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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    either causes them to be dismissed from their situations as servants, or, if they are retained, it is attended with much inconvenience to their employers. It:is to obviate these evils, so distressing to the lower orders, that the pr esent Institution is established, in which every surgical aid is given that the nature of the subject admits ; and if the inconvenience cannot altogether be remedied, the patient is supplied, free of expense, with such artificial means as have been found by experience useful in such imperfections of the organ. Every Subscriber of One Guinea per Annum is en- titled to one Patient always on the Books; Two Guineas entitles two Patients, and so in proportion; Ten Guineas constitutes a Life Governor. Cases of accident, and cases of Deaf and Dumb, are admitted without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions are received at the Banking Houses of Sir William Curtis, Bart. and Co., Lombard-street ; Messrs. Barclay and Co., Lombard-street; Messrs. Hammersley and Co., Pall-mall; W. Cobbe, Esq. No. 31, Regent-street, Piccadilly; and by J. H. Curtis, Esq. Surgeon to the Institution, No. 2, Soho-square. By the last Report of this Charity, it will be seen . that upwards of 6120 Patients have been received, the greater number of whom, to the satisfaction of the Go- vernors, have been cured or relieved, and thereby ren- dered capable of following their various employments, for which before many were incompetent. The benevolent views of the Charity are not confined to the inhabitants of the metropolis, but extend to every individual.