CHAPTER IX 



M. Meniere and Paris Establishment of Ear Institute 

 Fresh water animalculae Memoir in the Journal of 

 Microscopical Science Birth and death of our first 

 child Birth of other daughters and of a son 

 Contributions to the London Quarterly Journeys to 

 Switzerland with Mr. John Fernley Removal to 

 Fallowfield Construction of garden Family excursion 

 through Switzerland Illness and death of my wife. 



LEAVING now the college and its progress for awhile, 

 I should like to glance at one or two incidents 

 which were of importance to me. During the early 

 college days I suffered from an attack of abscesses 

 of the glands of one of my ears. This was a 

 branch of surgery on which I had never received 

 any instruction; and on consulting some of the 

 leading surgeons of the town I discovered they 

 knew no more of the matter than I did. I resolved 

 to take some steps by which I could become better 

 acquainted with aural diseases. One of the most 

 eminent of European aural surgeons of those days 

 was Mons. Meniere of Paris, surgeon to the cele- 

 brated Deaf and Dumb Hospital in the Rue de 

 St. Jaques. Being acquainted with Mons. Adolphe 



