Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1919 — MANY PERSONS ‘SOUND BLIND’ [ARTICLE]

MANY PERSONS ‘SOUND BLIND’

Peculiar Affliction That It Is Now Asserted Is Not Uncommon Among Mankind. Color blindness is by no means an uncommon complaint, for many people, although they may possess perfect eyesight for reading or seeing long distances, are quite unable to distinguish between green and red and many other pairs of colors. Lately It has been found that some suffer from an exactly similar, affection of the hearing power—that Is, an Inability to distinguish particular shades of sound. A school teacher reports a boy who could not distinguish at all between the sounds of “very,” “perry” and “Polly,” and yet he could hear at as great a distance as anybody. Another youngster would spell “Different” “drlfent” He said that was how it aounded to him. Several others ran the letters “r,” “n” and “1” together in a hopeless way, being unable to tell one from the other.