There is little to be found in the literature on gunshot wounds of the larynx. The data available deal as a rule with reports of a stab or cut in the neck, the clinical picture of which differs largely from that of gunshot wounds of the larynx. Perichondritis and chondritis of the laryngeal cartilages caused by a gunshot wound display certain peculiarities and demand therapeutic measures different from those for perichondritis of other origin. It may be mentioned in passing that in the great majority of cases wounds of the upper respiratory passages and of the organ of hearing are combined with lesions of adjacent regions. My observations in various cases, in which the injury lasted five days to six months, offer a fairly complete clinical picture from the initial injury to the concluding stage. It is not intended to present here a classification of typical forms of laryngeal lesions