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Deafness ~~ A Potpourri of Causes, Cures, Non-cures, and Advantages
Dr. Wilde: "Only Two Kinds of Deafness"
"There are only two kinds of deafness. One is due to wax in the ear canal and is curable. The other is not due to wax and is not curable."
William Wilde, MD (1815-1876) We have an appointment with Dr. Wilde on our Page 8, to ask why he believes non-wax deafness is so incurable. 
Also....... for the pleasure of meeting him, as Dr. Wilde is
Oscar Wilde's dad. __________________________________________________ 
Beethoven Holds the Non-Cure Record
"Some medical jackass prescribed tea to cure my deafness". Ludwig van Beethoven The cause of Beethoven's deafness remains uncertain. He went through many doctors and treatments, from leeches to toxic plants to almond oil ear plugs. When in his fifties, a surgeon friend, Dr. Aloys Weissenbach, treated Beethoven's deafness with hot and cold baths, diuretics, vibration, galvanism, sweatings, nebulizing, tourniquets, dieting, chiropractics, fasting, smoke steaming, and injecting chemicals into the auditory meatus, among even other things -----accomplishing nothing. 
Poor Dr. Weissenbach !! He was a serious music composer on the side, and (OMG!) he eventually became deaf himself !! Apparently, his thick portfolio of cures didn't help him either.
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Deafness Cured by Power Dives !!
Aircraft power dive cures were news for 30 years until about 1949. The New York Times ( on 12/29/1924 ) reported an attempt by the US Army Air Corps to cure deafness via a 10,000 ft. power dive (almost 2 miles straight down). The "patient" was Joseph Kling, a 28 year old garment worker from Brooklyn, NY, who "needed hearing to join the army". We found nothing in the Times archives on what happened to his deafness -----nor (of greater concern) on what happened to him. The Silent Worker, a Deaf Community publication , said much later that nobody ever got cured in this. It added that several actually died in these attempts (probably hype, as no details were offered). _________________________________________________________________ Our Favorite Power Dive To Cure Deafness ..............
.........took place on May 2nd, 1930 above Duquesne, near Pittsburgh. From 12,000 feet up at full throttle, 140 mph straight down, a wing collapsed. The plane crashed through the roof of the Carnegie Steel Company, perhaps right into a vat of molten steel. Its two occupants had managed to bail out.
The pilot landed far off on the Baltimore & Ohio RR tracks. The deaf-as-ever, scared-to-death "patient" (who had been given verbal instructions on how to bail out) bounced off the roof but landed conveniently in the company parking lot (perhaps where his car was parked). That was his first (and we assume his last) power dive. Read about it here in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19300502&id=XaBRAAAAIBAJ&sjid= lmgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5244,1111397 ______________________________________________________________ Lifetime Deafness Cured Instantly by a BIRD !!
Seriously, not a joke!! We have proof !!
See below. Two people, "deaf" and "stone deaf" since infancy, were "instantly cured by the piercing squawk of a giant emu bird" that they encountered in a zoo. A real MD (not some hysterical reporter) certified this. Yes, total lifetime deafness instantly cured by a bird !!! The fellow looking at you here is a giant emu (though not the actual hero of this event). Emus can grow to 6 feet. They don't fly but can sprint 30 miles/hour. Their very loud, high-pitched squawk can crack an empty wine glass. Before you rush to your local zoo to make funny faces at an emu to make it squawk, find out if they have any. It's not a common zoo resident. This report may have originated in the prestigious International Journal of Otolayringology; we don't know. We found it in the popular Weekly World News, issue of 3/16/1993. Their byline is "The World's Most Reliable News". Typical headlines: PYRAMID FOUND ON THE MOON ! HILLARY CLINTON ADAPTS A SPACE ALIEN ! MAN'S HEAD EXPLODES IN BARBER CHAIR ! Read it all here: https://books.google.com/books?id=7e0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=weekly+world+news+deafness+cured+by+a+bird&source=bl&ots=t1vhO8ZyzD&sig=e3I4-ji0CSuhZyKNet2oyhLXRoU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMwfWtxY7KAhXE6yYKHZp0A1sQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=weekly%20world%20news%20deafness%20cured%20by%20a%20bird&f=false _________________________________________________________________ 
Deaf? Go to a lecture by
Rev. Louis Farrakhan. "When I speak, blind people see, deaf people hear.........." As quoted in Emerge magazine 
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A Deafening Deafened Jewish Dyke? The New Republic (05/31/1993) commented on the Gay March on Washington. It told of one emotional speaker who introduced herself as a "deafened Jewish dyke". The magazine article asked if she lost her hearing "listening to deafening people like herself". ______________________________________________________________ A Cure and a Loss------ " DEAF MUTE GETS NEW HEARING IN KILLING" "MAN MINUS EAR WAIVES HEARING" Actual published newspaper article headlines in the "blooper collection" of the Columbia School of Journalism, like: "JERK INJURES NECK, WINS AWARD" ______________________________________________________________ 
To cure deafness, annoint the ears with
the oil of eels, used perfectly fresh. Old Irish superstition ________________________________________________________________ The Camera Does Not Lie !! Dr. L. P. Mills
Profound deafness (yes, the real thing !!) is instantly
cured !! Watch Dr. Lorenzo Peays Mills restore hearing in the Netherlands by hand massage and homeopathic Bach Flower Therapy, before your very eyes in this astounding captioned video !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvQntfERC5g ~~~~~~
Well, if that one didn't knock your socks off, try this one. See a woman 30 years profoundly deaf cured instantly by evangelist Todd Bentley at the Florida Revival, 2012 ---where others were cured as well, before everyone's eyes !
Mr. Bentley is a CODA (Child Of a Deaf Adult). His mom died deaf before he acquired his curative powers. His modus operandi for curing deafness, beside knocking you onto your behind, is to purge "the deaf and dumb spirit" from within you. Despite the name, it is actually "the spirit of disbelief", as described by St. Mark, 9:25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjD1Q3bcbd4 Oooops ! Sorry, some clod took down the video. Todd claims a 75% to 85% cure rate across several afflictions. Not bad at all. _________________________________________________________ The 100 Percent Double-Whammy Cure !!! 
During the great Cultural Revolution, all (yes, ALL) 105 deaf-and-mute children in a school in China were cured of both deafness and mutism within 60 days !! These double-whammy cures were done by a five man army medical team, using only acupuncture and the principles of Chairman Mao Zedong.
Their methods are revealed in this book from China, Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf Mutes (in English). A mere $25 on Amazon. Before you book a flight to China, or rush to buy the book to find your cure, watch the documentary below ---to be convinced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4U_acIJesI _____________________________________________________________ Dr. Vance's Overnight Cure for Meningitis Deafness
The bio-serum that cures meningitis deafness overnight with a single shot, was discovered by Merick J. Vance, MD (at right) in 1944 --after intense effort. It was a risky concoction ---OMG!! it killed the rabbit it was tested on!!
Nevertheless, it restored all the hearing of his patient, a wealthy deaf girl. It also won her heart; she became the wife of this poor young doctor from the wrong side of the tracks.
Note: Dr. Vance (the actor Alan Ladd,) created the serum in the classic tear jerker "And Now Tomorrow" with Susan Hayward, by Paramount Studios, Hollyweird, Los Angeles). __________________________________________ 
The Metamorphosis
Millions were thrilled to tears in 1952 to see a born-Deaf, mute prizefighter metamorphosize into a hearing person overnight, through miracle surgery ----in the classic film, Flesh and Fury. 
