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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    Ohrenheilkunde was issued, under the direction of Dr. Volto- lini, of Breslau, Dr. Josef Gruber, of Vienna, Dr. F. E. Weber, of Berlin, and Dr. N. Riiiinger, of Munich. All of these edi- tors have contributed very much to the scientific advance of otology; while Dr. Rudinger has probably done more than any anatomist of his day to elucidate the anatomy of the Eustachian tube. His photographic atlas of the ear is a work of permanent value, and one of which the author has made frequent use in illustrating some of the chapters of this work. 1866] Dr. S. Moos* of Heidelberg, issued a practical treatise on aural disease in 1866, and Dr. Oruber,\ of Vienna, one in 1870. Both of these volumes show much original re- search and are worthy of an English translation, which would bring them before a much larger circle of readers. The American Otological Society was established in 1868, and has held annual meetings since, and has published four volumes of Transactions. To these papers the author has had frequent occasion to refer in the preparation of the fol- lowing chapters, and it is believed that they furnish evidence of the high character of the work that has been done by American otologists. No outline of what has been done in the last twenty years for otology would be complete without a reference to the writ- ings of Professor Edward H. Clarke, of Harvard University. Dr. Clarke published a paper on perforations of the membrana tympani,J its causes and treatment, which was probably the best that had been written on this subject. It received a full recognition among foreign authorities. In this article is con- tained a very important sentence, quoted by Von Troltsch in his text-book, a passage full of meaning and warning : So necessary is a careful attention to the ear, during the course of an acute exanthema, that every physician who treats such a case icith- out careful attention to the organ of hearing, must be denominated an unscrupulous practitioner. Dr. Clarke has also published a monograph upon polypus * Klinik der Olirenkranklieiten. f Lehrbucli der Olirenlieilkunde. % American Journal of the Medical Sciences, January, 1858.