Notes on the functional examination of the ear by means of the voice / by Duncan Matheson Mackay.

  • Mackay, Duncan Matheson.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Notes on the functional examination of the ear by means of the voice / by Duncan Matheson Mackay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    II. All the words in the second group contain the most difficult of the vowel-sounds, namely, “ u,” and one or more of the difficult consonants, “ m,” “ n,” “ 1,” ■■ r ” :—Loo - loom - loon - lure - moo - moon - moor - noon - room - rue - rule - rumour - rune. III. In the third group are the intermediate (middle or mixed) words, having one or more of the consonants, b,” ■“ p,” “ k,” c ” (hard c ”). t,” d ” ; and also one of the vowel-sounds of medium difficulty. These words I have arranged further into three classes, each class containing words a little more difficult of recognition than those in the one preceding it :— (а) Words having the medium vowel-sound ■“ e ” ; (б) Words having the slightly easier vowel-sound “i ; (c) Words having the slightly harder vowel-sound ‘ ‘o.” (a) Ache - aid - ape - ate - bade - bait - bake - bay - cade - cake - cape - Kate - paid - pate - take - tape - Tate. (b) Bead - beak - beat - bee - bib - bid - bit - Dick - did - dip - ditty - eat - keep - key - kid - kit - peat - pick - pip - pique - pit - tea - teak - teat - teed-tip- tit - Tydd. (c) Boat - bob - bode - coat - cob - cock - cod - code - coke - cope - cot - dock - dot - dote-pock- pod - poke - pop - pope - pot - toad - tod - toe - top - tope - toque - tot. It is obvious that mixed words are the most plentiful. And they are the most important, for, of course, they approach most nearly in their sound-values to ordinary speech, which is what the patient probably most wishes to hear. Other mixed words of considerable value are numerals. But simple words, such as appear in this list, have the great advantage that the whole word must be heard before the patient can repeat it ; in the case of polysyllabic words it is often possible to recognise, in its entirety, a word of which various letters have been missed. And, further, the ability to repeat a long word depends in part upon the strength of the memory, and such a word is not therefore a pure test of hearing. The Examination in Practice. A few notes on the actual examination of the hearing by means of the human voice, as practised by Professor Politzer and his assistants, may be acceptable to some