Excerpt from Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia, as Affecting the Head and Ear Among the causes and complications of deafness, none are more common than gout, and rheumatism, and those disturbances of the nervous system which issue in local pain without any palpable change of structure. And the Author of the following pages is not unwilling to confess, that, greatly to his surprise, he has found that many cases of deafness will recover, as it were, spontaneously, when an ap propriate treatment of the existing complication, (as it has appeared to be, although it is in reality the constitutional cause), has been systematically adopted and perseveringly followed out. 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.