The times., 1897-04-21

are often constant day and night. in
some cases these noises occur like the
ringing of bells, the buzzing OF d bee, the
hiss of escaping steam, or the roar like
that made by waterfall Those who
suffer from such distressing noises, while
often only slightly annoyed during the
daytime. imagine the noises are much
worse at night, because the external noises
of life during the day serve to partially
drown those heard within the head When
the tube that leads from the throat to the
car drum is free and open and in health,
the waves of sound coming from without
are conveyed along the channel leading
down to the ear drum, and these sound
waves cause the little drum TO vibrate and
repeat the sound to the inner chambers OF
the ear. where they are taken up by nerves
and carried to the brain. After these
sound waves have done their duty they
pass out through the tube that leads from
the middle ca to the throat and are lost
and gone.
When these tubes are blocked up the
sound waves, after entering the middle
ear, and travelling along the channels and
passages and canals of the inner ear, ana
having done their duty, finding no open
ing for escape into the throat, remain III
the ear, and one set Of sound waves
,ningle with other and entirely different
sound waves, until there is formed con
fused tumble tnat never leaves, remain
ing ever present, assuming the form oil
one of the peculiar varieties or ear noises
that are so commonly heard. This Is the
exclamation of those ringing noises IN the
ears which so often warn the patent oI
approaching deafness, and so often iic-
romnauy deafness. This is what the doc
tors mean by TinnItus Aurium.
If YOU go in deep cave and have the
entrance blocked up behind you so thft
there will be no outlet for the air that is
contained in the cavern, and then cry out
aloud. YOU will hear the Cry repeated from
chamber TO chamber, from gallery 10 gal
Ierv. until 1t comes back to You mulOi-
plied. increased and confused as a coliec-
tion of discordant sounds, and enureiy
different fIom the original cry that you
uttered, and the entire cave will echo and
re-echo and repeat and vlbrate with the
waves Of sound, until at last there Will be
heard an indistinct hum, which so per-
meates the imprisoned air that IL can al
most be felt by the superficial nerves or
the hody This / s the same thing that oc-
curs in the caverns of the ear when their
outlet. the Fustachian tube, is blocked up
by disease.
Now. before any marked sense of lost
hearing i s observed, great many people
notice the confused and ringing noises
In the ear. They notice they hear better
In a crowd or in noisy street car, where
the rattle aud hum of the machinery is
taking place, than they can in the quiet
or their own homes. The reason for this
is that the busy sounds Of life drown the
internal head noises and allow in a noisy
place the external sounds to be analyZed,
while in a more quiet place the head noises
make such an impression that ordinary
conversation is heard muffled and indis-
tinct.
One OF the very first signs that the
hearing i S about to fall is the presence of
ringing noises in the head. During the
day the pleasures Of person so affected
are seriously interfcred with, while dur
ing the night that follows a succession of
horrors is presented winch In many in
stances render refreshing sleep impossi-
BILE. During the treatment Of deafness
the usual course is TO get the rim ging noises
60 cease, and this often happens some
little time before Improvement In the hear
ing is noticed