Excerpt from The Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol. 44: For the Glasgow and Rest of Scotland Medical Association; July to December, 1895 There is no panacea for ear disease. The appropriate treatment can only be indicated by a careful inspection and correct knowledge of the diseased organ, and there can be no justification of random attempts at treatment made entirely in the dark. Medical men have been inclined in the past to minimise the gravity of ear affections, owing to their want of familiarity with the methods of examination and treatment. In the case of a child, parents have been advised to leave the suppuration to nature, and the child will outgrow it, and other subterfuges, equally futile, have been employed in regard to adults. Practitioners have dealt with this class of diseases, in a manner that savours of quackery or empiricism, by pre scribing advice and nostrums which they would never think, of giving for similar forms of disease in any other organ of the body. This unfortunate circumstance has contributed very much to the neglect of ear diseases, and to the production of the large proportion of chronic and incurable cases. 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.