1826.] 
broken in his house;-and at Mr. Yates’s 
house, near the Horsley iron-works, about 
150 panes of glass were broken: about 100 
panes were broken at the iron-works. The 
storm -was aecompanied with very heavy 
tltunder, but no lightning. The crops upon 
which the ice fell are said to be completely 
ruined. 
Lectures on the Ear.—The first of a se- 
ries of lectures on theanatomy, physiology, and 
pathology of the ear, was delivered a few days 
since at the Royal Dispensary for Diseases 
of the Ear, Dean-street, Soho-square, by 
Mr. Curtis, aurist to his Majesty. The lec- 
turer commenced by giving a zoological de- 
finition of man, according to the present 
arrangement of Cuvier, Blumenbach, &c., 
and traced the commencement of society 
from barbarism to civilization: he then 
traced the comparative anatomy of the ear, 
and the gradation of organization in dif- 
ferent animals, shewing its perfection in 
man above all others ; “and passing down 
from the monkey, dog, elephant, and horse, 
to other quadrupeds; thence to birds, rep- 
tiles, and fishes; and so on, to the lowest 
links of the animal chain. On this subject 
he agreed with Haller, the father and foun- 
der of physiology, that the situation and size 
of parts must be learned from man—their 
Parieties. 
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uses and motions must be drawn from 
animils. In entering on the diseases of the 
ear, he observed, that although they were 
noticed by the ancients, even in the time of 
Hippocrates, who flourished 400 years before 
the birth of Christ, yet it was only in a ge- 
neral way ; it was reserved for modern times 
to render it animportant branch of study—a 
knowledge which cannot be learned in the 
closet, but is only to be acquired by daily 
practice and experience, joined with an 
anxious zeal for improvement. The rapid 
progress in every science is now such as to 
augur and hold out the most flattering pros- 
pects that the age of prejudice is past, and 
that the mind is now fully open to the con- 
viction of truth. This improvement he 
strongly instanced in several cases of deaf 
and dumb which had come under his care, 
and been successfully treated ; and he pointed 
out the superiority and necessity of such 
treatment, in early infancy, to the present 
mechanical mode of education. In this lec- 
ture, Mr. Curtis exhibited a curious and ex- 
pensive collection of anatomical preparations 
of the ear, from France and Italy; likewise 
the choicest preparations of Mr. Brooks’s 
late museum, by which he explained the 
causes of disease, with the mode of relief. 
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