This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...fifteenth year of life constituted a percentage of 22.2 of the grand total. In my last triennial report, just issued, I count among 3,846 ear patients 20.5 per cent, children to the fifteenth year. Experience having taught me that a large number of ear diseases found in adults may be traced back to affections recovered ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...fifteenth year of life constituted a percentage of 22.2 of the grand total. In my last triennial report, just issued, I count among 3,846 ear patients 20.5 per cent, children to the fifteenth year. Experience having taught me that a large number of ear diseases found in adults may be traced back to affections recovered from in childhood, I felt impelled to reiterate in every one of my reports how important therapeutical measures are, especially at that age; and the question had long ago occurred to me how large might be the absolute relative frequency of diseases of the ear in childhood. The first examination of school-children was made by W. von Reichard " at Riga; it comprised 1,055 children between seven and fifteen years. Unfortunately he tested the hearing power with the watch only. There were 22.3 per cent, who could hear only at 20-0 feet a watch which was heard by others at 20-60 feet and beyond; the defect was nearly uniformly divided among the sexes. About the diseases to which the defective hearing is due there are no statements contained in the paper, which enumerates chiefly lack of cleanliness and exposure to cold, aside from diseases of childhood, as the reputed causes of their frequency. 1 Ueber den Werth der Ohrenheilkunde fUr die Militararzte.--Arch.f. Ohrenhtilk., Bd. vii., p. 103. a Ueber die Bedeutung eines guten GehOres ftir die Schulbildung, W. v. Reichard, Arzt des Stadtischen Gymnasiums zu Riga.--Petersburger med. Wochtnschr., No. 29, 1878. For more comprehensive and thorough examinations of the hearing of school-children we are indebted to Dr. Weil,1 of Stuttgart, who tested 5,905 children for their hearing distance by means of whispered speech, and also determined the diseases present, by otoscopical examination. In some scho...
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