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ALFRED LEWY, M.D.; SHERMAN L. SHAPIRO, M.D.; NORMAN LESHIN, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1947;46(6):804-850.

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AGAIN, in 1946, the rehabilitation of those handicapped by impairment of hearing and the conservation of hearing make up the subject matter of the greatest number of contributions included in this review. The effect of trauma of the organ of hearing and the proper evaluation and prescription of hearing aids also have attracted much attention. Few additions have been made to functional tests of hearing as such. Newer concepts, as well as a revaluation of these tests, are reported in some of the articles. Available foreign literature is still of scant volume.

TESTS

Tschiassny¹ has written a fine and concise historical review of the tuning fork tests. He starts his review by referring to Ingrassia, who discovered the phenomenon of bone conduction almost four hundred years ago. Bibliographic sketches and pictures of such famous men as Weber, Bonnaport and Rinne are part of the paper. Interesting incidents relative to the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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