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to her, and is become very ufeful in the family where 
fhe lives. This is the more extraordinary, as her ex- 
ternal ears have a continual fpafmodical motion, 
which indicates a difordered ftate of the nerves of 
her ears. 
November 30, 1754, A— ^ aged twenty-feven, 
deaf in both ears, from cold, and of two years {land- 
ing, one much worfe than the other, I began with 
the deafeft, and extracted much wax, &c. from the 
external meatus, without the lead benefit ; but on 
fyringing the tube of that ear, Ihe received fo much 
relief that fhe can hear confiderably better with it 
than the other. I then injedled the other ear, on 
which it produced no alteration at all, though repeated 
feveral times. 
February i, 1755, A A deaf to thegreatefl 
degree imaginable, could underfland only one parti- 
cular perfon, whofe voice, or rather phyfiognomy, he 
had long been ufed to. He had been thus for eigh- 
teen years, and was fuddenly feized, or as it were 
' flruck, with this diforder, together with an affedlion 
of his eyes, which prefented a variety of colours con- 
tinually floating before them, to the great detriment 
of his fight ; and this, together with his deafnefs, has 
continued, with very little alteration, till the latter- 
end of January lafl, about which time I fy ringed his 
euftachian tubes, by which he inftantly heard his 
own voice, which he could not in the leafl before. 
I repeated the operation for three or four times, at a 
day or two diflance from each other. He foon 
perceived a remarkable alteration for the better, to- 
gether with this peculiar circumftance, that if fpoke 
to as loud as was before necelTary, the found irri- 
tated his ear, caufing a very painful titillation, or (as 
F f 2 he 
