On Quackery, and on Ear Medicine.

Savage, Henry

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“…Toynbee's conviction was certainly in the same spirit as that expressed in 1839 by Henry Savage, a London lecturer on anatomy: If ignorance respecting those subjects which are made the very turning points of the whole quack machinery, be the great cause of empiricism [… then] that deficiency ought to be supplied by the requisite information. The diffusion of knowledge on many points […] would diminish the number of those who now fall into the hands of the charlatan from ignorance 33 …”

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The making of a career: Joseph Toynbee's first steps in otology

Mudry

2011

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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Joseph Toynbee (1815-1866) is considered one of the fathers of modern otology. He spent his whole life in London, studying and describing the anatomy and pathology of the main diseases of the ear. This paper presents some of the motivations behind Toynbee's decision to specialise in otology, by examining several of his letters published under the signature 'J. T.' in The Lancet between 1838 and 1839. Frustrated by the weakened state of aural surgery in Britain, and by the popularity of several 'quacks aurists' (including John Harrison Curtis, William Wright and Alexander Turnbull), Toynbee insisted that the study of the ear needed to distance itself from quackery and rebuild itself upon a scientific foundation. This paper evaluates several exchanges between Toynbee and Curtis, Wright and Turnbull.

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The making of a career: Joseph Toynbee's first steps in otology

Mudry

2011

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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Pills, Potions and Devices: Treatments for Hearing Loss Advertised in Mid-nineteenth Century British Newspapers

Ross¹,

Lyon²,

Cathcart³

2014

Social History of Medicine

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Curtis’s Cephaloscope: Deafness and the Making of Surgical Authority in London, 1816–1845

Virdi-Dhesi¹

2013

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Aural surgery is a branch of nineteenth-century medicine and surgery providing specialized treatment for ear diseases. During the 1830s, faced with a "popular prejudice" against the curability of deafness as well as intraprofessional rivalries and continuous accusations of quackery, aurists found their surgical authority questioned and their field's value threatened. In an attempt to bolster aural surgery's reputation, in 1841, the aurist John Harrison Curtis (1778-1856) introduced his new diagnostic instrument, the cephaloscope, which could not only improve diagnosis but also provide approaches for regulating aural knowledge, thus strengthening aural surgery's authority. This article examines the motives underlying Curtis's introduction of the cephaloscope and the meanings it held for the occupational group at large.

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On Quackery, and on Ear Medicine.

Cited by 3 publications

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The making of a career: Joseph Toynbee's first steps in otology

The making of a career: Joseph Toynbee's first steps in otology

Pills, Potions and Devices: Treatments for Hearing Loss Advertised in Mid-nineteenth Century British Newspapers

Curtis’s Cephaloscope: Deafness and the Making of Surgical Authority in London, 1816–1845

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