The Phonogram, Vol. 2:4-5 (1892-04)

THE PHONOGRAM ulated so as to rouse into action and vitality the ossicles or chain of bones of the middle ear that have become anchy- losed or immovable, be the cause what it may. In other cases the vibrations may be regulated with greater frequency and less intensity, and thus restore the func- tion of the involved auditory nerve and internal ear.” Many eases of marked improvement are now noticed. Prominent among them is that of Mr. J. W. Somers, a well-known citizen of Washington, who has been deaf for years, and has tried in vain every other known method of treatment. The Columbia Phonograph Co., of Washington, D. C. have for sale cylinders especially prepared for this purpose, v. A Miracle of Modern Times Performed by Aid of the Phonograph. It is the thin end of the wedge. If you can get one little sound, one little note of the proper pitch in the deaf ear, it is only a question of time, and not a very long time, when yon can open the car to every sound. If you can get a vibratory force of the required intensity to play into the ear, the sound-conducting mechanism may be set in motion again and the deaf be made to hear. The means for introducing a steady stream of sound into the ear has been found in the Edison phonograph ; and progressive specialists have taken up the invention and are rapidly developing its Changes in the Management of the use in a field of. which probably the great Florida Phonograph Company. inventor never dreamed. Phonograph cylinders are prepared so as to reproduce Mr. F. \\ ohlgemuth, manager of the vibrations of any intensity and in any Georgia Phonograph Company, has re order of succession required, and, more cently been also appointed to take charge than that, keep on reproducing them to of the Florida Phonograph Company, an extent that might be exceedingly tire- Jacksonville, Fla., Mr. L. R. Rigelow, some to the perfect ear, but is as refresh- the foitner superintendent, having re- ing as the sweetest music to the ear that signed. is just being awakened to the new life. We have no doubt under the manage- Said Dr. George H. Leech of Washington ment of Mr. Wohlgemuth affairs will D. C. : “ The principle of treatment by assume a lively pice. He says : which the hearing is restored is the massage “The Georgia Company has now arrived or mechanical stimulation, and consequent at that satisfactory state of having a surplus awakening to life of the sound-conducting over expenses each month, and confidently apparatus of the ear by means of vibra- looks forward to a prosperous career. The tory force conveyed from the cylinder of receipts from its slot machines are steadily a phonograph to the parts inv-lved. The maintained, the result of close inspection phonograph produces this wonderful re- and care, and it has a long list of sub- suit by impressing upon the parts involved scribers for business machines, many of a series of continuous, successive vibra- whom are entering on their fourth year. tions or sounds at regular intervals. The “ The Florida Company, although not in character, frequency and intensity of the such a happy condition, having received a vibrations are regulnted and controlled severe check to its prosjterity by losing according to the exigencies of the case all its property in a disastrous fire that under treatment. For instance, in a cer- occurred August last, has not lost heart, tain case the sounds may consist-of a series but intends to hold its own and push for- of intensified shocks, so to speak, reg- ward steadily to renewed success.”