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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    before me some years ago, in which the other evils I have described were combined with deafness. A well- known stock-broker consulted me for deafness, who for years had never been able to breathe through the nos- trils. The mouth was consequently always slightly open, giving a vacant expression to the countenance, and the voice had assumed that peculiar modification and tone vulgarly, but erroneously, called speaking through the nose, owing to the closure of the windings and hollows of the nasal cavities. The obstruction in this as in other cases arose from a general thickening (the result of repeated inflammation) of the lining mucous membrane of the throat, nose, and ear. Cathe- terism of the Eustachian passages was employed with great success in restoring the hearing, but the relief of the deafness was scarcely more apparent and valued than the comfort afforded to my patient by being enabled once more to breathe through the nose, which had been accomplished by the frequent passage of the Eustachian tube catheter along the floor of the nostrils. On the recovery of this patient’s hearing, he was sup- plied with the elastic nasal probe, presently to be de- scribed, and has continued to use it ever since with as much regularity as his tooth-brush, the one being, he assures me, as indispensable to his comfort as the other. I have since seen and treated many cases, in which deafness appeared to depend on the nasal obstruction to a much greater extent than in this case, where the affection of the mucous membrane extended into the ears. This induced me to seek for the cause which could produce such an effect; and I am come to the con- clusion, that a free state of the nasal passages, as well
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