The public at that time couldn't stomach deaf-mutism or deaf-anything. So the Deaf boxer Paul Callan (pretty-boy Tony Curtis) had to get completely cured to win the girl and provide a happy ending. The newly-minted hearing couple apparently lived happily ever after.
The idea for this film probably came from the career of Eugene Hairston, Jr. He was a Deaf prize-fighter at that time who came close to a national championship. Meet Gene on our Page 3, left column, bottom. ____________________________________________
More cures are in the Gospel of Luke 7:22-----
"Then Jesus said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard, how the blind see, the deaf hear, the leper is cleansed....." (These very same miracles are recited in Text #4Q521 of the Dead Sea Scrolls, except that one about curing the deaf. Hmmmm, maybe the scribes had some doubts that deafness could be cured). And don't overlook Isaiah, 25: 5,6 ("Then the .... ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. ....and the tongue of the dumb man shall sing"). And much the same from Matthew 11:5. BTW, Many images of this theme were produced through the centuries to the present. The woodcut on the top left is from a 15th Century German book. On the top right, an engraving by Gustave Dore. _____________________________________________________________ From the Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1928 Might Rev. F.F. Bosworth of Chicago Still Be Available? In a single day, he fully cured six deaf and mute kids. Read the proof below. 
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1) The main character who is "blind, deaf, dumb, and spastic" ( is that all?) for 50 years, gets cured somehow in The Textures of Silence by Gordon Vorster; Murrow, 1984. (Note: "Spastic" is a PC no-no word for cerebral palsy.)
2) The deaf-blind heroine gets cured of both by being raped, in The Story of Esther Costello by Nicholas Monsarrat (1953). ______________________________________________________________ The Cure-Everything-in-a-Suitcase
The "violet ray" cure applied intense ultra-violet light to different body areas. It originated with the work of a
French Dr. Denoyes in 1902. Claims of successful cures ran from acne and baldness, all the way to influenza, tuberculosis, and deafness. This pricey-looking thing is from the 1920's. Among the adaptors on the lid, is a special glass vacuum electrode. Insert it into your ear canal, apply the juice for two minutes, and repeat daily until your deafness is cured ----which would occur in several days (if you were fortunate) to several months. You can read about deafness cured by this marvel in Electrical Healing and the Violet Ray (quick-scroll down to page 230) : http://www.arthurleej.com/Violet.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Goerss' Dog-&-Pony Show
( LEFT ) Dr. Franz C. A. Goerss, the eminent specialist in European curative medicine, brought us the latest medical advances from his native Germany. He appeared in San Diego on Tuesday, October 9th, 1894. He was on stage to cure the lameness, blindness, and deafness of afflicted persons from the audience who chose to come forward. As noted in the ad, a brass band and orchestra, with a grand company of entertainers, was on hand. Assumedly, a drum and trumpet fanfare followed every cure. Also as noted in the ad at left, Dr. Goerss extracted teeth on the platform, painlessly and free of charge. Attendants vended bottles of the doctor's Malaysayan Tree Oil Extract, a miracle curative of benefit to most ills. You may wish to learn more about this eminent physician and his prestigious German medical school. Go here: http://www.sandiegoyesterday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Medicine-Show.pdf ______________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE CUTTING-EDGE CURES 
Several decades ago, the only invasive surgery for deafness were two procedures to the inner ear, Fenestration and Mobilization of the Stapes. No one then even dreamed of fiddling with the nervous system and implanting a gizmo into someone's head. Well, no one except Andre D'Journo in Paris who dreamed up the cochlear implant, and further back, A.G.Bell who fantasticized about electrically introducing music directly into his deaf wife's brain.
These days, heroic procedures are coming up one after another. Here are the big boys. ____________________________________________________________ 
Let's Prelude With the Cochlear Implant
"A patient who had a cochlear implant, spoke warmly of the benefits......he said a phrase such as 'How are you' was likely to sound like 'ba ba boo' ". The New York Times; 5/15/1988 This "salvation from the dark depths of silence" ( as one hysterical reporter called it ) comes with much misinformation and emotional hype. For a calm view, go here:: http://www.cochlearwar.com/myths_and_facts.html#mf01 ____________________________________________________________ Now for the Big Boys
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The BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid) made its debut recently under the name "Cochlear Baha 5" (We don't know what the "5" is for).
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This one (like the BOCI, above) is for hearing through the skull. Long ago a vibrator was held on the mastoid bone via a headband or eyeglass frame. Later on, for firmer connection, a metal stud was implanted into the bone behind the ear, emerging through the skin. The vibrator was then solidly snapped into it from the outside, and cabled to a processor and microphone in an over-the-ear unit.
The little thing shown is similar, but with it's own mike, processor, and battery. The stud can be implanted in the skull, or attached externally to an impalnted magnet attached inside the skull.
The little thing shown is similar, but with it's own mike, processor, and battery. The stud can be implanted in the skull, or attached externally to an impalnted magnet attached inside the skull.
Look What's Coming: The Darkness Cure !!
An entire one-third of the human cerebral cortex is for
vision. It is believed that some of that can be rewired for hearing. It's a natural process called neural reorganization. (If you prefer fancier names, it's cross-modal neuroplasticity).
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, are experimenting with just that. They kept laboratory mice in total darkness for long time periods, while creating sounds of interest to the mice. The brains of the mice naturally did rewire away from their eyesight to improve their hearing. (But did it degrade their vision?)
We will stay on top of this for you.
Read about re-wiring of deaf human brains on our Page 12.
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An entire one-third of the human cerebral cortex is for
vision. It is believed that some of that can be rewired for hearing. It's a natural process called neural reorganization. (If you prefer fancier names, it's cross-modal neuroplasticity).
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, are experimenting with just that. They kept laboratory mice in total darkness for long time periods, while creating sounds of interest to the mice. The brains of the mice naturally did rewire away from their eyesight to improve their hearing. (But did it degrade their vision?)
We will stay on top of this for you.
Read about re-wiring of deaf human brains on our Page 12.
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OMG !! Now the Ultimate, the Printed Ear !!
According to the wire services, scientists at Princeton University, using the new 3D printing technique, but with organic materials, have created a "human ear that can actually hear!!". And OMG!!, it says it can hear better than a normal ear!!
According to the lead scientist at Princeton, their effort was to "build and grow the biology up with electronics synergistically in a 3D interwoven format". Huh? Oh come on, cut the bio-babble and tell us where that spiraled cable goes -----to the auditory cortex or what? Does it have an inner ear with a cochlea and all that? And what happens to the original external ear when this prosthetic ear is attached?
However it works, it does ignite some visions, like those Japanese predictions on our Page 6. In the year 2023 a deaf person
enters the hospital and leaves next morning as a "hearie" with his
grafted-on 3D printed ears.
We'll be digging up more on this great white hope. Standby.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/bionic-ear_n_3224379.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
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According to the lead scientist at Princeton, their effort was to "build and grow the biology up with electronics synergistically in a 3D interwoven format". Huh? Oh come on, cut the bio-babble and tell us where that spiraled cable goes -----to the auditory cortex or what? Does it have an inner ear with a cochlea and all that? And what happens to the original external ear when this prosthetic ear is attached?
However it works, it does ignite some visions, like those Japanese predictions on our Page 6. In the year 2023 a deaf person
enters the hospital and leaves next morning as a "hearie" with his
grafted-on 3D printed ears.
We'll be digging up more on this great white hope. Standby.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/bionic-ear_n_3224379.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
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No, No, HERE is the Ultimate --
The Total Conquest of Deafness !!
You surely have read everywhere that the cochlear implant will eventually eradicate deafness. That's pure media hype. It won't, and informed people know It won't. But two other things will.
