Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Relation of the Ears. [ARTICLE]

Relation of the Ears.

Dr. Urbantschitsch, of Vienna, remarks that although the relations between the two eyes, especially the so-called sympathetic affections of the eye, have long been known, those between the ears have hitherto attracted little attention. It seems, from the studies of the author, that these relations are of diverse nature, that they may often be demonstrated, and that they are sometimes of much practical importance. In bi-auricular audition it has been already observed that an ear in which the hearing is notably diminished may exercise a stimulant influence upon the other organ. The treatment of one ear augments the therapeutic effect obtained in the other, even when the treatment has no beneficial effect upon the hearing of the first. One fact, especially, possesses great interest, viz., by an operative procedure upon the transmitting apparatus of one ear we may not only arrest the diminution of hearing upon the other side, but obtain a decided amelioration and sometimes a return to the normal condition. These reciprocal relations between the two ears, and especially the synergistic effects of accommodation, deserve attention and permit the hope that we may some times intervene with success—at least, in one of the ears—in certain cases of progressive deafness.—[Revue de Laryngologie.