THE HOME AMBULANCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17571, 15 May 1919, Page 7

THE HOME AMBULANCE.

KEEP ZAM-BUK ALWAYS HANDY.

The mother who keeps a pot of ZamBuk handy in the house is provided with a perfect home ambulance for giving first-aid, when the youngsters or any member of the family hurt themselves.

Mrs. Daley, writing from 384 Quay St. Rockhampton, Q., says :—• "My little son Douglas, feH upon a broken bottle and made n terrible gash on his knee. Really,- the wound should have been stitched, as it was ow»m to such an extent that the bone was visible. However, thinking I could heal it up, J bathed it well with hot >vater and applied Zsim-Buk. 1 continued this treatment for about a week, after which time .tho wound had thoroughly healed. "The next injury of which Douglas yas a victim was sustained whilst playing with another little boy. His companion threw a tin, which hit him on the right temple and caused a nasty big cut. Remembering Zam-Buk, 1 again treated the injury with it, and in a very short time the wound was completely better.

" Another time I was busy chopping some wood when the axe slipped off the side of the block and hit Douglns on the leg, opening it up with a great cash to the bone. I was glad when or examination J found that I had rfeither fractured the bone nor severed, an artery. I again applied Zam-Buk to the wound, and bound up the leg fghtly. I continued the Zam-Buk., treatment, and t within a fortnight the leg was perfectly healed. I have great fa'th in Zam-Buk for general use in tho house."

One trial of Zam-Buk always shows that it is a remedy worth keeping handy. Zam-Buk pays for self-room n the home, and is worth carrying in the pocket when at work. It is so compact, and always ready when wanted. There is nothing better than Zam-Buk for cuts, bruises, burns, scabs, sprains, rashes, pimples,; eczema, ringworm, poison sore's, ulcers, piles, insect bites, chafings, etc. All druggists nnd storekeepers sell Zam-Buk at Is 6d or 3s 6d a pot.

fined to the ear that pertains to the shorter segment.

If the patient really has a bad ear, each ear Will have been tested separately; it will be found, say, that be hears in his good ear up to 20ft., and in his bad ear up to 3ft. With both i tubes in use at the same tim«, he will hear the sound in his good exr v.nenever the length of the tube leading to it isf less than 20ft., while i that of the tube leading to the bad ear is greater than 3ft. The minute we get his bad ear within 3ft. of, the sound while the good ear is 20ft oi more away, he will hear in the bad ear. And proceeding from this point lo move the sound nearer to both ears at once, if it is 6in. from the tad ear and ISft. from the good one. -.he intensity of audition will be greater in the bad ear. The patient will then hear in the bad ear, and the good one will register no sound —alchiugh if the bad ear were closed he would hear in the good one. GIVES HIMSELF AWAY. Suppose now that a malingerer has claimed deafness in his left ear. , If tie claims partial deafness he will be tripped up in short order by sounds whose intensities and dis'aniMs are not known to him; so reali^Rg this, he claims total deafness in the ear in qiustion. He must thea so into the test with the determination to | aay 'no' whenever he hears a sound in ' his left ear; otherwise he will pre- j sently admit hearing something which he should not hear. Very well. In t!'.e case outlined in the preceding paragraph he hears the sound in his bad ear, and denies hearing it at all. Then he is caught; for if his left ear were deaf he would hear it in his right, and if his left ear were not deaf he would hear it in his left.

Of course, • the distances in the above suppositious case will be greatly modified according to the facts of each case. But in every case there will be a region r.'iere the malingerer hears the sound in his bad ear, so that he must deny hearing It at all, yet in which he could hear it with one ear or the ot 1 er if his claim were true. Thus, suppose he really hears at 30ft. in his left ear and at 20ft. in his right, and he claimed deafness in his right ear. When the tubes are sp adjusted that the course o* SQund is 10ft. frlun his left ear and 6ft. from his right, he will deny hearing at all.

In evevy case the range of the good ear can be determined in advance by separate tests of two ears; and in every case the patient, by his negative % answer, unconsciously gives exact information, as to just what degree of hearing he has in his alleged bad.ear. For as the sound-source retreats from the .good ear and appToaches the bad one, he marks the point at which he begins to hear it in his bad ear by changing his claim from " hear" to "do not hear." There seems no escape for the unfortunate victim of Dr. Callahan's ingenious device—^except that of telling the truth about his hearing to begin with. *