Macleod Yearsley, F.R.C.S.
Extract from an abstract of a post-graduate lecture published in The Clinical Journal, 11 May 1927.
| . . . What are the most recent advances which help the otologist to deal with his chief bugbear, chronic deafness? Modern knowledge concerning the teeth, intestinal toxins and toxins from other sources, treatment by vaccines, increased efficiency in the management of scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and other exanthemata, the efficient prevention and treatment of syphilis and tubercle, all have an important bearing upon the prevention and modification of causes leading to conditions which make for chronic deafness. Health teaching in its widest sense, by which I do not mean the dissemination of age-old platitudes by more or less popular medical writers in the daily press, but the unselfish work of those who have daily opportunity of teaching the fundamental principles of self-control in health matters, has immense potentialities. In connection with this subject, I would like to draw attention to the work of a layman, Matthias Alexander, on the right use of our bodies, as laid down in his book Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual. From personal experience of his methods I can speak of the benefit to general health and capacity for work that result thereby. |
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