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A PRELIMINARY REPORT

DOUGLAS CHAMBERLAIN, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1942;35(4):595-602.

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Perhaps only by repeated audiograms made before, during, immediately after and some time after various separate harmful influences are at work can one study completely the respective effects on the hearing. Such a method would seem to be more satisfactory than one which depends on audiograms made after harm has been done. The latter method offers no way of distinguishing between the effects of the many factors at work over a period of time; whereas, if each possible influence can be studied separately, one may hope eventually to appreciate the damage done by each. How, for example, does one distinguish between the fatigue or damage from exposure to noise and the toxic effects of quinine and other drugs? According to most writers, these factors produce much the same effect on the hearing as shown in a final audiogram, but how large a part does each of any number of other . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

Footnotes
Read before the Tennessee Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology April 8, 1941, Nashville, Tenn.

The management and employees of the Chattanooga Boiler and Tank Company cooperated in making these observations possible.

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