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Did Doctors Prescribe Deaf Flights?
In the 19 twenties, doctors prescribed intentionally terrifying flights in aeroplanes to cure deafness. A doctor called charles macaneny said it was a psychological problem and that the solution would be going into a plane with lophe loops and nose dives and spins. The idea was that people might have suffered from these things for psychological reasons. So deaf flights were a thing that was quite commonly prescribed. And charles linberg, very famous ovate aviator, on his business cart, he had deaf flights as one of the things that take tea fe for tat ay ideai. There were some people who were deaf since birth. For example, there was a boxer called fred m
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