Excerpt from A Practical Handbook of the Diseases of the Ear: For Senior Students Practitioners Recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Diseases of the Ear, and the greater attention paid to the subject by the senior student of Medicine and by the general practitioner, appear to the authors to justify the production of a Practical Handbook in which these various advances are recorded. In the following pages special attention has been directed to emphasising the value of the application of pathological data shorn as far as possible of technicalities - to accurate diagnosis and efficient treatment, and to the importance of co-operation between the practical surgeon and the clinical pathologist. A short chapter upon those diseases of the nasal cavities which have a special bearing upon diseases of the ear has been added. No attempt has, however, been made to make this an exhaustive account of diseases of the nose. It has been inserted in order to draw the reader's attention to the important interdependence of aural and nasal lesions. While gratefully acknowledging the valuable assistance derived from a careful study of the now extensive literature devoted to diseases of the ear, the authors have endeavoured to record the results of their own practical experience. 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.