Word: otolaryngologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Healey, 10, of Patchogue, N.Y. had almost complete loss of hearing in her left ear and considerable loss in the right as a result of a fall downstairs at the age of 1½. She had to have special training in both speech and hearing. When Manhattan's Otolaryngologist J. Douglas Lake was consulted, he decided to do a difficult and delicate operation called mobilization of the stapes (small bones of the inner ear). For realignment, the ¼-inch (or shorter) bones had to be magnified 16 times under a new type of Zeiss lens. Last week Barbara...