A report upon deafness, when resulting from diseases of the Eustachian passages : with the modern methods of cure : being a paper read to the Liverpool Medical Association, on the 19th December, 1839 / by Hugh Neill.

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1840
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Credit: A report upon deafness, when resulting from diseases of the Eustachian passages : with the modern methods of cure : being a paper read to the Liverpool Medical Association, on the 19th December, 1839 / by Hugh Neill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Accidents are reported to have occurred, accidents:— hasty ‘opi- and inquests have been held upon the bodies of patients, said to have received their death- blow from the air-douche. Opinions also have been advanced by some members of the profession, and much speculative reasoning has been brought into play, to account for the fact of sudden death occurring in mis- managed cases. Some blow hot, as amusingly as others literally blow cold. In respect of an awkward case in London, an eminent Surgeon, as his conjectural opinion upon the fact of a sudden death under unprecedented circumstances, overcools the twigs of the Great Sympathetic, and thereby causes the heart’s action to cease [ ! ] and thus, from a hasty theory, encourages prejudices and raises fears which the practicability and suc- cess of the operation, in the hands of the competent, testify to be as groundless and fanciful as they are irrelevant. The occurrence which was necessarily brought before the public was shortly as fol- lows. A patient of a doctor in London had been operated upon, by the doctor’s assistant,
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