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...necessity for laryngectomy, and with the retention of a more or less normal voice. This observation holds only for the extremely early laryngeal cancers, and should be an incentive for all persons with unexplained hoarseness of more than a few weeks' duration to be examined by a laryngologist without delay...
Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
Last week, Laryngologist Edward Anderson Looper of the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that an operation he devised in 1937 had succeeded in restoring their voices to five of his patients. Purpose of the operation is to keep the airway open by using the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone at the root of the tongue as a wedge in the larynx. His technique consists of cutting loose the upper left end of the bone, swinging it down into the desired position in the larynx, and planting it in the thyroid cartilage, firmest section of laryngeal framework. The soft tissues...
Died. Dr. Emil Mayer, 77, famed retired laryngologist, Wartime representative of the Medical Intelligence Bureau of the U. S. Red Cross; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Apothecary, a Laryngologist, a Physician...