Controversy on the artificial tympanum : reprinted from The medical times and gazette, with additions / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Controversy on the artificial tympanum : reprinted from The medical times and gazette, with additions / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    a pamphlet on the subject, by procuring a paper to be inserted in ‘ Chambers’s Journal,’ and by resort- ing to all sorts of schemes to obtain publicity, Mr Toynbee has actually been able to keep his vulcanised india-rubber membrane in competition with that which every medical man but himself admits to be infinitely preferable—namely, cotton-wool. Latterly, however, pro- fessional opinion has been so strongly expressed, not only in this country, but on the Continent, in favour of the cotton ; whilst the substitute of vulcanised membrane has been so generally condemned, that the following “ Supple- mentary Lecture ” seemed necessary to raise its declining fortunes. With what success this effort is likely to be attended, let the reader judge from the testimony appended. 15 Savile row, Jan. 1857.