A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EAR. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Introductory Remarks on Aural Surgery.-Former means of diagnosis, and general knowledge of the subject.-Early History of the Art.-Writings of the Ancients from Hippocrates to Galen.-Discoveries of the Anatomists of the fifteenth century.-Irish Translations.—Mercurialis.-Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.-Heurnius.—Introduction of the Speculum by Fabricius.-Bonet and Du Verney.-Kennedy.—Eustachian Catheterism by Guyot.-English Aurists: Cleland and Wathan.-Leschevin.— Degravers.-Valsalva and Cassebohm.-Sims and the London Medical Society.— Graham and Elliott.—Quacks and Quackery.-Perforation of Mastoid Process.-Cheselden.-Perforation of the Membrana Tympani by Sir A. Cooper.—Saunders. -Curtis and his followers; Stephenson, Williams, Wright, Webster, Hepworth, and Gardner.-Buchanan, Earle, Tod, Swan and Caswell.-The French School: Laennec, Itard, and Deleau.-The German School: Kramer, Schmalz, Lincke, and Frank.— The Modern English School: Toynbee, Pilcher, Wharton Jones, Williams, Yearsley, Harvey, Dufton, and Wakeley.-Turnbull and his Reviewers.-Requisites for an Aural Surgeon, and what Aural Surgery can effect. IN the following Treatise I purpose writing, for the information of practitioners and students in medicine, the history, symptoms, causes, mode of treatment, and results of the most frequent and remarkable diseases of the Ear. With respect to my competency to this task, I have but to remark, that I have had very ample opportunities for studying these diseases during the last ten years in an extensive practice, and in the management of a large public institution in Dublin, for a long time the only one of the kind open to the student where clinical and practical instruction in Aural Surgery was delivered in Great Britain. B |