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Last week, steady and alert, the young man marched into a scientific meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine with some 50 patients of 48-year-old Otolaryngologist Julius Lempert. All had been cured of apparently hopeless deafness by an operation of hairbreadth delicacy, developed in Europe 15 years ago. Its name: "endaural fenestration...
...middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...
HARVARD M.I.T. Whitbeck, No. 1 No. 1, Lytle Ingalls, No. 2 No. 2, Fisher Rooman, No. 3 No. 3, Weatherbee Wilkinson, No. 4 No. 4, Newman Baughman, No. 5 No. 5, Fenlon Jarrell, No. 6 No. 6, Lempert...