Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson.

  • Wakley, Thomas, 1795-1862.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Clinical reports on the use of glycerine in the treatment of certain forms of deafness / by Thomas Wakley ; edited by W. Tindal Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ment, in consequence of illness on the part of the patient. Experience of the effects of glycerine, since the cases reported, induce me to believe that I have claimed much less credit for that agent than its merits deserve. In several cases of deafness of very long standing, and in which the aural pas- sage and tympanum exhibited a white, polished appearance, and the external meatus had become inelastic, hard, and horny, and entirely deprived of its natural functions, the glycerine, patiently applied, daily, has proved of the utmost advantage, by restoring the parts to their natural condition, and by reproducing the ceruminous secretion of the organs.