Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker.

  • Moschzisker, F. A. von (Franz Adolph)
Date:
1860
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Credit: Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [8] worthy of consideration, requiring the skill and experience of the most eminent practition- ers. Among these maladies are diseases of the eye and the ear. With these organs imper- fect, life is deprived of its greatest pleasure and enjoyment; for what is life witheut sight and without heariug? It is of no earthly value, but becomes indeed a burthen. Yet what organs are more neglected, or perhaps worse than neglected by being, with raie ex- ceptions, placed in the hands of ignorant and unskillful empirics, who practice upon the credulity of the public, and, like the regicide of old— Stole With juice of cursed bebenon in a vial, And in the porches of the ears did pour The leperous diatillruent. The entire want of all professional knowl- edge of those nostrum vendors frequently entails serious consequences on the unhappy gufferer. From statistics in my possession, gathered in the course of my practice in the East, the South, the West, and the North, during the last six years, I am satisfied that in any city of ten thousand inhabitants, at least eighteen hundred of them, including persons of all ages, are suffering either from partial or total deafness. And 1 have no hesitation in asseit- ing, that in the city of New York, if the facta could be ascertained, it would be found that at