The causes and prevention of deafness. : Four lectures delivered under the auspices of the National bureau for promoting the general welfare of the deaf / by J. Kerr Love.

  • Love, James Kerr, 1858-1942
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[1913]
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    76 doubtful reactions ''J™ '^^J'^'™^^^^^^^^ import, but supposing themselfes would probably Save no po»mv f ' , j^,^ tbeyhad occurred m patients ^^t, ^.^^^ speiiflc remedies for a known WW.'--fec'^O,^^^^^^^^ facto fa considerable number of cases of sporadic congenrtal deafness and justify tbe conclusion tbat the part which syphilis nlavs in the production of this condition may be much greater than can be^detected by such a method as the Wassermann test carried out at a date long after the disease has ceased to be active. There is one class of cases which may be considered here- cases of congenital deafness which occur in association with some Xer de?ect%.g. blindness, epilepsy, insanity, feeble-mmdedness e c In a I'emarkable paper published ]ust a year ago by the American Eugenics Eecord Office, and entitled Bulletin No 4. A First Study of Inheritance in Epilepsy, the authors, Mr. Daven- nort and Dr. Weeks, show the association of epilepsy with feeble-mindedness, with insanity, and with other neuroses The paper proposes to explain the perpetuation of epilepsy and feeble- mindedness on the MendeUan hypothesis. Hereditary deafness is not mentioned in the paper. Now, I am not interested in this lecture in Mendelism at all. As an explanation of the heredity ot deafness, I shall deal with it in the next lecture. Here i am interested in congenital deafness as it occurs in tamihes m association with other congenital defects. The following are examples:—