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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    CHAPTER ILI. AN OUTLINE OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES OF THE EAR PRODUCING DEAFNESS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. Ir has been remarked by an eminent writer, with not less of propriety than elegance, that, “ after reviewing the different parts of the organ of hearing successively, and after inspecting it as a whole, we may not inaptly compare it to an edifice consisting of several apart- ments, each fashioned after a particular manner, and intended for a distinct purpose. The external part may be likened to the portals of the edifice at which the visitors are collected previously to their entry, and after they have been there assembled and arranged, they are led across the antechamber by certain conduc- tors placed there for that purpose; by these the visitors are ushered into the presence-chamber, inclosed within the winding recesses of the labyrinth, and as they are successively introduced, they register on the tablet of the memory their degrees, their titles, and their pro- perties.” In no part of the human economy is there found a nicer adaptation of different parts to each other than in the ear, both as regards the performance of the proper office of each individual structure, and the con- joint action of the whole organ in fulfilling the im- portant office of audition, each division of the com- plex apparatus not merely performing its own allotted share of duty, but also exerting an important influence on those parts with which it is in apposition or relation.
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