Contributions to aural surgery. Pt. III. Inflammatory affections of the membrana tympani and middle ear / by W.R. Wilde.

  • Wilde, William Robert Willis, 1815-1876.
Date:
1848
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    CONTRIBUTIONS, &C. &C. PART 111.(a) Notwithstanding the remarks which we daily meet with in the periodic and “ manual” literature of the day,—that the treatment of diseases of the ear is an opprobium to medicine, —the progress which this branch of medical science is mak- ing is in all probability as rapid as that of the other depart- ments of the healing art. Among the many causes from which this opinion has arisen, there are two which must pre-eminently attract the attention of any person conversant with the subject, or who will calmly examine into the question. The first is, that heretofore the treatment of those diseases has been com- mitted to the hands of the most uneducated quacks and char- («) Part I., upon the Causes and Treatment of Otorrhoea, appeared in the former Series of this Journal, for January, 1844, vol. xxiv. p. 388. This essay has been twice translated into German,—first by Dr. Von Hasselberg, of Stralsund, in 1846, and afterwards by Dr. Schmaltz, of Dresden, during the present year. Part II., upon the early History of Aural Surgery, and the Nosological Arrangement of Diseases of the Ear, appeared in that for May, 1844, vol. xxv. p. 422. To students and those commencing the study of aural diseases, who may be familiar with the German language, I would recommend the perusal of the work of Dr. Martell Frank, “ Practische Anleituny zur Erkenntvis und Behandluny der Ohrenhranhheilcn,” &c. &c., Erlangen, 1845. B