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A Brief History of Audiology · Somewhere in the 4th century BC, Hippocrates wrote about hearing loss and his clinical research into its cause. The famous Greek doctor believed that hearing loss was related to the direction of the wind, change in weather and tinnitus. · Around the 1st century AD, sound was used by the Roman doctor Arhigenes to try and stimulate the auditory system. While in the 4th century AD, Physician Alexander of Tralles tried blowing a trumpet into the ear canal along with the use of herbs to cure hearing loss. · In the year 1898 the first electronic hearing aid was developed by Miller Reese Hutchison. It was called the Akouphone. It wasn’t till the early part of the 20th century that an experimental branch of psychology decided to study auditory perception. · An instrument to measure hearing loss was invented and designed in 1920. It wa...