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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jul., 1937), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/16523 .
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THE STORY OF WHALING. PROFESSOR JOHAN HJORT .................................. 19
CHIMU ARCHEOLOGY. DR. WENDELL C. BENNETT . ................................................... 35
PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS. PROPESSOR PAUL S. EPSTEIN ..................... 49
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The day came when huskiness was noted in Mr. Ehrlich's voice. Hoarseness may be due to one of many causes. Was it a cold, or the result of too much lecturing? MacKenty sent his patient to Chevalier Jackson for a biopsy. The diagnosis was cancer. MacKenty oper- ated, and Nicholas Ehrlich faced the world speechless. An army of cancerous men--and physicians among them-has submitted to ex- tirpation of the organ of the voice: a pathetic army unable to hail its fellows, handicapped in society, unfit for business. In the ingredients which make up Nicholas Ehrlich, there was something which caused him to confront the problem in a different manner. He began to study: mechanics, physics, physiology, music. THE LARYNX, about which he had never thought before, became the center of his universe. Like a child he began to learn the alphabet of speech, and after infinite effort he spoke again: but unlike a child he spoke without vocal cords. He is the pioneer laryngectomee and the first to speak with the spiro- separatus--for he devised the term and invented the instrument.
Then he began to teach others. He became the inspiration of the Lost Cord League, and is now the soul of the Lost Speech Alliance at the Columbia Medical Center. Instead of a burden, he has proved a beacon to many shipwrecked passengers of life. He who has himself been laryngectomized can not and does not for a moment minimize the loss of the human voice. But he has lightened the tragedy of that loss. With patience, tact, technical skill and a knowledge of human nature, Nicholas Ehrlich is engaged in the task of restoring the voice to the voiceless.
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