from The Medical Adviser and Guide to Health and Long Life (1824):
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I’m happy to announce that I signed a contract with University of Chicago Press to publish my first book, Hearing Happiness: Fakes, Frauds, and Fads in Deafness Cures. The book explores the history of therapeutic choices and negotiations respecting “deafness cures,” including Eustachian tube catheterization, artificial eardrums, electrical apparatuses, the fenestration operation, and an abundance… Continue Reading
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From the Hands of Quacks 
So what’s taking you so long? Make the damn stuff and test it out!
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Well, it’s how to avoid deafness. I don’t think it’ll work if you already “have it.” Seb, YOU should test it out 😀
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Jai, if you make the stuff, I will totally be your test subject.
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Note to self. Find the stuff.
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Would you be my guinea pig and test it out on yourself .. I could really use a good laugh.
where did you find this?
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never mind the last question. I just noticed it.
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