WESTON T E, GALBRAITH W, CAWTHORNE T
Proc R Soc Med. 1965 Aug;58(8):637-42. doi: 10.1177/003591576505800838.
Dr T E T Weston describes his research into the effect of noise on hearing acuity and of deafness in the aged. He found that presbyacusis is associated with a multiplicity of factors, e.g. smoking, circulatory disturbance, urban domicile, heredity and occupational acoustic trauma.Miss W Galbraith describes the social implications of various degrees of deafness and the ways in which they can be overcome by such measures as lipreading, hearing aids and rehabilitation.Sir Terence Cawthorne discusses otosclerosis, nearly 1% of the population being affected by this type of deafness. He describes the modern operation of insertion of an artificial piston through the stapes and states that 90% of cases submitted to this operation will show immediate improvement, whilst 85% should still have retained this improvement at the end of two years.
T·E·T·韦斯顿博士描述了他对噪音对听力敏锐度的影响以及老年人耳聋问题的研究。他发现老年性耳聋与多种因素有关，例如吸烟、循环系统紊乱、居住在城市、遗传以及职业性声学创伤。W·加尔布雷斯小姐描述了不同程度耳聋的社会影响，以及通过唇读、助听器和康复等措施可以克服这些影响的方式。特伦斯·考索恩爵士讨论了耳硬化症，近1%的人口受这种类型的耳聋影响。他描述了通过镫骨植入人工活塞的现代手术，并指出接受该手术的病例中有90%会立即改善，而两年后仍有85%的人应能保持这种改善。
