Thoughts on the present state of the practice in disorders of the eye and ear : To which is added, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, particularly to those residing in the ... metropolis ... To which ... are annexed, singular cases, authentic and remarkable cures, lately performed in London, in the diseases of those organs / [James Graham].

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794
Date:
1775
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Credit: Thoughts on the present state of the practice in disorders of the eye and ear : To which is added, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, particularly to those residing in the ... metropolis ... To which ... are annexed, singular cases, authentic and remarkable cures, lately performed in London, in the diseases of those organs / [James Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2° ] obligingly fatlsfy any one, in regard to the particulars of his cafe, who will call at his houfe at Smithfield-Bars. Mrs. AGNES REN WICK, at Mr. John Becket’s, little Pultney- Street, St. Ann’s, was affli&ed with total lofs of hearing in both ears, for ilear twenty years—(he was lo exceedingly deaf as not to hear the rattle of carriages when dole upon her, and lometimes not even thunder, or the loud- eft church-bells; and trumpets in her cafe were ufelefs. In this lonely—this diimal and truly pitiable condition (he mopp’d on gloomy and deje&ed, till accidentally Hie came under Dr. Graham’s care—Mrs. Renwick had not the lead hopes of recovering her hearing for being fo long and fo to¬ tally deaf, as to be cut off from all fociety with the world except by ligns and tokens, reafon and hope had long been ablorbed in the pallive refignation of a religious mind—indeed the diforder feemed to be heredi¬ tary; for her grand-father, mother, and brother had all laboured under the fame deprefling vifitation. In lefs than three months however, under thefe complicated and highly aggravated circuaiftances, fhe was reftored by the powerful medicines and applications prefcribed and applied by Dr. Graham, to the exceeding bleffednefs of hearing tolerably well and even in both ears—and that too without undergoing any very painful manu¬ al or medicinal application, or a day’s confinement. All who knew Mrs. Renwick are filled with aftonifhment—and the amazement of fome who knew her at the word, is not to be defcribed. Thus advanced as it were to anew- Hate of exiftence—reftored to fociety-^—and gratified with a pleafing and iucceflive train of lweet ideas which had long been fhut out, fhe is now, comparatively, one of the happieft of all his Majefty’s fubjefts. JOSEPH NEEDHAM, at the London Hofpital, where he has lived 2 fervant near r6 years, loft entirely his left eye many years ago by the unfidlfulnefs of an itinerant Englifh operator, at prefent advertising in this Metropolis. His right eye tho’ dileafed, became, confequently, doubly precious. Indeed, for almoft thirty years he has been quite incapable of any bufinefs that required good fight. At different times he tried diffe¬ rent pra<5litioners; and has been a patient at feveral hofpitals: but in all thefe applications he received very little benefit. Dr. Graham, moft un¬ willingly, was prevailed*upon by the poor man himfelf, to admit him a pa- tient-^-his cale was moft hopelefs: it was of the gutta ferena kind; the pupil motionlefs an-d a para’yfts of the nerves arid mufcles of the whole eye, internally as well as externally; in truth, the whole fyftem of nerves was confiderably affedled. Mr. Needham had not been long under the Do&or’s care till he was very fenfible of a confiderable alteration for the better. He now is much ftronger in his nerves, has a better and more conftant flow of Ipirits, t-he pupil of his eyemove3, and he can diftin- gui(h obje&s more clearly and at a greater djftance than he had done for many years; and is now no longer under the terrible apprehenfion of to¬ tal blindnefs. Dr. Graham mentions this with peculiar pleafure having a fincere affection for the man, as a very honeft, and uncommonly induf- trious member of the community. THOMAS NAILER, apprentice to Mr. Hornby N°. 7. Talbot- Court, Grace-Church-Street, having been troubled with a vaft degree of hardnefs of hearing for about 3 years, and that too accompanied with noife and an uneafy fenfation, applied to Dr. Graham in Ball-Mall, and in a fhort time was freed fiom the noife, &c. and reftored to diftaid heai» irig in both cars, which, fortunately, he ftiil retains.