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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Surely not! I shall make no pretensions to science—but I will use it, and in the way many of you have witnessed, and well know, without fear, dread, or pain to the patient. If the catheter be properly introduced, there is nothing to fear. This is the necessary guarantee to safety. It is a sine qua non. Select notes from my memorandum-book will illustrate the successful use of the air- press. To economise time, I shall give the points as tersely as possible. Mr. Nairne, a merchant of this town,OASES. writes as follows :— “ Rumford Place, Liverpool. “ It is now above eighteen years since “ I became totally cleaf in the right ear, “ from exposure to cold. In less than a “ year after, I visited Mr. ” [the most notorious London aurist,] “ whose opinion “ it was that it could only be removed by “ an operation so painful and dangerous, “with a probability of injuring the other “ ear, [ ! ] that he would not recommend “ anything being done. In consequence of
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