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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    trepanned. His advice was not followed and the patient died. He also relates cases where this operation was successfully performed, and he must therefore be considered as the origi- nator of this valuable procedure.* 1735] We then come to the famous postmaster of Versailles, Guyot, who first injected the Eustachian tube. His own hearing was impaired, and in order to relieve it he introduced an angular tube of tin through the mouth, opposite fgegenj, not into, the Eustachian tube. The distal extremity of this instru- ment was attached to a leathern tube. This was connected to the reservoir of two small pumps, which were moved by two cranks and a wheel fastened in machinery, by means of which he forced fluid through a curved pewter tube, placed behind the uvula, into, or about, the mouth of his Eustachian tube, and removed the impairment of hearing. 1735] Beck,f who quotes from the Hist, de VAcad. des Sci- ences, thinks that Guyot washed out the mouth of the Eus- tachian tube. We now know that the procedure alone is a very valuable one. I regret very much that I cannot get access to Guyot's original report to the French Academy. About fifteen years later Archibald Cleland, an English physician, revised the operation of catheterization of the Eus- tachian tube, and introduced a tube through the nose, which was a much more practicable method than that of Guyot. His contemporaries seem to have paid little attention to his suggestions, for Van Sivieten recommends catheterization of the tube through the mouth as a possible operation. Wilde attempts to claim the use of the catheter as a British dis- covery. He makes Guyot a mere suggester of the operation of catheterization, but I think the evidence is in favor of the French postmaster. 1755] Jonathan Wathan, an English author, reported cases of restoration of hearing by means of catheterization of the tube through the nose. His paper is in the Philosophical Transactions of the Eoyal Society. He seems not to have known of Cleland's labors in the same direction. * For a full account of the operations on the mastoid, see the appropriate chapter in this work. ■j- Die Krankheiten des Gehoerorganes, 1827, p. 21.