Genre:

Extract, Anecdote, Drollery

Publications extracted:

New Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Sound, Anatomy, Nomenclature

    'Dr. Johnson, when a lady who travelled with him in a carriage, remarked that she could not hear him in consequence of the noise, is said to have answered, "Madam, the stripetuosity of circumrotary motion renders the modulations of ordinary discourse inaudible; and the cartilaginous materials which compose our auricular members become stultified to the exercise of their natural functions!"'.