Word: throat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator T. Coleman du Pont of Delaware was heard on the Senate floor. Illness kept him absent most of last term. Now Senator du Pont's own voice will never be heard again. He was reported convalescent in Manhattan last week after an operation for ulcer of the throat which necessitated removal or derangement of his vocal chords and adjacent portions of his tongue and windpipe. An artificial larynx was installed...
Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont of Delaware, last week invalid at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, has had his vocal cords cut out. But he will be able to speak by means of a mechanical larynx...
Senator du Font's throat was diseased from a "throat ulcer." For this he consulted Dr. John E. Mackenty, senior surgeon at the Manhattan hospital, who is famed for his technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...
Similar operations have been done on about 600 U. S. people now living. They respire through their throat opening. To prevent inhaling of dust and dirt, the hole is screened with gauze which a soft rubber ring holds in place...
...Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although...