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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    acquainted with has an equally beneficial effect on: the ear with this, when given, as I have specified, 7x small doses, persisted in for a considerable time. Its ther- apeutic powers accord with the principle of szmilia similibus curantur, the first effect being to excite an in- ordinate action of the mucous surfaces; generally after three or four doses the patient experiences sneezing, headache, heaviness, and drowsiness, rapidly followed by an increased secretion from the eyes and nose, with all the symptoms of common influenza. Unless pre- pared for the result, the patient reports himself to have ‘¢taken another of the colds to which he is so subject.” These catarrhal symptoms, however, soon disappear, and not till then are we to expect improvement; for during the persistence of these first effects of the medi- cine, the patient will experience an increase of deaf- ness the same as from a genuine cold. Although I have no great opinion of gargles, I have sometimes fancied that the secretion and disgorging of the mucous membrane have been assisted by the use of astringent gargles. Probably those most calculated to lessen the secretion from the throat, and remove nausea and other unpleasant sensations occasioned by its relaxation, are composed of alum, zinc, myrrh, &e. When the signs obtained by the air-douche and stetho- scope show unequivocally that the lining of the cavity of the tympanum is thickened, its resolution is assisted by the daily application of an iodine ointment behind the ears, and along the margin of the lower jaw. When the state of ear disease now treated of exists, the occurrence of severe catarrh, or an attack of acute indigestion, may convert it at any time into a more active form, requiring to be treated on the principles
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