All that fancy medical stuff above, and all similar implanted, stuck-in, or hung-on devices, (including the cochlear implant) will eventually become obsolete, because deafness will become extinct!!
Yes, yes, you read that correctly!! Read on................
The Total Conquest of Deafness !!
You surely have read everywhere that the cochlear implant will eventually eradicate deafness. That's pure media hype. It won't, and informed people know It won't. But two other things will.
All that fancy medical stuff above, and all similar implanted, stuck-in, or hung-on devices, (including the cochlear implant) will eventually become obsolete, because deafness will become extinct!!
Yes, yes, you read that correctly!! Read on................
Gene engineering will eradicate all prenatal deafness. Cell regeneration
will eradicate the rest. These fields are now the hotcakes of medical science. Their researchers are the brightest bulbs in the box, smartest guys and gals in the room.
Meet the actual mouse of this great event, above, born deaf and given full normal hearing. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Childrens Hospital re-arranged his genes ----living proof it can be done !! Note his perked-up ears and amazed expression as he listens to sound ! When it's all fully developed for humans, a pill or a shot in the arm is all it will take. Poof !! -----and that’s the end of it.
(They didn't name him but we'll call him Melvin and you'll meet him again on Page 20). You can read about it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/01/us-mice-gene-idUSKCN0R14CK20150901
will eradicate the rest. These fields are now the hotcakes of medical science. Their researchers are the brightest bulbs in the box, smartest guys and gals in the room.
Meet the actual mouse of this great event, above, born deaf and given full normal hearing. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Childrens Hospital re-arranged his genes ----living proof it can be done !! Note his perked-up ears and amazed expression as he listens to sound ! When it's all fully developed for humans, a pill or a shot in the arm is all it will take. Poof !! -----and that’s the end of it.
(They didn't name him but we'll call him Melvin and you'll meet him again on Page 20). You can read about it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/01/us-mice-gene-idUSKCN0R14CK20150901
Here's one procedure. It restores the cochlea.
When will this medical triumph (or calamity) transpire?
We’d guess near the end of this century. Most of us reading this now, won’t be here then. We’ll be in flowing white robes watching everything from up in the clouds, along with a gloating Dr. Prosper Meniere (for whom Meniere’s Disease is named). He’s the one who made the famous proclamation:
“......deafness is an infirmity and we [medical people] must repair it whether the person who has it is disturbed by it or not”.
(BTW, our article "A Cure in the Afterlife" up in the column on the right, infers that there is no deafness in heaven. So try hard to qualify to get up there, if none of the present cures work for you down here).
“......deafness is an infirmity and we [medical people] must repair it whether the person who has it is disturbed by it or not”.
(BTW, our article "A Cure in the Afterlife" up in the column on the right, infers that there is no deafness in heaven. So try hard to qualify to get up there, if none of the present cures work for you down here).
With all deafness gone on earth, American Sign Language (ASL) will survive and prosper.
Yes, you read that correctly, too!!
ASL is very admired now, and many hearing people want to learn it. This will accelerate exponentially. By then all hearing people throughout the world will be using sign concurrently and equally with spoken language for its many, many advantages. Children will pick it up in their cribs and at their mothers' knees.
ASL is very admired now, and many hearing people want to learn it. This will accelerate exponentially. By then all hearing people throughout the world will be using sign concurrently and equally with spoken language for its many, many advantages. Children will pick it up in their cribs and at their mothers' knees.
Even space aliens will pick up ASL when they visit earth. This one is signing "d" (even though aliens have only 3 fingers and a thumb per hand). Did you ever dream that everyone will use ASL (or the Deaf sign languages of their countries)? ------and all users will be hearing people, because no deaf people will be left? (Read what we wrote on our Page 13, A Manual Form of Speech.)
What used to be "Deaf Culture" will become an elective subject for a degree in sociology, history, and several other fields. Sign interpreters, Deaf clubs, and all that won't exist. The place to see an electronic hearing aid will be in a museum showcase next to the ear trumpets display. Cochlear implants and everything-else-implants will survive as photographs and diagrams in medical history books.
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The Conquest of Deafness
What used to be "Deaf Culture" will become an elective subject for a degree in sociology, history, and several other fields. Sign interpreters, Deaf clubs, and all that won't exist. The place to see an electronic hearing aid will be in a museum showcase next to the ear trumpets display. Cochlear implants and everything-else-implants will survive as photographs and diagrams in medical history books.
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The Conquest of Deafness
This is all it will take, a pill or a shot...........
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE BRAINY DEAF SITE
Watch Senator Tom Harkin talking (with a bit of signing) at the DNC, July, 2016 [Page 14]
Tributes to Alec Naiman, Oliver Sacks, and Audree Norton [Page 6]
Granville Redmond [Page 7]
Cat and baby girl using sign language [Page 5]
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OUR MOST-VIEWED PAGES SO FAR THIS MONTH ARE (in this order):
1 (by far)........ then 10, 7, 16, and 12
OUR LEAST-VIEWED PAGE (SADLY !!) IS PAGE 15..........
and has been so for a long time. Please go there. It's all on the deaf Goya, who ranks in art like Beethoven does in music. He is one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and his deafness is greatly responsible for it. His work after his deafness acquired immense power.
Find out why it is said that if he wasn't deaf, he would have left us common and "proper" art we would barely look at, and that very few people today would have ever heard of him.
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE BRAINY DEAF SITE
Watch Senator Tom Harkin talking (with a bit of signing) at the DNC, July, 2016 [Page 14]
Tributes to Alec Naiman, Oliver Sacks, and Audree Norton [Page 6]
Granville Redmond [Page 7]
Cat and baby girl using sign language [Page 5]
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OUR MOST-VIEWED PAGES SO FAR THIS MONTH ARE (in this order):
1 (by far)........ then 10, 7, 16, and 12
OUR LEAST-VIEWED PAGE (SADLY !!) IS PAGE 15..........
and has been so for a long time. Please go there. It's all on the deaf Goya, who ranks in art like Beethoven does in music. He is one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and his deafness is greatly responsible for it. His work after his deafness acquired immense power.
Find out why it is said that if he wasn't deaf, he would have left us common and "proper" art we would barely look at, and that very few people today would have ever heard of him.
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Just Added--- Dad of the Year
OMG, what's that thing he's wearing? Not what you think !! Go to Page 20, bottom right _____________________________________________
OMG, what's that thing he's wearing? Not what you think !! Go to Page 20, bottom right _____________________________________________
The identity of the woman in La Muta ("The Mute Woman") by the Italian Renaissance painter, Raphael, is a mystery. Nobody knows if she's deaf. We feel she was and "looks" so. And you? There's a poll we'd appreciate you joining, under her picture on Page 7,
low down.
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What ?!? OMG, here comes a deafness epidemic !!
Viagra, the most popular erectile-dysfunction (ED) drug, can make you deaf !! So can those other so-called PDE-5 inhibitor drugs for ED ----Levitra, Ciallis, etc. Five billion dollars of these drugs are sold annually ! OMG, here comes an epidemic!
Read about it here:
http://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/viagra-sudden-hearing-loss-and-tinnitus/#.VQzrB_zF98E
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Read about it here:
http://www.tinnitusformula.com/library/viagra-sudden-hearing-loss-and-tinnitus/#.VQzrB_zF98E
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According to Rabbi ben Dahabi...............
The great Talmudic Rabbi, Yoykhannon (Johanan) ben Dahabi provided this divinely inspired fact:
"If a child is born deaf, it's because the parents were talking to each other at the moment of conception".
He had a menu of situations during sex that caused different physical disabilities for the child. He managed to get all that valuable information into the Babylonian Talmud (see Nedarim 20b).
