Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear, Including a Sketch of Aural Anatomy and Physiology The larger part of the work is essentially a digest of my own experience in the treatment of diseases Of the ear, now ex tending over more than twelve thousand cases for which I have had the personal responsibility. The nomenclature of this book has been accepted quite generally in the profession, and some of the views which were set forth for the first time in the first edition, have been recognized as true, and have taken their place in the great structure of human knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.