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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    poverty, nay, their most vaunted remedies could not be applied to the ear without inflicting positive injury. I trust I have said enough to show the absurdity of the indiscriminate syringing and the application of acrid ear-drops, irritating acoustic oils, and ointments, which were almost the sole local means of treatment among the race of aurists previous to the first promulgation of my views. If I had only done this I should rest satis- fied that I had not written in vain. It is lamentable to think that a legitimate branch of medical science should have been thus left to unquali- fied pretenders, whose sole hold upon the public con- sisted, not in the benefits they could confer, but in reiterated advertisement and self-laudation. Altogether to put down aural or any other quackery, seems an impossibility, but I believe I have assisted in changing the modes of practice formerly in vogue, and in rendering it impossible for any man by ordinary or extraordinary means to gain in future a reputation in aural medicine and surgery, or to acquire in any de- gree the confidence of the medical profession, without the possession of a competent knowledge of the subject. Some, there are, who object to the division and sub- division of the profession, but as long as subdivisions are made, no one can doubt but that the ear and its diseases are pre-eminently deserving of special atten- tion. It is not improbable that at some future day, when the subject has been improved by increased knowledge of its pathology and increased power over the diseases of the ear, and when medical and surgical science generally has advanced nearer to perfection, all the subjects which have now separated themselves into different branches of the profession, will again unite, so as to form one comprehensive science, and it appears to
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