Progress in the amelioration of certain forms of deafness and impaired hearing / by J.C. Gordon.

  • Gordon, Joseph Claybaugh, 1842-1903.
Date:
1894
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    had fine weather, and he kept up the exercise, and his hearing improved.' Then it dropped a little; and then improved again, the final record indicating considerable improvement in one ear and very slight gain in the other. [A Voice: Hearing by the audiometer; how about the hear- ing as tested by the voice?] [Dr. Gordon: The hearing for the voice became better from time to time; but we cannot always tell from the audiometer. I may say that when this young man began he was not able to hear the ticking of the clock in his room. Afterward he heard his clock constantly. In another case, a young man came to me one day in a state of excitement, and said that at four o'clock he was out on the common, and felt a shock in his ears. This came four times. He happened to look at the tower-clock and it was four o'clock ! At five o'clock he felt or heard it strike five times, and ever since that he has been getting a little enjoyment from noticing the strokes of the tower-clock.] I should like very much to have spoken of improvement in hearing in cases originally, apparently, beyond hope, through patient and persistent drill with the human voice as prafliced by Mr. Gillespie, of Nebraska, for the last ten years or more. The following statement shows what has been accomplished in one school in Germany within the last year under Dr. Urbantschitsch. There were sixty cases in all. When he began there were six of them who could hear words; 22, vowels onjy, and 33, were totally deaf This was last Odober. In April, 12 could hear sentences; 16, words; 21, vowels, and 11, were not improved. The method of treatment is precisely that originated and pradiced by Mr. Gillespie, and still followed by his assistants, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. Before 1 leave the floor, I will take this opportunity to com- municate to the profession, through this Association, the adion of the American Otological Association at its recent meeting held in Washington, a resolution presented by Dr. Blake of Boston, and discussed by Dr. Blake, Dr. Knapp of New York, Dr. Randall of Philadelphia, and by a number of other prominent otologists:— Resolved, That it is the sense of this Association that at each institution for the deaf, there should be an experienced aurist to make careful examinations of the condition of the ears of the pupils.