title: Development of the audiometer and audiometry.
abstract: The authors consider the reasons why the induction coil audiometer was not widely adopted in clinical practise. The conclusion is that they offered little relevance to the management of hearing-impaired patients at that time, bearing in mind the state of therapeutics, surgery and contemporary aids to hearing.
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D004739:England; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D014481:United States