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WATHEN, Jonathan (1728 – 1808)

1728 – 1808

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1756 CE

#3356

A method proposed to restore the hearing, when injured from an obstruction of the tuba Eustachiana.

Wathen condemned Guyot’s method of Eustachian catheterization, and suggested a method of relieving catarrhal deafness by means of injections into the Eustachian tube through a catheter passed into the nose. Wath…