The Effects of High Explosives on the Ear

Abstract

THis title is to be preferred to "deafness due to shiell shock" for several reasons. The word "slhock" lhas a varied significance. To the neurologist it conveys miiany ideas; tllus von Monako* distinguishes several varieties of shock-surgical slhock, psycllical slhock, apoplectic slhocl, commotio cerebri, diasellisis. Eveni in its best recognized form, surgical shock, tlle pliysiological meelanismii wh-llich has been interfered with to prodtice the symlptormis is unknown. The title clhosen will, I lhope, do away with