An Extraordinary Invention.
A remarkable invention has been brought into use by Professor Anderson Stuart, of the Sydney University, which has enabled a man who by an operation in the throat has been rendered voiceless to speak for hours with perfect ease. The principle of the invention is that a reed is adjusted to a tube occupying a position in the larynx so that a current of breath over it causes it to vibrate and produces a sound which, governed by the articulating organs and the resonance of the mouth and nose, results in a remarkable good voice being produced. The voice is a monotone, slightly metallic in character, but perfectly intelligible, dear, and pleasant to listen to. In the invention (here is an ingenious contrivance by which the accumulation of the natural fluids of the mouth and air passages which would im-
paire the working of the larynx is prevented. One of the features of the invention is that by changing the reed the man who used the apparatus could equip himself with a soprano, a tenor, a contralto, or a base yoioe as he pleasqd. The medical faculty is much interested in this invention, which is said to be the most perfect appliance yet devised forartificaily replacing a larynx that has been removed
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 87, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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215An Extraordinary Invention. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 87, 9 October 1895, Page 2
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