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...machine consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. Mostly decoration, the pink shell of the outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long, protective canal to the eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted through the three delicate lever-bones of the middle ear-the "hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with fluid, lined with feathery nerve endings...
Middle Ear. Most common cause of dim hearing is middle-ear injury and scarring-caused in turn by violent nose-blowing, infection of the Eustachian tube or the heavy mastoid bone which bulges out behind the ear. Safest maxim for ear-picking children: "Nothing smaller than the elbow should ever be put into the ear." Mastoid infections occur most frequently in children under twelve, for their delicate membranes are not tough enough to withstand bacterial assault. Standard procedure for mastoid infections is surgical removal of wedges of the infected bone...
...pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...
...these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
...came shortly afterwards, on December 17, 1830. Wasted to skin & bone, coughing blood, racked with hemorrhoids, the 47-year-old Liberator cried out in his last delirium: "José! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here...