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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    favor, having passed through two editions, and it has given tone to all the otological literature and investigations of its day. Von Troltsch improved and brought into general use the method of illumination first proposed by Dr. Hoffman, of Westphalia, and thus at one step advanced the science very materially. In 1862, the same year that Yon Troltsch issued his text- book, Dr. Adam Politzer, of Yienna, promulgated his method of injecting the middle ear with air, or of inflating the middle ear. It is hard to overestimate the value of this simple pro- cedure, and the benefit to our science and art that its invention caused. The writer can but quote the opinion of an eminent prac- titioner of this city, who in speaking of Politzer's method once said to him : If a man were to take this air-bag, and travel through the country, advertising himself as an aurist, and blow up all the ears indiscriminately that were brought to him, he would be a very successful quack. Indeed, the effects of this means of treatment, especially in the case of children, or adults who have suffered but a short time from impairment of the hearing, from disease of the middle ear, are often wonderful. 1883] Dr. Julius Erhard published a work upon the dis- eases of the ear, which is a peculiar mixture of truth with error. The book is rather curious and interesting.* In 1864, Dr. von Troltsch, Dr. Politzer, and Dr. Herman Schivarlze, of Halle, issued the first number of the Archiv fur Ohrenheilkuncle, a work which has been regularly continued under their management, and which has formed a true guide to the otological student and practitioner. In 1865 Dr., now Professor, Politzer published a mono- graph upon the membrana tympani, which was translated into English, and published in the United States, by my friends and colleagues Drs. Arthur Mathewson and Homer P. New- ton, of Brooklyn. The frequent use which every recent writer on otology is obliged to make of this valuable mono- graph, is sufficient evidence of its merit. In October, 1867, the first number of the Monatsschrift fur * Klinische Otiatria Berlin.