Deafness practically illustrated / [James Yearsley].

  • James Yearsley
Date:
[1849]
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Credit: Deafness practically illustrated / [James Yearsley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    field is offered for defensive operations before they become confirmed. ; Timely attention, such as the generality of people are able to command, would greatly lessen the number of the deaf. Unfortunately, it is common for those who are threatened with loss of hearing to argue, that from the tardy advance of the evil, the causes © which are producing it cannot be very powerful or deeply rooted, and they flatter themselves that time will of itself bring relief rather than aggravation. Thus it is that thousands, by culpable neglect, throw away the invaluable chance of recovery offered by early treatment and prudential self-regard. The tissues of the ear are so solid, and shut out from other organs, that when once a diseased habit has been esta- blished within it, it is only with the greatest difficulty the enemy can be dislodged. Nothing more surely “proves the slow-stealing advance of deafness (in a general sense) than that very few of the deaf are able to name the precise date of their misfortune. They can generally remember that long before they con- sidered themselves deaf, there were times when con- versation in a large room, or in the society of several persons, required unusual attention to be correctly apprehended. ‘That in damp weather, or whilst eating, or when the back was turned to the speaker, the diffi- culty was increased. That words containing certain consonants, as 7 or s, were sometimes mistaken for others, this being the case especially with proper names; that the voice of a stranger, or conversation in a strange room, was less intelligible than one to which the hearer had been accustomed. All these facts are interesting, as being among the first signs of failing
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