Controversy on the artificial tympanum / by James Yearsley.

  • James Yearsley
Date:
1858
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Credit: Controversy on the artificial tympanum / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. It may be said that I am not consulting the dignity of my Profession in giving additional currency to the following con¬ troversy. In the words of my adversary, at page 22, I reply, that “I consult and advance the honour and dignity of my Profession by using every means which shall best serve to advance what is high and right, and put a stop to what is low and wrong ; ” but if this excuse be not admitted, then I say that the time has arrived when it becomes my duty, as a pioneer of progress in my Art, to notice the efforts of a contemporary to decry and undermine the valuable addi¬ tions which of late years have been made to the therapeu¬ tics of Aural Surgery in this country, chiehy through my instrumentality. So long as the name of Toynbee was unknown, his attacks were unworthy of comment; but now that, by dint of advertising, by interminable lectures (so called), by false theories addressed to scientific societies,
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