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Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe (2021)
Journal Article
Verwaal, R. E. (2021). Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe. Medical History, 65(4), 366-383. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.29

This article discusses hearing disability in early modern Europe, focusing on medical ideas to demonstrate a profound shift in thinking about deafness over the course of the eighteenth century. Scholars have previously described changes in the social... Read More about Fluid Deafness: Earwax and Hardness of Hearing in Early Modern Europe.