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ASTHMA is a disturbance of the respiratory mechanism involving reversible, partial obstruction of the airway. One symptom is a raised sensitivity in human relationships. In a previous communication it has been shown that sufferers from asthma are unusually sensitive to high frequency sound waves between 10 and 30 kHz1. In this communication, an investigation of the high frequency sound environment is described, from which it may be inferred that these frequencies play a part in human communications.
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MASON, R. Asthma and the High Frequency Sound Environment. Nature 217, 360–363 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217360a0
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