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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    [10] physiology and pathology of the eye and ear. When Wi investigtte the productions of these gre tt min Is, we mmt say, (hat though hum 1a intellect is the creative element of science, entering as i1. <Jo •■• upon various subjects, but always bv n*. tame path ; and hence we de- d i j it'i ittm*** «b iino n ttional but an univer- 8 ilchiracter—nevertheless we mint regard the Gjrmin school as the one m-»3tly prepared for grevt scientific investigation*. Energetic will an 1 ei^er perseverance in the ac pisition of knowledge are the endowments belonging to the G inn in character. In proof of this asser- tion, 1 need but again refer to their works on all branches of science. S)me little effort had been made by the physicians in this country to restore the sight of the blind, but the important organ of the ear seems almost entirely to have been over- looked, and it is strange that amaurosis, or gntta serena—the name of the sympathetic blindness occasioned by disorders of the diges- tive canal and other causes—shontd be well understood, and discnssed often in the divers medical periodicals published in this country while the analogous disorder affecting the ear should never have received more than the . most cursory attention. Obstructions of the biliary section, and an accumulation of morbid bile in the gall ducts, justly remarks an emi- neut aurist,* sometimes occasion remarkable *Ve»r§ley on the E»r.