To the Editor: —A few days ago a patient came into my office to consult me. She gave a history of deafness for the last nine years following discharging ears, the result of "sea bathing." She had an ingenious way of using bone conduction for hearing which she said that she had learned from a countryman peddling canes two years ago. By placing one end of a wooden cane firmly between her teeth and the other end under the lower jaw of the person with whom she wished to speak, she could hear everything spoken even when a low voice was used. I have tried it on a number of my friends after plugging the external auditory canal, and I find that it works the same. I have never seen this method used, nor have I ever read of it, although it seems obvious now that it is called to