On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley.

  • James Yearsley
Date:
1856
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Credit: On a new method of treating otorrhoea / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    baffled the best-directed and most persevering efforts of medical practitioners to remedy. In the present as in the former case, the agent by which such a result is accomplished is so simple, and seemingly so inadequate to the end, that nothing short of the most irrefragable and conclusive ex- perience could suffice to convince me of the value of the method, and the superiority it possesses over the uncertain and precarious modes of treating otorrhoea by injections hitherto in use; nor will it be less surprising when it is added that it is neither more nor less than a modification of the remedy already introduced to the notice of the Profession, for the alleviation, if not for the cure, of all those cases of deafness that arise from partial or entire loss of the membrana tympani—namely, cotton- wool. + But what I have just stated regarding this new mode of treating otorrhoea does not comprehend, by any means, the only advantage derivable from its employment ; for its value is not limited to the mere arrest and cure of the discharge. It has this additional superiority over the usual modes of treatment, that the sense of hearing, so frequently impaired under the use of astringents, is, on the contrary, not only not diminished, but decidedly and in many cases immensely improved. It is not denied that astringent injections con-
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