Show Telephone Deafness E users users and mid that Includes everT every ever T I person will person will bo In tetI In the subject of ot telephone deafness George Cott Cotto in the Medical Journal calls caBs att attention nUon to several cases in which persons when the they put the tho t telephone telephone tele tele- le- le phone receiver to tho the ear eur suddenly s heard a loud pitched high sound found and aUlI then could hear bear nothing more tho tha deafness persisting for tor a considerable length th of r time Ills Ills His explanation of DC tho thi cause of ot this deafness is that nn any interference to the line while one is listening lis t toning Ina may Jar tho the auditory neno suddenly and Induce a pitched high sound followed by bj prolonged prolonged pro pro- longed longe t with Immediate deafness either partial or total tho the symptoms ameliorating after somo fomo weeks s. s This accident can be bo avoided 1 because Uso it Jt occurs cal only wh when whon n tho the listener holds he receiver er In such contact with tho the ear car that no sound soun-J can enter uter a n comm common n wa way to hold the receiver wb when n there Is much noise around It If the tho user o of the tho telephone applies tho the receiver in such a wa way that thata a ft space is left lett for free circulation of oC air between it and the tho ear a n shock cannot bo ho transmitted to tho the nerve no matter how m much ch disturbance there thero ma may be on the tho lino Uno |