Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 18 | Daily Health Service

i Ua Daily l Health St Service ft 1 Bone Conducts Sound 0 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Med Mcd- ical Association and of the Health Magazine Unquestionably the disease called has affected the human being for many years In this condition the small bones Involved in hearing become locked by changes which take place In the I tissues so that the person affected I cannot hear well except over the I telephone or orith with ith a hearing device The reason he hears well under the latter circumstance is the fact that I In III this condition the conduction of sound mound through the bone is improved while conduction by air is lost I. I L Various theories ho have hii been offered as Yi is po pot pointed t t d out t by bY Dr Dr C. C is S. S ii Nash sh to account for the development of this condition but not one of these theories has bas as yet been established as the primary factor The only theory in which all ob observers observers oh- oh servers concur Is the conviction that the heredity or constitution of the person involved has some bearing since cc there is a a. tendency of such condItions conditions con con- to occur in families However it is not only the t tendency tendency ten ten- n- n dency of or the condition to occur that thatis is responsible but also the development development development develop develop- ment of an infection an intoxication from the gastro Intestinal tract the lack of some important food substance substance substance sub sub- stance some disorder of the glands of internal secretion some modification modification tion of the circulation or some other factor which must be the inciting factor associated with the hereditary cause Associated with the difficulty of hearing there takes place not Infrequently infrequently infrequently some nervous development due to the strain on the nervous I tern tem and also occasional ringing inthe Inthe in hi hithe the head whistling In the ears dizziness dizziness dizziness ness and anti nausea which make inake the condition even more serious than if It were confined to the disorder of hearing alone Fortunately hearing devices have been developed which arc of great aid to people with this type of deafness The American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of oC Hearing can supply to those interested a list of acceptable hearing devices In order to aid the study of this disease with a view to improving the condition for the future attempts arc are being made to get people with this type of deafness to will their ears ars to science so that after death the cars ears may be bc a available for study by experts in various centers of research who are giving special attention to this problem