Abstract
THE successes obtained by Dr. Cathcart in the treatment of 665 cases of deafness by re-education are of peculiar interest to otologists and to patients with this crippling affliction; he obtained definite improvement in three-quarters of his cases of nerve-deafness, two-thirds of the cases of chronic otitis media, and in a half of the cases of otosclerosis. The treatment involves one or two exercises of five minutes' duration daily. He used the electrophone as the source of sound; this is an electro-mechanical oscillator of the vibrating reed type, with controls for variation of pitch and intensity. Nowadays, an audio-frequency oscillator incorporating two or more thermionic valves would be found easier to handle, but the arrangement of the exercises might well follow the plan of Dr. Cathcart, which has already proved so successful.
The Treatment of Chronic Deafness by the Electrophonoïde Method of Zünd-Burguet.
Dr.
George C.
Cathcart
By. (Oxford Medical Publications.) Second edition. Pp. xiii + 111. (London: Oxford University Press, 1931.) 5s. net.
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The Treatment of Chronic Deafness by the Electrophonoïde Method of Zünd-Burguet . Nature 128, 563 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128563c0
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