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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    of silver, two or three grains to the ounce, carefully applied with a camel-hair pencil, would generally stop an ear-discharge in its incipient stage. A most essential point for persons threatened with deafness, is the observance of early hours in retiring to rest. Among the higher classes, it is astonishing to observe the amount of evil inflicted upon those with. hereditary or acquired tendency to deafness, who, by implicitly becoming the votaries of fashion, are neg- lected in this respect. TREATMENT. In the treatment of confirmed deafness, the strictest regard should be had to the cause of the disease, and the stage to which it is applied. When there is a sub- inflammatory condition of the throat, with a sensation of heat in the fauces, or heat and pain in the ear, or when the introduction of a silver catheter occasions pain at the mouths of the Eustachian tubes, local deple- tion is the great agent in removing the disease of the mucous membrane, and preventing the perpetuation of the deafness. Leeches applied once or twice a week for a considerable period, either behind the ears, or within the nostrils, to the sides of the septum narium, fol- lowed, as the disordered state of the throat diminishes, by a succession of small blisters, or the moxa, along the margin of the jaw, or dry cuppings behind or upon the ears, form the best mode of treatment for this the most frequent form of deafness. When the pain is more acute, of a throbbing character, and accompanied by tinnitus of a ringing, or pulsatory kind, recourse should be had to cupping either behind the ears or on the nape of the neck. At the same
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