Excerpt from Archives of Otology, 1893, Vol. 22: Edited in English and German The hearing was tested in a room sixteen metres long, the ear not tested being closed by the little finger inserted into the external meatus; care was also taken that the patient should not look at the investigator during the tests. Only those persons who were able to repeat perfectly, at this distance, numbers of two figures, whispered as Bezold advises with residual air, and who could also hear the Politzer acou meter distinctly at this distance, were considered to have normal hearing, and were subjected to the succeeding procedures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.