Deafness practically illustrated / [James Yearsley].

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

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    time, all the prominent causes of deafness should be avoided: a light nutritious diet adhered to, while tonics, and non-mercurial aperients, should be prescribed to give energy to the system. As the progress of ear- disease is generally lingering and slow, so also is its removal usually a work of time, under the most favour- able circumstances. More good is effected by the steady pursuance of moderate means than by sudden and violent assaults upon the seat of disease. The depletory treat- ment should be continued, at least, till the entire dis- appearance of pain from the ears, or vicinity of the Eustachian tubes, and till the gorged condition of the mucous membrane of the throat and nasal cavities has subsided. During the prosecution of the local anti- phlogistic plan, catheterism should be resorted to, when it can be performed without giving pain, and the air- douche moderately applied to dislodge any inspissated mucus which may have accumulated in the tympanum or Eustachian tube; but as long as depletion is neces- sary, catheterism can only be used as an adjuvant for the purpose I have mentioned. If the introduction of the catheter causes pain, an occasional emetic will prove the best substitute, though it does not so effectually relieve the tympanic cavities of mucus. ‘The state of the mucous membrane of the throat is sometimes much improved by the action of emetics. These means, judiciously varied or combined according to circum- stances, will generally serve to subdue ear-disease of the kind pointed out, or, at all events, ameliorate the deafness to a considerable degree. I should mention, that after hearing has once been seriously impaired, it rarely or never regains its pristine acuteness; the cure ean only, in the majority of cases, be considered as
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