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Excerpt from The Doctor, Vol. 8: A Monthly Review of British and Foreign Medical Practice and Literature; From January to December, 1878 Bilious attacks, commencing with nausea, giddiness, &c may cause sudden loss of hearing, and this is probably the result of the poisoned state of the blood, as it may be also in deafness, concurrent with gout, syphilis, fever, &0. Hereditary syphilis is a common cause of nervous deaf ness. It makes its appearance generally between ten and sixteen years, and is more common in females than in males. It is generally associated with an inflammatory affection of the eyes. In conclusion, true nervous deafness is generally to be diagnosed by the use of the tuning-fork ut cases some times occur in which its indications are uncertain. N 0 case should be considered irremediable until after due trial of remedies. Cases of partial deafness, superadded to disease of the middle ear, are to be relieved, but not cured. And the whole class of nervous deafness, it must be remembered, although an unfavourable one for te medial measures, is rare comparatively to other forms of loss of hearing. 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.