Word: larynxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago Adolf Hitler asked the world's greatest otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna, to examine his larynx. Dr. von Neumann had as patients and friends England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alfonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. But he is an orthodox Jew and he turned Hitler down. Last spring, when Hitler entered Austria, Dr. von Neumann was imprisoned and released upon the plea of the Duke of Windsor...
When he diagnosed Hitler's ailment as a "simple polyp" (small benign growth, round and stemmed like a pea), on his larynx, Hitler refused at first to believe him. The Chancellor had been convinced that he had cancer. Removal of the polyp from the larynx, a simple throat-cutting operation that many a physician (and layman) would be glad to have the chance to do for Herr Hitler, was very easy...
Enterprising reporters from Baltimore, Washington and New York soon discovered that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
Behind the Adam's apple, in man's windpipe, lies the larynx, a triangular box containing the vocal cords. Normally the larynx is open, but when it is contracted, air rushing up from the lungs during speech cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal...
...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 adhering to the hyoid bone are not scraped off, since they provide...