Medicine: Wired Ears

At Johns Hopkins Drs. Walter Hughson and Samuel James Crowe last week were preparing a technical report on how they wired a radio loudspeaker to a cat's middle ear, where many hearing defects begin. They thus could hear what the cat heard. They learned that some middle ear defects do not alter the sense of hearing, that others blur reception, others increase acuity.

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