On deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes, assisted by Claud Woakes.

  • Woakes, Edward, 1837-1912.
Date:
1896
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Credit: On deafness, giddiness, and noises in the head / by Edward Woakes, assisted by Claud Woakes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    extract from the Preface to his work on Nasal Polypus * as follows :— Extract from Preface to Nasal Polypus published July, 1887. The facts set forth in the following pages came primarily under the author's observation whilst studying the states of the nose and adjacent organs associated with, or provocative of, affections of the ear. These studies had of late been prosecuted with a view to the completion of a treatise on the latter sub- ject, one half only of which has yet been issued; but for many reasons the author decided to interpolate the present volume before concluding his unfinished work. A chief reason for the adoption of this course is that some of the reflex nasal symptoms which form part of the subjects herein discussed occur in regions which can be inspected by the unaided sight, or by the assistance of simple scientific appliances, so that no * Nasal Polypus, with Neuralgia, Hay Fever, and Asthma in Relation to Ethmoiditis. Preface. London : H. K. Lewis. 1887.