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ito the Academy of Sciences, by Monfieur Guyot 
but the author having never pradlifed it, he wanted 
the recommendation of fafts to fupport and "enforce 
cable Zf as impraai- 
I firft introduced my probe, a little bent at the 
end, through the nofe, into the tubes of feveral dead 
lubjeas ; and, having thereby acquired a facility, I 
did the lame on a perfon that was very deaf, and on 
whom all other means had proved inefftaual : no 
looner had I withdrawn the probe, than he faid, he 
could hear much better. This fuccefs excited my 
further endeavours, fo that I had pipes of different 
fizes adapted to a fynnge, and have fince injeded the 
meatus internus in the following manner, with fuc- 
The pipe is made of filver, about the fize and 
length of a common probe, and a little bent at the 
end : this being fixed to an ivory fyringe, full of li- 
quor (tox. a little mel rofarum in warm water), 
mull be introduced between the ala and feptum of 
the nofe, with its convexity towards the upper part 
^ 53- Bcfides, Monfieur Guvot 
propofed doing it by the mouth, which is quite impolTible, as eli 
tiemly appears to any one that will give himfelf the trouble to ex 
n hlTa "■ °f 'his, Monfieur Petit (who has latelv 
pubhlhed a new edition of Palphin’s anatomy) propofed, a“d that 
learned and fkilful anatomift Mr. Tohn DoucriVfirft a r 
'he poffibihty of, paffing the probf.l? r.tZu h“ no“he 
mvllf ndehf a f '■'i 1 "> I scknowleee 
myfdf indebted for the hint, by which I was incited to make trid 
on .the living, of an operation of fo much importance to mankind 
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