HEARING WITH THE SPINE.
The extraordinary ease of a deaf mute hearing music through his spine is puzzling Swiss scientists. Eugene Butenneiatcr, of Berne, a young man who was born deaf, recently entered the Kursaal at Berne during a eoncert, and was surprised to find that he could "hear" ami enjoy the musk, not through the ears, but through the spine. "My spine seems to become -i kind of lightning conductor, and I distinctly feel waves of sound passing , Tipivnvdf* to the brain. The sensation
is very pleasant," Butenneister explains. Ho has been tGStCiI with music by doctors and lie can distinguish, the name of the opera and the instruments played. He cannot "hear," however, if people stand, between him and the on-hestia. Butenneister c:\ri\ot hear the human voice or a loud noise in his vicinity, and "speaks" by means of a finger alphabet.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 10 (Supplement)
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