Show DUE TO THE TELEPHONE eu caid ly its ua enesh me ical journal As civilization advances new diseases are not only discovered but are actually produced by the novel agencies which are brought to bear on mans body and mind the increase of insanity throughout the world is unquestionably due to the storm and stress of our crowded modern life and almost every addition which science makes to the convenience of the majority seems to bring with it some new form of suffering to the few railway traveling hs its in the shape of slight but possibly not unimportant jolting of the centers the electric light haa already created a special form and now we have tha telephone indicated as a cause of ear troubles which react on tha spirits indirectly on the general health M gelle has observed not in women only but in airone and able bodied men symptoms of what we may call aural overpressure caused by the condition of almost constant strain of the auditory apparatus in which persona who use the telephone much have to spend a portion of each working day in some cases alan the ear seemed tu bair rated by the constantly recurring ahara tinkle of the bell or by the nearness of the conveyed through the tube into a state of oversensitive ness which made it intolerant of sound as the eye alion or ir ratable becomes unable to bear the light the patients suffered from nervous excitability with buzzing noises in the ear la addition to the subjective symptoms M gelle in some cases round objective lessons euch ai a subin sub in nam matory condition of the tympani A similar condition of is afien seen m persons alio a large portion of their elivea amid the jr and crash of machinery all the trouble speedily vanishes ir the ear is allowed a sufficient measure of physiological rest this it can only obtain by the cause being withdrawn luther bool ake that on kaaa maker aganod his john WAO mit instead 0 PM tha other day |