Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1272

JOHN CUNNINGHAM SAUNDERS (1773-1810) The anatomy of the human ear. Printed for Richard Phillips by J. M'Creery 1806 [4] 60 pp., 4 plates. 42.2 cm.

After a six year apprenticeship to a surgeon in Barnstaple, Saunders went to London where he studied at St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals. He became demonstrator of anatomy at St. Thomas' and surgeon to the London Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and the Ear and was a founder of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. This treatise on the anatomy of the ear also includes a section on diseases of the ear. In that section, Saunders recommends incising the tympanic membrane in cases of acute middle ear suppuration. He was one of the earliest individuals to recommend that procedure.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3362