An essay on the diseases of the internal ear / by J.A. Saissy ; translated from the French by Nathan R. Smith, with a supplement on diseases of the external ear, by the translator.

  • Saissy, J. A. (Jean-Antoine), 1756-1822.
Date:
1829
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    1 >t The structure of the auditor] apparatus ii extremely complicated; the parts which constitute its struotars arc so deeply hidden, thai its d re concealed from view; and hence the uncertainty of their diagno 2d. The belief that congenital deafness alvt ays depends upon some fault of original conformation. In consequence of such belief, thai species <>f deafness is regarded as irremediable, so that no one presumes to employ the Least remedial mean. k re are unguis which we can conveniently use, and frequently with much benefit 1 had an instance of this in the person of young Briguet Congenital deafness, and that which occurs soon after birth, often depends merely upon in- spissated mucus which obstructs the eustachian tube and the cavity of the drum. Nevertheless,] do not pretend to call in question the defect of early conformation, which often pre- sents itself in the structure of the internal ear, such aswedis- OOVer in other parts of the body, hut it. is only in this case that deafness is incuralilc. 3d. The difficulty of applying remedies immediately to the part affected, is another reason which has opposed the progress of the treatment of the diseases of the car. That difiiculty is removed, as regards the affections of the eustachian tuhe, the cavity of the tympanum, and the mastoid cells. The instru- ments which I have invented fulfd, in that respect, the end desired; for, by means of them, wc can convey into those ca- vities the liquors which we judge proper. By their means mail} causes of deafness will he removed and hearing restored. Of this I am convinced by experiment and observation. I do not propose to give a complete treatise on deafness but only to throw some degree of Light upon the etiology and treatment of that disease, and to furnish some further means of overcoming it. Indeed, by considering the diseases which affect the different parts of the internal ear, as being the cau-