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Word: larynxless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr. Levin has taught 30 men belch-talk. His method is simple, takes some patients only one or two days to learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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