BIG EARS PREDICTED
The noise and clamour of modern city life are producing a race of elephant eared men and women, says Dr. Fritz Pfuffer, a Vienna ear specialist. He predicts that in the not too distant future human beings will have auditory extremities :t.he size of a dachshund’s. Women, says Dr. Pfuffer. will be hardest hit. The grandchildren cf women who now wear their hair over their ears will be so unsightly that they must be covered up. Dr. Pfuffer bases his prediction
■on measurements of patients' ears during the last 110 years. The continual strain on the auditory nerve when a person is listening to a conversation amid the din of city traffic is responsible for the change, he says.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 8
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