A new and familiar treatise on the structure of the ear and on deafness / [Alphonso William Webster].

  • Webster, Alphonso William.
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new and familiar treatise on the structure of the ear and on deafness / [Alphonso William Webster]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The confusion attendant on the names, has been heightened by the necessity authors have found themselves under of representing the different parts of greatly enlarged pro¬ portions ; and not preserving one uniform scale throughout, and rarely stating that which they have adopted, both the mind and the eye are misled, and we turn away with fatigue, if not with disgust, from a study present]ng such preliminary difficulties. These causes have nearly confined all knowledge of the ear to professed anato¬ mists ; and those popular writers who have rendered almost all other abstruse researches familiar, have been deterred from attempting this, the nature of the subject requiring per¬ sonal investigation of difficult procurement, and the deductions of those who have thus investigated it, affording a very impefrect guide. One great channel for the extension of knowledge has thus been cut off; the most valuable discoveries having frequently been brought to light by those who, having a
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