Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Owing to war time emergencies, the physician is the only M.D. in town and though 70 years old, blind, half deaf and ignorant of all medical knowledge of the last half century, he manages to deliver all the babies successfully. Typical of his brand of medicine is his reply to an anxious patient who calls him up and asks. "Junior just throw up, doctor. What should I do?" "Clean it up," snaps the tottering doctor as he pursues his work...
...Stone-deaf, crop-haired, twinkling Dorothy Brett is known to her friends as The Brett. She carries an elaborate audiophone wherever she goes, paints long hours, professes complete indifference to criticism of her work, for which she asks prices up to $10,000. Says she: "I found out long ago that no matter what I do some people like it, some...
Most people have heard that fluorine probably has something to do with keeping teeth healthy. They have read about the happy, cavity-free citizens of Deaf Smith County, Tex., where fluorine exists in judicious quantities in soil and water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). They have seen movies of Ripley, Ont., which has so much natural fluorine that the dentists' chief occupation is holding citizens' mouths open to display their perfect teeth. These demonstrations make laymen wonder why experimental use of fluorine has been limited to a few small-scale ventures...
...writing this letter for my mother, who is deaf and whose sight is failing. Doctors told Mom that she may never hear again and it is only a matter of time before her eyes fail her completely...
Most oldtime hearing gadgets were not only feeble but massive. Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with...