On conservative aural surgery / by James Patterson Cassells.

  • Cassells, James Patterson, 1837-1884.
Date:
1876
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Credit: On conservative aural surgery / by James Patterson Cassells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have adopted it for the purpose recommended by the gifted Saun¬ ders, to whom I have already drawn attention. 1865, the operation was revived by Professor Schwartze, of . ■ the treatment of subacute mucous katarrh of the tympanum in 01 dei to give exit to the mucus lying in the cavity of the tym¬ panum. Shortly after this, it found favour, and was adopted for a similar purpose, by Yon Troltsch in Germany, Professor Politzer in Vienna, and lastly by our own distinguished Otologist, Hinton. Tib now, however, no one has insisted upon the value of this opeiation as. a conservative measure; indeed, as the representative of conservative aural, surgery; nor has any previous writer pointed out, as is done in this paper, the stages of scarlatinal ear disease m which it manifests its preservative effects. llie tiue aims and real strength of aural surgery, whether repiesented by simple incision of congested tissue, or the more pretentious operation whose history I have just related, are to prevent and to conserve. PRINTED BY OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH.
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