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Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic surgical content.This color, silent film uses a combination of illustrations, animation, live action, and descriptive intertitle cards to document a case of fenestration surgery on a twenty-six year old woman suffering from otosclerosis, a condition that causes abnormal bone growth in the ear. Otosclerosis is described as being the most important cause of progressive conduction deafness in early and middle adult life. The patient is presented as having...