Excerpt from Deafness and Diseases of the Ear: The Causes and Treatment The late Mr. Toynbee relates a case of a sailor who pro bably lost his left auricle 'by a summary process of lynch law, prevalent in California for the punishment of thieves. This man, wishing to return to the country, applied to Mr. Toynbee to aid him in obtaining an artificial substitute. Mr. Toynbee failed to detect the slightest difference in the hearing power of either ear. But it can hardly be supposed that this is the isolated instance in which ...
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Excerpt from Deafness and Diseases of the Ear: The Causes and Treatment The late Mr. Toynbee relates a case of a sailor who pro bably lost his left auricle 'by a summary process of lynch law, prevalent in California for the punishment of thieves. This man, wishing to return to the country, applied to Mr. Toynbee to aid him in obtaining an artificial substitute. Mr. Toynbee failed to detect the slightest difference in the hearing power of either ear. But it can hardly be supposed that this is the isolated instance in which nature has given a useless appendage to the human structure; a pre-conceived idea requires but slender proof to satisfy the mind of its correct ness, and the authors who have advanced this opinion, in the detail of the cases they give, evid'ently entered on the different tests employed with opinions very much biassed. Valsalva's remark concerning the membrane of the tympanum, applies, though in a less degree, to the auricle. He says that mem brane is not essentially necessary to hearing, but only to perfect hearing, The auricle is covered by a continuation of the common integuments, and is pierced by numerous ducts of sebaceous follicles, particularly in the groove formed by its junction with the scalp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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