VIII. Observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the membrana tympani of the ear. By Mr. Astley Cooper. In a letter to Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. by whom some remarks are added

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Dear Sir, At the time you were engaged in the investigation of the structure and uses of the membrana tympani, you mentioned a wish to ascertain the effect a rupture of that membrane would have upon hearing. I now send you some observations on that subject, which, if you think them of sufficient importance, you will do me the honour of presenting to the Royal Society. I am, &c. Astley Cooper. Anatomists have endeavoured to ascertain, by experiments on quadrupeds, the loss of power which the organ of hearing would sustain by perforating the membrana tympani: dogs have been made the subject of these trials ; but the results have been neither clear nor satisfactory, and they accord but little with the phaenomena I am about to relate.

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