribution that may tend, in the slightest degree, to illustrate the condition upon which mani¬ festations of disease depend.