Sources: Jewcy.com, and Born to Kvetch, Michael Wax, St. Martins Press
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The great Talmudic Rabbi, Yoykhannon (Johanan) ben Dahabi provided this divinely inspired fact:
"If a child is born deaf, it's because the parents were talking to each other at the moment of conception".
He had a menu of situations during sex that caused different physical disabilities for the child. He managed to get all that valuable information into the Babylonian Talmud (see Nedarim 20b).
Sources: Jewcy.com, and Born to Kvetch, Michael Wax, St. Martins Press
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According to St. Augustine...................
St. Augustine (d. 430 AD) unfortunately stuck his nose into this too. He is said to have preached that a child born deaf, or otherwise not normal, was made that way to reflect the sins of one or both parents. He surely destroyed many lives with that.
Many families covered their shame by mistreating, hiding, and rejecting disabled children. Wealthy families often banished them to convents and monasteries. Others buried them in almshouses, prisons, hospitals, work colonies, leper colonies, or charitable institutions.
As if this troublemaker didn't do enough damage, he went on to say that sacraments and redemption of the Catholic Church were denied to deaf people. That was based on his unimaginative reading of St. Paul in
Romans 10:17:
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.
(There's a similar statement in Romans 10:14. Actually, these statements certainly referred to belief, not to human hearing.)
In fairness to the Saint, it is not certain that he actually said or believed any of this ----it's attributed to him only in the writings of others. Not everyone has only friends, you know.
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Many families covered their shame by mistreating, hiding, and rejecting disabled children. Wealthy families often banished them to convents and monasteries. Others buried them in almshouses, prisons, hospitals, work colonies, leper colonies, or charitable institutions.
As if this troublemaker didn't do enough damage, he went on to say that sacraments and redemption of the Catholic Church were denied to deaf people. That was based on his unimaginative reading of St. Paul in
Romans 10:17:
Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God.
(There's a similar statement in Romans 10:14. Actually, these statements certainly referred to belief, not to human hearing.)
In fairness to the Saint, it is not certain that he actually said or believed any of this ----it's attributed to him only in the writings of others. Not everyone has only friends, you know.
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Another troublemaker...........
........was John Calvin (d.1564). He was a lawyer, pastor, and controversial religious theologian, the founder of Calvinism. From his scrambled eggs brain came the belief that people (not everyone) are selected by God before birth, for salvation after death. Those rejected are marked by God with physical and mental disabilities, such as lameness and deafness, to carry through their lives.
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........was John Calvin (d.1564). He was a lawyer, pastor, and controversial religious theologian, the founder of Calvinism. From his scrambled eggs brain came the belief that people (not everyone) are selected by God before birth, for salvation after death. Those rejected are marked by God with physical and mental disabilities, such as lameness and deafness, to carry through their lives.
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Martin Luther (d. 1546), directed his fury against the feeble minded, believing them infested with Satan. That surely included deaf people of his time. He wrote that feeble minded children should be drowned as their souls were corrupted or missing. (We wonder how many actually were, thanks to him). Despite that extreme vileness, he read St. Paul (Romans 10:17) correctly. He wrote that "to the word of God, nothing is deaf", that St. Paul's words referred only to the
"inward ears", to belief.
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These and others with their crackpot religious theories, can be thanked for many lives destroyed. Also for what even to this very day survives, particularly in East European culture (and some others as well) ------that disabled children are a divine punishment, a shame upon the family, and are best kept aside or out of sight.
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"inward ears", to belief.
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These and others with their crackpot religious theories, can be thanked for many lives destroyed. Also for what even to this very day survives, particularly in East European culture (and some others as well) ------that disabled children are a divine punishment, a shame upon the family, and are best kept aside or out of sight.
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Desparately Seeking a Deafness Cure?
Ever considered getting hit by lightning? Your chances of getting hit are sixty times better than winning the state lottery ------much better if you hang out on a golf course with a metal-tipped umbrella during a thunderstorm. The fatality rate is less than 20%.
Gary Lockhart, in his Electrical Healing and the Violet Ray, tells of a farmer profoundly deaf 11 years, who got zonked by lightning in 1980 and was fully cured of deafness ---with a bonus: all the hair grew back on his bald spot.
Not convinced? Keep reading ............
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POOF !! 60 Years of Deafness Gone in an Instant !!
The excerpt below (July 15, 1911) is from the no-baloney New York Times,
so it must be true. SCROLL DOWN PLEASE.
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"At Last Medical Science Has Conquered Deafness"
According to the ad (below), Dr. G.F. Webb's Galvanic Electro Medical Harness, "a triumph of skill", is curing "thousands all over the land". Wear it "for a few hours daily" either in daytime or while sleeping, "until a cure is obtained". "It cures all deafness, including that caused by youthful indescretions." ("Youthful indescretions"? Grandpa said that naughty habit makes boys blind. Huh, WHAT ?!?! It makes them deaf, too? OMG !!)
"At Last Medical Science Has Conquered Deafness"
According to the ad (below), Dr. G.F. Webb's Galvanic Electro Medical Harness, "a triumph of skill", is curing "thousands all over the land". Wear it "for a few hours daily" either in daytime or while sleeping, "until a cure is obtained". "It cures all deafness, including that caused by youthful indescretions." ("Youthful indescretions"? Grandpa said that naughty habit makes boys blind. Huh, WHAT ?!?! It makes them deaf, too? OMG !!)
Here's Dr. Huber's version of a similar device.
It is shown set up with "ear electrodes" in place, for the cure of any "deafness pronounced incurable". Its ad that the battery is dry-cell, the voltage low, and the alternating frequency is 65 cycles/second. It sold for under $10 (about $240 in present money), plus the cost of periodic battery replacement..
For futher information, go to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthpicturegalleries/9519906/Cocaine-tooth-drops-morphine-teething-syrup-and-other-Victorian-quack-cures.html?frame=2328295
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It is shown set up with "ear electrodes" in place, for the cure of any "deafness pronounced incurable". Its ad that the battery is dry-cell, the voltage low, and the alternating frequency is 65 cycles/second. It sold for under $10 (about $240 in present money), plus the cost of periodic battery replacement..
For futher information, go to:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthpicturegalleries/9519906/Cocaine-tooth-drops-morphine-teething-syrup-and-other-Victorian-quack-cures.html?frame=2328295
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Dr. P. Hall's Celebrated Catarrh Remedy for Deafness
This cure claimed 90% of all deafness is caused by catarrh (blockage and inflamation in the Eustachian tube).
Dr. Hall's Celebrated Catarrh Remedy,
50 cents per bottle (about $12 in 2014 dollars) was backed by a monetary guarantee. One hundred dollars
( = $2,400 today) was to be paid out for any catarrh deafness that could not be cured by Dr. Hall's Celebrated Catarrh Remedy !!. (To collect, you would have to prove it's catarrh, and doesn't fall into that other 10% of causes).
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Hey, wait !! Forget the bearded guy up there. Dr. Moore's ad (BELOW) has a much better deal. His "Aerial Medication" cures ALL types of deafness, not only catarrh ----and he even throws in cures for lung and throat diseases. And you get a free three months trial !!
Read Mr. William's sworn testimonial in the ad below ----deaf 25 years and cured in one week!! Dr. Moore has another ad out with a
Mr. Coleman, also deaf 25 years and now "can hear a clock strike in another room 30 feet away" !! Isn't that amazing ??!!
