An address to persons afflicted with deafness : particularly the obscure cases, denominated nervous deafness : with comments on the methods hitherto adopted of treating these complaints, and more rational practice pointed out / by B. Wright.

  • Wright, William, 1773-1860.
Date:
1820
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Credit: An address to persons afflicted with deafness : particularly the obscure cases, denominated nervous deafness : with comments on the methods hitherto adopted of treating these complaints, and more rational practice pointed out / by B. Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Another professed wonderful discovery has been made, that by plugging up the external auditory passage with scented aerate, the Eustachian tube, (which is the inner passage leading from the cavity on the other side of the drum, into the part of the throat above the palate) will- cleanse itself if obstructed with mucus; this has been forced upon the attention of the public in every possible way so fre- quently, in conjunction with the name of the inventor, that much as I should wish to avoid discussing the subject, which is almost too ridiculous to deserve a serious refutation, I feel 1 should not be dis- charging the duty I propose performing, if I suffered it to pass in silence ; for, although to persons of mere common sense, this appears to possess such a de-