HEARING RESTORED
EFFECT OF ACCIDENT ADELAIDE, July 25. Mrs. Emily Bell, of Davenport terrace, Wayville, after being completely deaf for two months, recovered her hearing on Saturday when a motor truck in which she was travelling with her husband, collided with a car. Both vehicles were damaged, but the occupants escaped serious injury. When the accident occurred, Mrs. Bell was sitting next to her husband, and did not notice any difference in her hearing until they reached the city watchhouse to report the accident. Her husband went into the office and she waited outside for some time. She asked a constable how long Mr. Bell would be, and he said he would go and see. "I can hear you," exclaimed the woman, and when the constable asked what she meant, Mrs. Bell explained that she had been stone deaf for two months. Mr. Bell, who told the story, said his wife had since gone to bed suffering from shock. The doctor who had been treating Mrs. Bell had said that a second shock might restore her hearing- .. , It was stated to-day by a medical man that, where an accident set up functional disorders which resulted in paralysis, blindness, or deafness, a second shock would sometimes restore the lost powers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19398, 9 August 1937, Page 5
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