Wonders of the Spiral Plate.-if this curious and artistic spiral play, which is seen to wine 2 ½ times around, could be enrolled and made to stand in an upright position, you would make a beautiful microscopic heart, that of a thousand strings, but of 3000 strings, and if it were possible to strike these delicate infinitesimal chords as we can the keyboard of an organ or piano, every conceivable variety of tone that the ear can distinguish would be produced and conveyed to the brain is the product of sound.

Well if you have been following this series on the ear with me, you are probably as happy as I am that the author is no longer talking about arches in the ear.  maybe they ended up finding one of those Freudian drug rehab programs after all!