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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s already directed.Should there be no wax the introduction of a drop or two of glycerine may do good.Should the general health be below par, iron and cod-liver oil may be given advan-tageously. Often benefit is derived from taking a table-spoonful of the tonic quininemixture (Pr. 9), threeor four times a day.For old people, orthose who have donemuch brain - work,phosphorus, or thehypophosphites (Prs.53, 54, or 55), maybe employed with afair chance of success,although of coursethey often fail to doany good. Severalkinds of hearingtrumpets are sold,some of which arehere figured. The first is a flexible speaking-tube, which is very convenient for conversation, andis, in fact, often called a conversation-tube. The second and third figures representthe ordinary metallic trumpets which are used by persons with impaired hearing tohear addresses, sermons, and so on. In some churches long flexible tubes run frombeneath the pulpit to the seats of those whose hearing is impaired, and are used as
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Fig. 6.—HEARING TRUMPETS. 256 THE TREATMENT OP DISEASES. ——————— . ,^ is the conversation-tube. It may be stated that as a rule the simpler forms ofhearing apparatus are by far the best. The so-called invisible tubes which areworn in the passage of the ear usually prove of little or no value. Should yourown efforts to obtain relief prove of no avail, it must be remembered that a consul-tation with an experienced surgeon or physician, who has made diseases of the eara speciality, may be attended with the happiest results, although often enough, itmust be confessed, it ends in nothing but disappointment. Deaf-mutism.—Deaf-mutism may be dependent on several different conditions,but in the great majority of cases it is caused by total or partial deafness, the resulteither of congenital defect or of disease occurring during early life. A child whohas never heard cannot acquire language in the ordinary way, and is consequentlydumb. It is not at all necessary that there sho

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