Dr. Hall's Celebrated Catarrh Remedy,
50 cents per bottle (about $12 in 2014 dollars) was backed by a monetary guarantee. One hundred dollars
( = $2,400 today) was to be paid out for any catarrh deafness that could not be cured by Dr. Hall's Celebrated Catarrh Remedy !!. (To collect, you would have to prove it's catarrh, and doesn't fall into that other 10% of causes).
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Hey, wait !! Forget the bearded guy up there. Dr. Moore's ad (BELOW) has a much better deal. His "Aerial Medication" cures ALL types of deafness, not only catarrh ----and he even throws in cures for lung and throat diseases. And you get a free three months trial !!
Read Mr. William's sworn testimonial in the ad below ----deaf 25 years and cured in one week!! Dr. Moore has another ad out with a
Mr. Coleman, also deaf 25 years and now "can hear a clock strike in another room 30 feet away" !! Isn't that amazing ??!!
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Get Cured with the Actina Ozone Battery
The Actina marvel arrived in the 1890s -----a cure for a host of ailments of the lung, eye, and ear. A metal cylinder 3 inches long, it had two open ends ----the wide one to hold over the eye (for eye ailments), the narrow one against a nostril for inhaling (for the other ailments).
Either way it yielded the vapor of mostly mustard oil in the fabric around the perforated core (see cross-sectional image). Inhaled, the vapor increased mobility of your earbones and also removed catarrh deposits, effectively curing most deafness (since their ad says 98% of all deafness is due to catarrh).
Get Cured with the Actina Ozone Battery
The Actina marvel arrived in the 1890s -----a cure for a host of ailments of the lung, eye, and ear. A metal cylinder 3 inches long, it had two open ends ----the wide one to hold over the eye (for eye ailments), the narrow one against a nostril for inhaling (for the other ailments).
Either way it yielded the vapor of mostly mustard oil in the fabric around the perforated core (see cross-sectional image). Inhaled, the vapor increased mobility of your earbones and also removed catarrh deposits, effectively curing most deafness (since their ad says 98% of all deafness is due to catarrh).
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Actina was advertised as an "ozone battery". The rims touching the skin were zinc-plated and the central part held in your fingers was copper-plated. This caused a bi-metallic (galvanic) reaction, bringing the wonder of electricity into the cures. As a battery it could be "recharged" (that is, reloaded with fresh oils by the manufacturer, for a fee of course).
It retailed at $10 ($270 in 2016 money) or 50% off if you needed to be convinced to buy. It was around for 20 years, so this little marvel must have cured a great many eye, ear. and lung ailments.
It retailed at $10 ($270 in 2016 money) or 50% off if you needed to be convinced to buy. It was around for 20 years, so this little marvel must have cured a great many eye, ear. and lung ailments.
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A Cure in the Afterlife
"I will hear again in heaven" wrote Ludvig von Beethoven before he died.
And he did! The English medium, Rosemary Brown (at left, d. 2001) played unique pieces on the piano dictated by supernatural contact with famous dead composers. She didn't possess the training to create that music herself ---and some experts were flabbergasted.
She reported that Beethoven was not deaf in heaven !!
You can read her interesting obituary via the link below.
We like that part where she needed notes for the cover of a musical album she had just created. She requested them from Sir Donald Tovey, the famous British musicologist and composer. He graciously provided them to her in 1970. (He had died in 1940).
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/nyregion/rosemary-brown-a-friend-of- dead-composers-dies-at-85.html
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And he did! The English medium, Rosemary Brown (at left, d. 2001) played unique pieces on the piano dictated by supernatural contact with famous dead composers. She didn't possess the training to create that music herself ---and some experts were flabbergasted.
She reported that Beethoven was not deaf in heaven !!
You can read her interesting obituary via the link below.
We like that part where she needed notes for the cover of a musical album she had just created. She requested them from Sir Donald Tovey, the famous British musicologist and composer. He graciously provided them to her in 1970. (He had died in 1940).
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/nyregion/rosemary-brown-a-friend-of- dead-composers-dies-at-85.html
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"People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and
author of the classic "On Death and Dying"
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and
author of the classic "On Death and Dying"
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Henry, the Fellow Below from Chicago........
................. with all that poetry blasting out of his left ear, is an "M.P.C.S."
(whatever an M.P.C.S. is). His ad, below, asks why you'd want to remain deaf. It says he doesn't monkey with mere experimenting -------he CURES !!
---right in your own home!---via "The Life Method"----involving no devices, contraptions, drugs, nor similar nonsense. So, how does he do it? By chiropractics, reflexology, hypnotism, witchcraft...... ? Send away for his free booklet to find out.
Not convinced he's worth consulting? Read Henry's parting scream at the bottom of his ad, "SILENCE IS AS DEATH". OMG, any port in a storm !!
................. with all that poetry blasting out of his left ear, is an "M.P.C.S."
(whatever an M.P.C.S. is). His ad, below, asks why you'd want to remain deaf. It says he doesn't monkey with mere experimenting -------he CURES !!
---right in your own home!---via "The Life Method"----involving no devices, contraptions, drugs, nor similar nonsense. So, how does he do it? By chiropractics, reflexology, hypnotism, witchcraft...... ? Send away for his free booklet to find out.
Not convinced he's worth consulting? Read Henry's parting scream at the bottom of his ad, "SILENCE IS AS DEATH". OMG, any port in a storm !!
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The Electro-Pneumatic Pump-&-Shock Deafness Cure
The high-tech wonder of its time!
Dr. Guy Clifford Powell's "Electro-Pneumatic Apparatus for the Cure of Deafness", was made in Peoria
c. 1905. It pumped air into and out of the ears, while sending electrical shocks through the head with water-soaked electrodes stuffed into the
ear canals.
It was sold via advertising, direct to the user, and retailed then for $100 (which is about $2,750 today).
Dr. Powell says in his ad:
"Deafness Cured at Last. Wonderful New Discovery for the Positive Cure of Deafness and Head Noises. At last, after years of study and research, the wonderful Nature Forces have been harnessed together and Deafness can be cured. If I did not know positively that my method could cure I would not allow my name to be connected with this treatment."
For a very detailed description of his
Pump-&-Shock marvel, go to: http://www.nolindan.com/lindancollection/ql208.html
c. 1905. It pumped air into and out of the ears, while sending electrical shocks through the head with water-soaked electrodes stuffed into the
ear canals.
It was sold via advertising, direct to the user, and retailed then for $100 (which is about $2,750 today).
Dr. Powell says in his ad:
"Deafness Cured at Last. Wonderful New Discovery for the Positive Cure of Deafness and Head Noises. At last, after years of study and research, the wonderful Nature Forces have been harnessed together and Deafness can be cured. If I did not know positively that my method could cure I would not allow my name to be connected with this treatment."
For a very detailed description of his
Pump-&-Shock marvel, go to: http://www.nolindan.com/lindancollection/ql208.html
Meet the Mesmerizing
Dr. Guy C. Powell of
Pump-&-Shock Fame
Dr. Guy Clifford Powell's ad assures us that his device (above) makes deafness and tinnitus "disappear as if by magic", regardless of the
cause and duration.
It claims the results of this treatment developed by this "famous physician-scientist have left the world astounded".
Dr. Guy C. Powell of
Pump-&-Shock Fame
Dr. Guy Clifford Powell's ad assures us that his device (above) makes deafness and tinnitus "disappear as if by magic", regardless of the
cause and duration.
It claims the results of this treatment developed by this "famous physician-scientist have left the world astounded".
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Have You Tried Monophasic Diathermy?
Have You Tried Monophasic Diathermy?
This (OMG !!) Frankenstein helmet, made of brass in Italy in the latter 19th century, would scare the pants off anyone. Well, that's only because you are seeing it with all its applicators in place (and that frightening storage dummy is of no help).
