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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1121, 12 August 1882, Page 2

Meßßra Graham, Pitt, ABennatl offorodfor >alo to-day at tho Albion Club Htablo«, th* Woll-known trotting alalljon " Quloktilver.” Owing hownvor, to th« wot and unpleuant weather there wa« a had attendance, end “ Quicksilver " and other animals were with, drawn from sale to await a better market.

Dr. Boucheron lately made a communication fo the medical Section of of the Paris Academy, in which he ex, pressed an opinion that the co-oxietent state of deafness and dumbness «o often observed is owing to the compression of the acoustic nerve. This compression is the result of the vaoium existing in the cavity tympanum. This vaoium causes the external air to press on the membigirw, and thus on the ossioula, and finally on the liquid of the labyrinth and the nerve. By frequent insufflation into the Eustaeheaq tube, M. Boucheron succeeds in deg., troying the vacuum, and thereby thq pressure on the nerve, and deafness is cured. M, Boucheron has restored in some eases, to the apparently deaf and dumb, and even idiots, the faculty of hearing aud of speech.—" British Medical Journal."