A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear...

Like Itard, John Harrison Curtis had no formal medical training, yet he did not gain the same level of mastery as Itard. But despite his shortcomings, he had achievements. He invented the prototype of the telescopic hearing trumpet, shown on the frontispiece of this work. This hearing trumpet was a success as it was so convenient for the pocket. He also used an acoustic chair, even though a similar one had been built earlier. Curtis believed, as did others, in the importance of hearing through the Eustachian tube and he announced his revolutionary two aperture trumpet, in which one opening was inserted in the ear and the other in the mouth so that sounds were received by both structures at the same time.

Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860

London : Underwood

1823 (3rd Edition)

Anatomy, Comparative
Ear -- anatomy & histology
Ear Diseases
Ear -- physiology

Given by Dr. Dennis G. Pappas, Sr.; belongs to the Dennis G. Pappas, Sr. Otolaryngology Collection, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, UAB Libraries, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Book: xxxv, 202 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

English