Relax !! Although the whole caboodle sits on your head, only what's needed to cure a particular disorder, will be activated. E.g., note the two coiled cables attached to the proper pins for treatment only of migraine headache.
It applied monophasic current (stop-and-go pulses of a special peaked waveform) to the skin, causing rapid contractions of muscles and tissues. You can see the adaptors for curing deafness and eye disorders, along with those for numerous other cures.
Relax !! Although the whole caboodle sits on your head, only what's needed to cure a particular disorder, will be activated. E.g., note the two coiled cables attached to the proper pins for treatment only of migraine headache.
It applied monophasic current (stop-and-go pulses of a special peaked waveform) to the skin, causing rapid contractions of muscles and tissues. You can see the adaptors for curing deafness and eye disorders, along with those for numerous other cures.
Here's another monophasic diathermy device, an advanced 1920's version ----shown here for curing deafness. Wow, look at that chest with its giant battery bank and monophasic wave generator. Science and medicine march on together!
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"Incurably Deaf"? Find Your Cure in Dr. Hovent's
Opulent Air-Bath Grande Salon
Dr. Julian J. Hovent of Brussels was an "aerotherapeutist", or one who cures with air (a title coined at that time, probably by himself). He cured deafness in the 1890s by raising the atmospheric pressure within a sealed chamber. Two weeks of 3-hour sessions in one of these elaborate chambers, produced wonder cures described in his book, "A New Treatment of the
So-Called Incurably Deaf People". Note the cozy living room decor within the chamber, in which to relax as you get cured.
OMG, look at those monster hermetic chambers and man-sized tanks of compressed air ! The financial investment was obviously enormous. Surely this must have been very effective in its purpose.
Read about this marvel on the UCL Institute site where we found it:
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2013/03/
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So-Called Incurably Deaf People". Note the cozy living room decor within the chamber, in which to relax as you get cured.
OMG, look at those monster hermetic chambers and man-sized tanks of compressed air ! The financial investment was obviously enormous. Surely this must have been very effective in its purpose.
Read about this marvel on the UCL Institute site where we found it:
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2013/03/
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"Hopelessly" Deaf 20 years? Have You Tried Dr. Cooper's Ethereal Oil?
Read the ad, below, and be convinced.
("Ethereal" = something too exquisite for this world)
Cooper's Ethereal Oil, "acoustic medicine" derived from walnut bark and three other wonder substances, has provided (according to its ad, below) a "perfect cure" for "hundreds of cases" of deafness "deemed utterly hopeless". Since it was around for 15 years from 1840, a few swigs of this "prompt and lasting remedy" must have cured a lot of deafness. It sold for $2 a bottle (about $50 in today's money).
Read the ad, below, and be convinced.
("Ethereal" = something too exquisite for this world)
Cooper's Ethereal Oil, "acoustic medicine" derived from walnut bark and three other wonder substances, has provided (according to its ad, below) a "perfect cure" for "hundreds of cases" of deafness "deemed utterly hopeless". Since it was around for 15 years from 1840, a few swigs of this "prompt and lasting remedy" must have cured a lot of deafness. It sold for $2 a bottle (about $50 in today's money).
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Hey, wait !! There were other oils to cure deafness, perhaps more effectively. One was Dr. McNair's OIl. In a sales gimmick aimed at certain European immigrants, it got cloned as "Dr. Larzetti's Oil".
There was of course no Dr. Larzetti, but there must have been a real Dr. McNair somewhere. __________________________________________ 
Want To Get Cured
---in 48 Hours? As advertised, Dr. S.N. Thomas' Eclectric Oil could cure deafness in two days. It could cure 15 other ills as well. It sold for 70 years from the 1840's on. The catchy non-word "eclectric" combined its variety of cures with the mystic of electricity (which had nothing to do with it ---it was made of alcohol, turpentine, camphor, oil of tar, and a spitoon full of other ingredients.) For curing deafness, it was to be either vaporized or applied as a liniment to the mastoid bones. Who could resist that cute kitten? _____________________________________ |
White Eagle's Indian Oil was a liniment for rheumatism, hay fever, stiff joints, and all that, but you needed to inhale its vapor to cure your catarrh deafness. Originally, it was Rattlesnake Oil as were several other "old Indian remedy" oils.
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Inhale your cure from the Eureka Nebulizer
This is the tabletop version of the Eureka Nebulizer, an American-made vaporizer from 1900. You pressurize it via its hand pump. You then breathe the forced vapor from one (or a combination) of the differently-compounded liquids, depending on what is to be cured. (Read the instructions !!) It cured respiratory diseases, and deafness as well "by massaging the middle ear".
("Eureka"= an expression of joy at the moment of a great discovery).
("To Nebulize"= to create a vapor or spray from a liquid).
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("Eureka"= an expression of joy at the moment of a great discovery).
("To Nebulize"= to create a vapor or spray from a liquid).
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Cure Yourself With
Dr. Coutant's Home Treatment Dr. George E. Coutant, MD of New York City, advertised his Coutant Home Treatment Cure for Deafness in the 1890s and for almost 30 years after, in full-page ads and through a scholarly 32-page booklet. He claimed a 95% cure-rate. His kit contained a glass nasal douche, tablets for making douching and gargling solutions, a salve for your mastoid bones, and varieties of pills. Seen at the top is his hi-tech "Kotalizer", a metal nasal inhaler (stuffed with mustard oil like the Actina, above, plus camphor and whatnot). Quite impressive. If no result, you were urged to continue purchasing kits until cured. They went for $10 or $5, or finally $3 depending on how much of a push you needed to renew ($10 then is $270 today). ___________________________ |
The Complete Courant Home Treatment Cure Exclusively for Deafness and Tinnitus, Including the "Kotalizer"
("Kotalizer" = his catch-word for catalyzer, to accelerate a reaction)
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OH, BTW...... You've surely noticed in our articles, that money back then was worth much more than it is today (e.g. that $10 for Dr. Courant's miracle cure in the 1890s is like $270 today). It's ongoing. Every dollar in your pocket today will be worth less a year from now. How come? Read
The Inflation Swindle by Ernest J. Oppenheimer, Prentice Hall, 1977.
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The Inflation Swindle by Ernest J. Oppenheimer, Prentice Hall, 1977.
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For Less Fuss, Try Dr. Coffee's Single-Substance Cure
Now if you don't want to choke on pills or stick applicators up your nose, consider Dr. William O. Coffee's single-substance cure for deafness, his Ointment #48.
Merely apply a small glob twice daily into each nostril and inhale deeply until consumed. Repeat until your deafness is gone. Simple?
Merely apply a small glob twice daily into each nostril and inhale deeply until consumed. Repeat until your deafness is gone. Simple?
Dr. Coffee was a midwest opthamologist of dubious credentials, who nevertheless created salves and such to cure ocular diseases. As his stuff was peddled for 45 years (1882 - 1927), he must have cured a lot of blindness.
To spread his cures more liberally, he threw in a few ointments for other ills, including this "Prescription No. 48 Treatment for Deafness".
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Have You Tried Hearium Radiation?
Radiation became a fascinating thing when radium was discovered in 1898. In the early 1920's, a Dr. Chas. Lensky of St. Luis manufactured and sold his " Radium Ear" for the cure of deafness. We are still trying to dig up details.
Dr. Lensky claimed it cured deafness via gamma radiation from "Hearium".
We don't see Hearium in the Table of Elements. It might have been a blob of clay-like substance containing radium salts, or something else he dug up in his back yard.
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Radiation became a fascinating thing when radium was discovered in 1898. In the early 1920's, a Dr. Chas. Lensky of St. Luis manufactured and sold his " Radium Ear" for the cure of deafness. We are still trying to dig up details.
