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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    comparative, though often quite sufficient for the pur- poses of ordinary communication. In this form of disease, acute otitis is very liable to supervene, requiring a most energetic anti-phlogistic treatment by means of abstinence, purgatives, and local depletion, sufficient, if possible, to alleviate the pain, and prevent its termination by suppuration through the membrane. When this latter accident has happened, the hearing often returns; and the dis- charge, with perforation of the membrana tympani, may continue a patient’s lifetime, by attention and cleanliness, without any considerable deafness. If the discharge disappears, and the membrane cicatrizes after suppurative perforation, which frequently happens, though it has been a subject of doubt, deafness has occurred in every case of the kind I have ever wit- nessed. . Since the publication in the Medical Gazette of my paper on perforation of the membrana tympani, and the proper cases for its performance, I have met with a most interesting case, which singularly confirms my view of the applicability of the operation to certain cases. It occurred in a mechanic who had, many years before his application to the Institution, suffered from otitis, with suppuration through the membrane, which after some time closed, the discharge ceasing at the same time. When he came to me, he had had a second attack of inflammation of the ear; and I found that, from the stoppage of the discharge after the first attack to the commencement of the second, twenty years had elapsed, during which time he had suffered from deafness. When I saw him first (in the second attack), the otitis was so far advanced that suppura-
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