On a new mode of treating deafness when attended by partial or entire loss of the membrana tympani, associated or not with discharge from the ear / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1852
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Credit: On a new mode of treating deafness when attended by partial or entire loss of the membrana tympani, associated or not with discharge from the ear / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON A NEW MODE OP TREATING DEAFNESS, ETC. (Heprinted from the Lancet.) Up to the present time, no successful mode of treating perforations of the membrane of the drum of the ear, either as respects the restoration of the membrane, or the relief of the accompanying deafness, has been dis¬ covered. The only means resorted to for the latter purpose have been the removal of pus or mucus from the tympanal cavity by syringing, or rendering it free by passing air through the perforation, by way of the Eustachian tube. Either of these proceedings will produce a temporary improvement of the hearing in cases where the tympanum suffers from obstruction, but in many others, when such a state does not obtain, they are of little, if of any service. Another mode of treatment, but one directed to the renovation of the drum, is the employment of mercury, with a view to produce “ a new creation of membrane.” The trans¬ lator of Kramer’s work (Dr. R. Bennett) has referred to such a case, but it was not attended by results that would justify others in pursuing a similar treatment. In this case, one-fourth of the membrane was gone, but, under the influence of mercury (?) a thin pellicle B