Insights into Presbycusis From the First Temporal Bone Laboratory Within the United States.

The Johns Hopkins Otologic Research Laboratory was founded in 1924 as the first human temporal bone laboratory within the United States. To better understand the contributions of the Johns Hopkins Otologic Research Laboratory to our understanding of presbycusis, we consulted with a medical librarian and archivist to search the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, PubMed, JSTOR, and Johns Hopkins Bulletin for published and unpublished works from the lab. Between 1924 and 1938, Samuel J.