The morning times., 1896-10-18
HOW DEAFNESS IS CAUSED.
Why Doctors in the Past Have
Failed to Cure.
The Mccoy Discovery Described-why
1t Invariably Restores Lost Hear.
tng-1he Length Of Time Required
for a Cure. .

btSCi ny
1t Invariably Restores Lost Hear
tng-The Length Of Time Required
for a Cure. :
What is necessary for the people TO know
In regard to ear trouble is, INST, that deaf
ness and roaring and buzZing sounds heard
III the head come from a disease that begins
with the head ana back part Of the throat
They must understand thatthe disease that
causes these conditions is situated deep
down and back OF the ear drum, ard that.
no Treatment that is applied from the out
side can reach il or ever cure deafness or
rid the patent Of the annoying sounds
that ACCOMPANY this condition.
Anything that interteIcs with the health
and functions OF the tube that leads to the
drum from the outer air; anything that in
tcrfcrcS with the free passage Of rthrough
the tube that leads from he throat to the
drum; anything that iLterIeres with the
drum itself, or anything that is detrime II.
tai to the nerves OF the ear, causes impair
neut of the hearing. deafness or noses
heard In the head.
Acute Hearing
is only possible where the ear drum stands
up StTa"ht ana has a free current of air
ever passing III front OF il and ever press
ing hack of il.
The little tube which leads tn the ear
from the throat is lined with a sort Of
yelvety structure called mucous mem brane.
This l. Il continuation Of the mucous mem
branc lining the throat. When disease of
any sort has attacked the mucous mem
branc Of The throat il is liable to extend
intothc Eustachiantuba and ZIP intothe ear.
Ii is like this: \ cold is contracted and
neglected, other colds are taken, the throdJ
becomes sore and inflamed, and the in-
rlammation is aggravated by particles of
dust and germs from the air: thus condition
.Fss as1 hl
tube tlrat leads TO the ear.
And inflammation that affects the lining
Of the EuStaciiantube calSsS the membrane
to swell and swell, until finally the two
sides come together, ana the tube bee ONES
entirely blocked. When such is the case
deafness always results. With this cOndi-
tiun little ulcers sometimes form in the dis
eased membrane, and the discharge from
the ulcers not being able to escape into the
throat, ON aCcO INT OF the obstruction due 10
the swollen mucuus membrane, presses
against an in time rupturcs the drum, then
runs cut through the o Iter ear, causing tie
disasrCeable condition known as
DIscharging Ears.
In nv experience | do not remembers a
single case of deafness that had been pres
ent for any length OF time that ever got we'll
of itself. The tendency of deafness is al
WayS tn get worse, and the reason il gets
worse j. that the Eustachan tubes become
more and more tightly closed as the in
flammaJion extends further along the
membrane which lines them. In some
cases only one ear will be affected by
deafness. i'll Others both ears are involved
The people do not understand why it is
that the doctors fail TO cure catarrh after it
has extended into the ears and caused deaf
ness. The reason is an extremely simple
one. The GoCtorS have not been able to
devise Il treatment that would reach and
cure the disease in the deep p-scatcd rccesses
of the ear. Unless tile disease is reached
directly and cured the deafness and noises
IN the ears are never removed. Taking
medicine alone will not cure it any mere
than taking medicine Will remove n cinder
from the eye or 4 thorn from the hand.
The fact is that no treatment was ever
discovered that did reach the seat of
deafness and so cured IL until made the
discovery that has worked such a revolu-
ton in the treatment OF ear diseases-a
discovery that has already
Given Hack Hundreds Their Lost
Hearing.
The reason this treatment cures is that
IL reaches the disease; that it reaches it
from within, and drives it out and ban
iSheS it,
This treatment cures because it is heal
ing aud soothing and quieting, and be-
cause in removing the disease it does away
with the swelling aud Inflammation that
block the tube in the ear and prevent the
entrance OF air behind the ear-drum. The
new treatment of deafness is simply a
matter of science, coupled with the laws
of the bIghcr mechanics, combined with
commur, ordinary, everyday sense.
or course there are cases in which the
drums of the ears are destroyed and where
the nerves OF the ear are dead, and in such
cases cures are not possible under any
plan OF treatment. SUCH cases, however
are rare.
/ have found the
Length of Time 1t Takes
to cure deafness varies all the way from
one week to six months, but would not
pronounce 4 case hopeless until the treat
ment had been continued faithfully over a
period as long as year
A very peculiar thing in the treatment
of deafness is that the hearing is rarely
restored Il little at a time, but that when
the cure does come during course of
tratmcnt il will be noticed that it returns
suddenly. All at once the patient notices
that he can hear as well as he ever could
and does not know just when the hearing
returned The reason for this is simple,
for no hearing is improved until the Eusta
chan tube opens up so that the air can pa SIS
into IL and press on the drum, and the mo-
ment this occurs the hearing is restored
The new treatment opens the tube as fast
as IL is brought in contact with the disease
that caused 1T to close up, and during the
treatment ii will be found that the part
of the tube nearest the throat will be
opened, while that part further away Still
remains closed but as the treatment con
tinucs more and more of the tube will be
opened until finally the entire obstruc
tiop will te removed, and then the
hearing is restored like 4 flash.
j. CRESAP Mccoy, MD.
washington, d. c. July l, 1896.