Considerable amusement was caused on Tuesday night at the educational campaign of the League for the Hard of Hearing in Wellington, when Dr. AV. J. Hope-Robertson explained that small boys and possibly some adults would be pleased to know that excessive waxing of the ears, which ofteu required tlie use of a syringe for the removal of the wax, did not arise as a result of insufficient washing. He explained that cerumen, or wax, as it was commonly called, really consisted of two parts, one an oily part and the other a waxy part, and in certain people not enough oil was produced, or if produced it was very rapidly absorbed, with the result that the waxy part was not sufficiently soft to run out normally, and thus over a period an excessive accumulation occurred.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 6, 2 October 1941, Page 8
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