On a new mode of treating deafness when attended by partial or entire loss of the membrana tympani, associated or not with discharge from the ear / by James Yearsley.
- James Yearsley
- Date:
- 1848]
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Credit: On a new mode of treating deafness when attended by partial or entire loss of the membrana tympani, associated or not with discharge from the ear / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![metronome, and both Mr. Maskelyne and myself con¬ versed with him without any difficulty. Paragraphs from the newspapers were read to him from the oppo¬ site end of the room, and were heard distinctly. The remedy was removed, and with it all the ad¬ vantages to hearing as above detailed. He had come to town only for the day. It was useless, therefore, to reapply it, but it was arranged that he should obtain leave of absence to come asrain. and learn the art of applying it himself, which he has now done, and the experiment has been this day (July 31st) repeated with the same remarkable effects. In a week or ten days, he will himself be master of the remedy. [Three other cases are cited from the communications of his correspondents, testifying, equally as the fore¬ going, to the success of his new plan of treatment; and Mr. Yearsley then goes on to remark:—[_Ed. Lancet.] I trust that enough has now been quoted to sub¬ stantiate that which I have myself written, in respect to the singular fact which it has been my happiness to observe and reduce to practice. And now it remains to be considered how far it may be in our power, and by what means we can extend the range of its applicability and usefulness, in the discussion of which subject I propose to make some remarks in my next paper, on Artificial Perforation of the Membrana Tympani.* * This paper appeared in the Lancet, Aug. 19.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30380029_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
