The nature and causes of catarrhal, "throat", or hereditary deafness : an explanation of paracusis willisii the mechanism of aural accommodation, the regulation of labyrinthine fluid pressure, the tightening of relaxed tympanic membrances and joints, the relief of tinnitus aurium with the description of a new method of treatment and some illustrative cases / by Charles J. Heath.

  • Heath, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1856-1934
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[1912]
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Credit: The nature and causes of catarrhal, "throat", or hereditary deafness : an explanation of paracusis willisii the mechanism of aural accommodation, the regulation of labyrinthine fluid pressure, the tightening of relaxed tympanic membrances and joints, the relief of tinnitus aurium with the description of a new method of treatment and some illustrative cases / by Charles J. Heath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accordance with this belief has consequently been in vogue tor many years, though treatment founded on it has uniformly proved ineffective. For more than a generation the profession has been practising this ineffective, this unfortunate treatment.3 I shall bring conclusive evidence to prove that paracusis is not the result of any stiffening of joints; that, far from this being the case, it is, on the con- trary, usually associated with their undue mobility, amounting, indeed, occasionally, to extreme relaxa- tion of all the tympanic structures. Such a Note 2—continued of the treatment I have accordingly devised for the cure of the deafness which accompanies it, will enable the -reader to understand why it is that paracusis persists even after the hcarinq has been restored or greatly improved, by the remedy I am about to describe.] [Note 3.— Unfortunate because perpetual failure to cure by such treatment has led the Otological world to believe that deafness of this kind is incurable. It is of necessity incurable by measures, which, as I will presently prove, are unsuitable for this sort of deafness. Any disease may prove refractory when inappropriate remedies are applied. If the old pathological teaching were correct—viz., that para- cutic deafness is due to stiff joints, then the loosening treatment of the past thirty or forty years, which was founded upon it, could not have failed so completely as it has.]