A practical treatise on the diseases of the ear : including the anatomy of the organ / by D.B. St. John Roosa.

  • Roosa, D. B. St. John (Daniel Bennett St. John), 1838-1908.
Date:
1880
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the ear : including the anatomy of the organ / by D.B. St. John Roosa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1800] Mr. Everard Home wrote an excellent, and, for its time, exact account of the membrana tympani in a paper for the Boyal Society.* The measurements are accurately given, but Mr. Home supposed that the fibrous layer was muscular. He seems to have been a comparative anatomist of great ability. 1806] Samuel Thomas Soemmering, a great name in anatom- ical science, contributed to otology by a series of plates of the anatomy of the ear, which are almost as well worth study to-day as they were seventy years ago. 1832] Henry Jones Shrapnell contributed a series of papers to the London Medical Gazette, f He described the membrana flaccida of the drum-head, its nerves, with clear- ness and accuracy. His description of the former is available for the student of the present time, and Shrapnell's membrane is probably firmly fixed in the nomenclature of the anatomy of the ear. 1832] Thomas Buchanan, of Hull, brought out a monograph illustrative of the anatomy and diseases of the ear. His ideas as to the importance of the cerumen produced many errors in treatment, from which the profession has not yet fully recovered. He published four works; the title of the last one illustrates what has just been said : Physio- logical Illustrations of the Organ of Hearing, more particularly of the Secretion of Cerumen, and its effects in rendering Auditory Perception acute and accurate.''^ 1836-39] The distinguished English surgeon, T. Wharton Jones, Esq., contributed to a great cyclopaedia an ar- ticle on the organ of hearing, which comprised all that was known up to that time, and which is a very valuable mono- graph for reference^ 1821-51] We are now, in our review of the investigations of the anatomy of the ear, down nearly to our own time; and we come to the familiar names of Huschke, Ar- * Philosophical Transactions, 1800. The Croonian Lecture, f Vol. x., 1832. % Mr. Wilde on the early history of Aural Surgery. Dublin Medical Journal, 1844, p. 441. § Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. Edited by Robert B. Todd.