A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear; containing a comparative view of its structure and functions, and of its various diseases, arranged according to the anatomy of the organ ... / by John Harrison Curtis.

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860
Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear; containing a comparative view of its structure and functions, and of its various diseases, arranged according to the anatomy of the organ ... / by John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE LXIII. John Jacobs, in consequence of fever, had a discharge from both ears at the age of four years, which having ceased, left him completely deaf. He lost his speech gradually, and at the time he was brought to me by his guardian, he could not hear or articulate a word. He was a native of Amsterdam; and as he had been under the care of a physician at the Hague, who had applied blisters behind the ears, and administered — a variety of remedies, without success, I was de- ‘sirous of perforating the membrane of the tympa- num, which operation I performed on the 2d of February. I succeeded in restoring his hearing instantly, which continued until the 7th inst., when the orifice made in the membrane partly closed, and he by degrees returned to his former state of deafness. I repeated the operation. on the 20th, after immersing the instrument in a weak solution of the acidum nitrosum. After the operation he did not hear so well as when it was before performed, but I had the satisfaction to _ find that the orifice continued open, and the hear- ing continued to improve. But I do not attribute the cure so much to the operation as to the after