PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VOCAL CORDS IN PHONATION AND RESPIRATION

Abstract

The year 1886 saw a splendid and noteworthy meeting of the American Laryngological Society. Many of the papers read were of theoretic rather than practical importance, which for that era was, perhaps, a little unusual. The president, Harrison Allen,¹ of Philadelphia, evidently considered himself duty bound to lend the support of his office to such a deviation and said in his presidential address: ... I hear without sympathy the expression of opinion that a paper is good in the degree that it is practical. Can we not with propriety look forward to the time when every Fellow will be identified with papers based upon results gained by experiments upon the lower animals, or upon morphological data, as well as those secured from the operating chair? We will be raised in our own esteem in the degree that we add a little more science to our art. By no means least