Dr. Lensky claimed it cured deafness via gamma radiation from "Hearium".
We don't see Hearium in the Table of Elements. It might have been a blob of clay-like substance containing radium salts, or something else he dug up in his back yard.
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Crystal Clear Hearing in 17 Days !!
The 200-year old generation-to-generation Amish secret for turning deafness into "crystal clear" hearing within 17 days, is finally revealed NOW in this e~Book !!
45,000 successful cures are claimed to stand behind it. The priceless secret is yours for 50% off, or $39.95. Type "AMISH 17-DAY CURE" into Google. Don't let this one get away !!
The 200-year old generation-to-generation Amish secret for turning deafness into "crystal clear" hearing within 17 days, is finally revealed NOW in this e~Book !!
45,000 successful cures are claimed to stand behind it. The priceless secret is yours for 50% off, or $39.95. Type "AMISH 17-DAY CURE" into Google. Don't let this one get away !!
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Meet Dr. Ignoramus
Dr. Jean-Marc Itard, the eminent French surgeon, founded otolaryngology, discovered Tourette’s Syndrome, co-discovered Itard-Cholewa’s Syndrome, invented the Eustachian catheter, etc.
Impressive. However, this glory-seeking medical ignoramus, while resident physician at the school,
The National Institute for Deaf Mutes in Paris in the lower 19th Century, performed a long series of crackpot experiments on over 125 students to cure their deafness. He managed to seriously infect most of them, burn and mutilate ears, crack some skulls (with a hammer whack on the mastoid bone), and kill one of them ----restoring no one's hearing. You won’t see the gory details in Wikipedia. Read pp. 132ff in When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf, by Harlan Lane (PB, 1989, Vintage).
Quoting Dr. Itard from the same book after he finally threw in the towel:
"Medicine does not work on the dead, and as far as I am concerned the ear is dead in the deaf mute. There is nothing for science to do
about it".
He also flopped in applying his own teaching methods to provide speech to the deaf students. And in 40 years at that school, he never learned to sign.
There's much to learn about this strange character in the drama of Deaf Culture history.
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Meet Some More of Them
There's a 22-page collection of attempts to cure deafness at that time, by various other medical ignoramuses. It's a serious academic presentation that reads almost like a novel. If you're the type that peeks at the end of a novel to learn what happened, we'll do it for you now. The final sentence on the last page says, "....congenital deafness cannot be cured". Sorry, folks. (You would have reached the same opinion 12 pages earlier).
You can read the whole thing here:
http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/handle/1961/10234?show=full
Click on "OUTPUT. PDF" near bottom, under FILES.
Meet another Dr. Ignoramus on our Page 6, MacLeod Yearsly, FRCS.
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Impressive. However, this glory-seeking medical ignoramus, while resident physician at the school,
The National Institute for Deaf Mutes in Paris in the lower 19th Century, performed a long series of crackpot experiments on over 125 students to cure their deafness. He managed to seriously infect most of them, burn and mutilate ears, crack some skulls (with a hammer whack on the mastoid bone), and kill one of them ----restoring no one's hearing. You won’t see the gory details in Wikipedia. Read pp. 132ff in When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf, by Harlan Lane (PB, 1989, Vintage).
Quoting Dr. Itard from the same book after he finally threw in the towel:
"Medicine does not work on the dead, and as far as I am concerned the ear is dead in the deaf mute. There is nothing for science to do
about it".
He also flopped in applying his own teaching methods to provide speech to the deaf students. And in 40 years at that school, he never learned to sign.
There's much to learn about this strange character in the drama of Deaf Culture history.
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Meet Some More of Them
There's a 22-page collection of attempts to cure deafness at that time, by various other medical ignoramuses. It's a serious academic presentation that reads almost like a novel. If you're the type that peeks at the end of a novel to learn what happened, we'll do it for you now. The final sentence on the last page says, "....congenital deafness cannot be cured". Sorry, folks. (You would have reached the same opinion 12 pages earlier).
You can read the whole thing here:
http://aladinrc.wrlc.org/handle/1961/10234?show=full
Click on "OUTPUT. PDF" near bottom, under FILES.
Meet another Dr. Ignoramus on our Page 6, MacLeod Yearsly, FRCS.
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(BELOW) From newspaper classifieds, ca. 1900. On requesting his "book of
proofs", be sure to apply to "F.Hiscox only" (not just plain old F. Hiscox) as directed in his ad. He has several competitors in that 853 Broadway building. He alone wants the honor of curing your deafness and tinnitus with his amazing "Invisible Tubular Cushions". ( We are still trying to find out what a "tubular cushion" might be).
proofs", be sure to apply to "F.Hiscox only" (not just plain old F. Hiscox) as directed in his ad. He has several competitors in that 853 Broadway building. He alone wants the honor of curing your deafness and tinnitus with his amazing "Invisible Tubular Cushions". ( We are still trying to find out what a "tubular cushion" might be).
Mr. Hiscox found someone to unscramble his sloppy home-made ad, above, so it would look more suitable to include in a periodical for physicians, below.
_________________________________________________________________(BELOW, 1899) Mr.Tindall, who "tried every known treatment and device
without help", offers to cure your deafness with the same "Galvanic Electricity" that he cured himself with. For information, be sure to send that requested postage stamp with your address. Otherwise, he won't send you anything and you'll remain deaf and "most frantic with head noises".
without help", offers to cure your deafness with the same "Galvanic Electricity" that he cured himself with. For information, be sure to send that requested postage stamp with your address. Otherwise, he won't send you anything and you'll remain deaf and "most frantic with head noises".
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Dr. Prager's
Monster BoomBox
Deafness due to stiffness in the inner ear bones can be cured by exercising the eardrums, which shakes up the ear bones, according to
Dr. J. B. Prager.
His monster boom box from the 1930's bombards the patient's earphones with sounds of screaming fire engines, roaring thunder, dynamite explosions, and crashing ocean waves. OMG, what a holy racket !! Must have produced a lot of migraine headaches along with the deafness cures.
Was it successful? Who knows? We can't find anything further on this procedure. This thing may have inspired those ghetto-blasting boom boxes that arrived in the 1960's, that kept the whole block awake at night.
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A device 20 years earlier, the De-A-Fone (read "deaf-phone) by the Deafone Company, was a racket-maker on the same principle.
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Monster BoomBox
Deafness due to stiffness in the inner ear bones can be cured by exercising the eardrums, which shakes up the ear bones, according to
Dr. J. B. Prager.
His monster boom box from the 1930's bombards the patient's earphones with sounds of screaming fire engines, roaring thunder, dynamite explosions, and crashing ocean waves. OMG, what a holy racket !! Must have produced a lot of migraine headaches along with the deafness cures.
Was it successful? Who knows? We can't find anything further on this procedure. This thing may have inspired those ghetto-blasting boom boxes that arrived in the 1960's, that kept the whole block awake at night.
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A device 20 years earlier, the De-A-Fone (read "deaf-phone) by the Deafone Company, was a racket-maker on the same principle.
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Exercising the inner ear, and any residual hearing, was done even 30 or 40 years earlier with this pretty-looking thing, the Vibraphone. Tones of adjustable loudness were generated in the headset by electrically vibrating the body of a violin. There were most likely other devices before and after this one, for the same purpose.
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How Did These Three Deaf Geniuses Join Our Club?
(Ever heard of neurolabyrinthitis, ostospongiose, or
Vogt-Kayanagi-Harada Syndrome? OMG !!)
