. The Journal of laryngology and otology. Ear Hospital, for Diseases of theEar, in 1841, when the late Queen Victoria l)ecame its patron. Curtiswas succeeded about the year 1845 by William Harvev, who died ofcarbuncle in December, 1876. This hospital can, therefore, lay claim tobeing the oldest special hospital in existence. Curtis published a treatiseon the physiology and pathology of the ear in 1836. In 1832 Henry Jones Shrapnell first described, in the Medical Gazetie,that part of the tympanic membrane wliich is known bv his that date and 1823 the most noteworthy production of
. The Journal of laryngology and otology. Ear Hospital, for Diseases of theEar, in 1841, when the late Queen Victoria l)ecame its patron. Curtiswas succeeded about the year 1845 by William Harvev, who died ofcarbuncle in December, 1876. This hospital can, therefore, lay claim tobeing the oldest special hospital in existence. Curtis published a treatiseon the physiology and pathology of the ear in 1836. In 1832 Henry Jones Shrapnell first described, in the Medical Gazetie,that part of the tympanic membrane wliich is known bv his that date and 1823 the most noteworthy production of Britisliotology was a book upon diseases of the ear, published bv ThomasBuchanan, of Hull. This surgeon published four works. Between 1836 and 1839 T. Wliarton Jones contributed a veryvaluable monograph upon the ear to The C\H-]()pa?diaof Anatomv andPhysiology (edited by Robert B. Todd), an<l in 1839 Joseph WiHiamswon a gold medal from the University of E(linl)urgh for his monograph onthe anatomy, physiology and patliology of the \VlI.])E. UlNlOJJ. TolNBKl-; Angmt. 1913.] Rhinology, and Otology. B99 The early Victorian period, iiito which we have now entered, was,however, tlie dawn of molern British otology, and Grunert, in a letter tothe Ltncef (1900, ii, p. 18?6), aekuowledges that the English otologistswere the first to promote the study of otology on a sound scientific least six great names must endure as inseparable from the rise andgrowth of British otology—William Harvey, James Hinton, GeorgePilcher, Joseph Toynl)ee, William Wilde, and James Yearsley—whilst itwould be invidious to mention those who, still living, have advanced thework to its present state. To these six surgeons I propose to devotesome detail. Of William Harvey I have been uual)le to find anyobituary notice, save a short paragraph noting his death in the Lancet of1876. His name is not to be found in the Dictionary of NationalBiography, save in a note, to be referred to later, on Pilc
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