Excerpt from Archives of Otology, 1887, Vol. 16: Edited in English and German But one doubt I beg to mention. Out Of the auditory hairs alone, even if they are swollen, the mass of the mem. Brana tectoria cannot be formed: it is too large for that. It is therefore necessary to call to our aid a coagulating inter mediate substance. But if we assume the presence of such a substance, it is remarkable that it is present nowhere else in the endolymphatic space, and that at no other place than at the crista acusticae a coagulation of the endolymph occurs. 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.