(Ever heard of neurolabyrinthitis, ostospongiose, or
Vogt-Kayanagi-Harada Syndrome? OMG !!)
Goya (on the left) holds the record for possible causes of his deafness. We will never know. Why not? Find out on Page 15, bottom.
Beethoven (center) comes in next (with quite a load). See Page 13.
For Edison, see Page 11.
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Beethoven (center) comes in next (with quite a load). See Page 13.
For Edison, see Page 11.
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"Yuppie Deafness" A few decades ago, impulsive young professional people ("yuppies"), awakened by their cordless phones, grabbed for the phone. The groggy (or drunk) yuppy punctured his/her eardrum with the stiff wire antenna (often with the padded tip missing by sloppy handling Eardrums punctured from this were common enough to earn the unofficial medical term, "yuppie deafness".
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Oh yes, it does have its advantages !
Oh yes, it does have its advantages !
9) Exerpt from a letter to the Editor, New York Times, 12/28/05
"[Your article on our city's noise problem] did not mention a rampant source of intense noise. The current world record for snoring is 90 deciBels. This is much louder than standing next to a diesel bus engine. ....... Not only is this disruptive for next-door residents, but also for spouses, bed mates, and relationships."
Note: The present reported but unconfirmed snoring record is 102 dB. A bass note of that power, is enough to make an empty wine glass walk off a table six feet away. It has been reported that very loud snoring can make a closed window shade suddenly snap up with a loud bang, scaring the holy wits out of hearing sleepers. Remember, normal hearing is the only sense that does not shut off completely during sleep.
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From the Mouths of a Few Great Sages and Philosophers
"[Your article on our city's noise problem] did not mention a rampant source of intense noise. The current world record for snoring is 90 deciBels. This is much louder than standing next to a diesel bus engine. ....... Not only is this disruptive for next-door residents, but also for spouses, bed mates, and relationships."
Note: The present reported but unconfirmed snoring record is 102 dB. A bass note of that power, is enough to make an empty wine glass walk off a table six feet away. It has been reported that very loud snoring can make a closed window shade suddenly snap up with a loud bang, scaring the holy wits out of hearing sleepers. Remember, normal hearing is the only sense that does not shut off completely during sleep.
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From the Mouths of a Few Great Sages and Philosophers
"Anything too stupid to be spoken, is sung". Voltaire (d. 1778) 
"A closed mouth gathers no flies". Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790) |
"He who speaks, knows not; he who speaks not, knows. Silence is an enormous source of strength".
Lao Tzu, 600 BCE |
Favor me with silence".
Horace (d. 0008 BCE) 
"Silence is the greatest thing humankind learns".
Palladas, 4th Century |
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(LEFT) "Blow your nose and sound like a trombone". (From the Johnson-Smith novelties catalog).
"What is worse than a clarinet? Answer: Two clarinets". Ambrose Bierce
"Don't talk except to improve the silence". Old Vermont Proverb
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Excerpt, letter from an MD to the Editor, New York Times, 12/5/02---
"........my wife and I moved to Greenwich Village ...... there's no other place we'd rather inhabit. Then we discovered motorcycles. At 2 in the morning,
4 in the morning ---on some nights every 15 minutes--- a shattering jackhammer din blasts past our window. ... [After they stop at ] the next intersection, the audible testosterone storm is repeated, resurging block after block after block. ----you're left a choice: leave town or sleep by bits".
(Historical note: Roman law included ordinances against the clatter of chariot wheels on cobbled pavement at night. Some residential areas in medieval Europe kept roads covered with straw to lessen the nighttime noise of carriages.)
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Excerpt from a letter to the Editor, Our Town (New York City, 11/06)
"What is the nature of the .....craft that ply the East River driven by racing engines that sound like a thundering squadron of attacking PT boats? Nothing produces a comparable deafening roar that echoes off buildings on both sides of the river, and lingers long after the craft is gone. How can one sleep in this city?".
A computer programming firm was located in the old ex-Lincoln Hotel in New York City. Moderate rent, but scary: remnants of gas lamp piping; staircase banisters in big swirls of black cast iron; doors ten feet high; gloomy and shadowy hallways painted dull green.
Eight female employees-- 6 hearing and 2 deaf, were constructing massive spreadsheets for a public school system. Their contract had a stiff lateness penalty; they were far behind and in a panic. To catch up, time-and-half was offered for overnight shifts. No takers.
A lawyer in the next office had advised them not to stay there late. He swore he sometimes hears faint voices coming out of the walls at night.
A frightened night-shift security guard quit after hearing locked doors open and close on floors dark and empty of people. And a woman swore she heard the flush of an old-fashioned gravity toilet, while passing a locked door, originally a hall lavatory stripped of plumbing many decades ago.
In short, the place was haunted.
The overnight shift offer went up to double-time plus breakfast and cabs. The two deaf employees took it. The whole hearing bunch cleared out of there in a fright before the early winter darkness. The deaf couple cleaned up on the overtime.
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"....if noise is the signature tune of the world, silence is the music of the other world. Silence is the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres ..... In silence .... it seems as if all the windows of the world are thrown open and everything is clear as a morning after rain." Pico Iyer, Essayist
"What is worse than a clarinet? Answer: Two clarinets". Ambrose Bierce
"Don't talk except to improve the silence". Old Vermont Proverb
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Excerpt, letter from an MD to the Editor, New York Times, 12/5/02---
"........my wife and I moved to Greenwich Village ...... there's no other place we'd rather inhabit. Then we discovered motorcycles. At 2 in the morning,
4 in the morning ---on some nights every 15 minutes--- a shattering jackhammer din blasts past our window. ... [After they stop at ] the next intersection, the audible testosterone storm is repeated, resurging block after block after block. ----you're left a choice: leave town or sleep by bits".
(Historical note: Roman law included ordinances against the clatter of chariot wheels on cobbled pavement at night. Some residential areas in medieval Europe kept roads covered with straw to lessen the nighttime noise of carriages.)
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Excerpt from a letter to the Editor, Our Town (New York City, 11/06)
"What is the nature of the .....craft that ply the East River driven by racing engines that sound like a thundering squadron of attacking PT boats? Nothing produces a comparable deafening roar that echoes off buildings on both sides of the river, and lingers long after the craft is gone. How can one sleep in this city?".
A computer programming firm was located in the old ex-Lincoln Hotel in New York City. Moderate rent, but scary: remnants of gas lamp piping; staircase banisters in big swirls of black cast iron; doors ten feet high; gloomy and shadowy hallways painted dull green.
Eight female employees-- 6 hearing and 2 deaf, were constructing massive spreadsheets for a public school system. Their contract had a stiff lateness penalty; they were far behind and in a panic. To catch up, time-and-half was offered for overnight shifts. No takers.
A lawyer in the next office had advised them not to stay there late. He swore he sometimes hears faint voices coming out of the walls at night.
A frightened night-shift security guard quit after hearing locked doors open and close on floors dark and empty of people. And a woman swore she heard the flush of an old-fashioned gravity toilet, while passing a locked door, originally a hall lavatory stripped of plumbing many decades ago.
In short, the place was haunted.
The overnight shift offer went up to double-time plus breakfast and cabs. The two deaf employees took it. The whole hearing bunch cleared out of there in a fright before the early winter darkness. The deaf couple cleaned up on the overtime.
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"....if noise is the signature tune of the world, silence is the music of the other world. Silence is the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres ..... In silence .... it seems as if all the windows of the world are thrown open and everything is clear as a morning after rain." Pico Iyer, Essayist
"When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument". Ben Okri, Nigerian Novelist
"By deafness, one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Horace Walpole
"By deafness, one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
Horace Walpole
