Larynx

Before the 31st annual convention of the American Laryngological, Rhinological & Stamatological Society in Atlantic City, a man stood making an address. His voice was loud, distinct, but his lips never opened. Language issued from his head as from that of a ventriloquist's dummy. For this man, one Charles Kendrick, had no larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath his collar. He has learned to talk by bringing the sound up from his stomach. The Society was interested.