Author made histological examination of the auditory organ of guinea-pigs used in the preceding report.
In general, external and middle ears are in normal condition but many changes were observed in the inner ear.
Each cells of the Corti's organ were atrophied and dimmed, nuclei disappeared or were transformed.
These changes were more marked in the upper than in the lower coils of the Corti's organ.
There were little changes in the cochleal nerve and cells of the spiral ganglion. In the vestibular capsule and both acoustic maculae, there were reduction and disappearance of otholiths, otholith membranes and cell's hairs and disturbed arrangement of epithelial cells.
The change in the vestibular nerve and the acoustic macula nerve were rather slight. There were disturbed arrangement and impaired clearness of boundary of epithelial cells of acoustic cristae of semicircular canals, but little change in nervous fibers.
The changes in cochlea were more marked in the vibration experiment groups than in the control groups while the changes in the auditory organ were of the same degree in both series, which indicates that they were caused by the noise of the vibrator.
There were slight changes in the 100 hours vibration group and marked changes in the 160 hours group in the vestibule and semicircular canals, whereas there were no changes in corresponding groups of the control.
Influences upon the auditory organ by the vibration were thus localized in the vestibule and semicircular canals, foci being found mainly in acoustic maculae.
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