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1st Edition in English. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt-stamped central bust of a man and blindstamped decoration, publisher's red tint all edges, engraved plate, text illus. Previous owner's inscription front free endpaper, initials to title page. The backstrip has been professionally restored, with the original gilt lettered cloth laid over matching new cloth. Very good condition. Two important treatises on the ear, published together for the first time by the Sydenham Society (a medical society instituted in 1843 in London with the goal of improving the dissemination of medical text by means of translation). Prof. von Troltsch was a pioneer of modern otology, and made important improvements in the study and treatment of the ear. "The surgical diseases of the ear" offers an overview of his work and his new methods of treatment. Prof. von Helmholtz made significant contributions in several scientific fields, and was a pioneer in the scientific study of human vision and audition. He was very interested in the physics of perception, and his work remains influential. "The mechanism of the ossicles of the ear and membrana tympani" is one of the first of his works to be translated into English. Together, this edition is an important work for those interested in the ear, audition, and the history of science.…