A Clinical manual of the diseases of the earLippincott, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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abscess acute affection aged air douche apparatus applied astringent attack auditory canal auditory nerve auricle brana tympani catarrh catheter cause cells chronic closed cochlea Corti's cure deaf and dumb deaf mutes deafness diagnosis discharge disease employed Eustachian catheter Eustachian tube examination external ear external meatus fenestra fever fibres fluid forceps foreign bodies head heard hearing improved inches inflammation injection instrument KOLBE labyrinth lamina left ear malleus mastoid process means Medical membrana tympani middle ear mirror mucous membrane mucus muscles nasal nervous deafness nitrate of silver noises opening orifice osseous otitis otitis interna otitis media pain patient perforation pharynx Politzer Politzer's polypus portion posterior pupils purulent removed result rhinoscopic right ear Roosa seen semicircular canals side solution sound speculum stapes surface symptoms syringe temporal bone tinnitus tion tissue tonsils Toynbee treatment Tröltsch tumor tuning-fork tympanic cavity tympanum ulceration vibrations warm watch
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Página 382 - And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech ; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
Página 396 - Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb ; and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.
Página 382 - And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue ; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Página 41 - Nothing can be more surprising,' writes Sir John Herschel, in reference to this subject, ' than to see two persons, neither of them deaf, the one complaining of the penetrating shrillness of a sound, while the other maintains there is no sound at all.
Página 42 - I suppose, the Eustachian tube, and restored, with the quickness of magic, the innumerable murmurs which filled the air around me. Light, like sound, is excited by pulses or waves ; and lights of different colors, like sounds of different pitch, are excited by different rates of vibration. But in its width of perception the ear exceedingly transcends the eye ; for while the former ranges over eleven octaves, but little more than a single octave is possible to the latter. The quickest vibrations which...
Página 37 - Within the ears of men, and without their knowledge or contrivance, this lute of three thousand strings (according to Kolliker, this is the number of fibres in Corti's organ) has existed for ages, accepting the music of the outer world, and rendering it fit for reception by the brain. Each musical tremor which falls upon this organ selects from the stretched fibres the one appropriate to its own pitch, and throws it into unisonant vibration.
Página 41 - The suddenness of the transition,' writes Wollaston, ' from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprise which renders an experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession, as the sounds approach and pass the limits of their bearing. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph are often compelled, in their turn, to acknowledge...
Página 37 - Finally, there is in the labyrinth a wonderful organ, discovered by the Marchese Corti, which is to all appearance a musical instrument, with its chords so stretched as to accept vibrations of different periods, and transmit them to the nerve filaments which traverse the organ. Within the ears of men, and without...
Página 420 - Netherlands, and which he was kind enough to send to me, he says : " The object to be attained is, to render possible the admission of the deaf-mute into society by teaching him to see, that is, to understand, the movements of the lips, and to speak in his turn. To attain this end, the act of seeing or comprehending and of speaking must be made the exclusive principle of instruction, and neither the fingeralphabet nor the language of...
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