The Washington times., 1916-10-31
Harsh Voice
Often Due to
GrozUth
BY DIR. L. X. HIRsHBERG.


~ r all those who seek relief from
nasal disorders. scarcely more
than one in ten stops to con-
slider that at the bottom Of
the mischief IL more or less difficulty
date for the rhinologist's instruments
10 more concerned over the symptoms
which are a consequence OF the OBJ
struction than over the mere fact that
Not to be able to breathe .uncon-
sciously through the nose 10 hygien-
ically and alphabetically an abomina-
ton. IL you hem and halt when you
breathe. IL your lips are thick. your
set II down as fact that there IL some
sort OF nasal obstruction. Look then
to your nostrils, the partition between
them, the shell bones called turbinates
the nose near the roof Of the mouth,
called the ''posterior nostrils." or the
pharynx. whore the adenoid sponges
grow and large tonsils sometimes
project.
Any or all Of these regions may con-
tain encroachments. dwellings, tumors,
inhammations. growth or other him
ORANGES TO the free entrance and exodus
OF air.
common thing to ind barriers. port
cullis, beaver dams, and other tissue
shoppers and impediments. Disloca-
lions and fractures Of the cartilages and
fancy or blows on the nose later In life.
which bend the septum or partition
more into one nostril than the other.
call for surgical relief.
Nose Growth. Evils.
II is worse than idle folly to accept
, the name ''catarrh" for anything which
has to do with the nose. II Is a crime
to treat nasal distractions with oils,
sprays. saves. ointments. burnings and
drugs. Why disguise the truth from
J yourself and squander money and
knowledge in makeshift delaysH
The turbinate bones are thin. egg
shell-like bones which often become too
large. too thick or too infamed to per-
NIT clear breathing. Polyps and other
| tissue vegetation at the posterioi ex-
tremities of the turbinates are killjoys
to airy. fairy zephyrs.
Adenoids and large tonsils as well as
bony projections from the spine are
common In the pharynx as limitations
| to the air space at this place.
Nine in every ten victims OF nose
troubles will be found to have some
! sort Of obstruction in the nose. Fluids.
mucous. and other watery or thick dis
charges from the nasal chambers may
be only an increase OF the normal flow
which commonly evaporates when air
| enters or leaves. This may be also due
to irritations. inAammatIons. impedi-
ments. bacteria. deformities. enlarge
| ments, tumors, or other barricades In
the nostrils. the cheeks, the forehead
or the other side chambers OF the nose.
Harsh Voice Causes.
| Sneezes. headaches, neuralgias. eye
fatigue. nose bleed. loss of the sense OF
small. dry mouth. tickle in throat
husky voice, muffed tones, frequent at
| tacks of colds-in- the-head. ringing In
the ears. tired feeling. oppressive SEN
| Stations. blue flag. dizziness. inattention'
| lack Of an incentive to work and think,
have all been traced to nasal obstruc'
! lions.
The nasal twang" of some Amerl.
cans who talk through the nose,
and other harsh. raspy infections OF
| speech are not due, as is generally
, believed, actually to talking through
the nose" but really to the inability
I to do so.
| A pleasant. captivating. sweet reso.
nance Of the voice is the result OF a
clear passage of air waves and there
fore OF sounds from the throat up tC
and through open. unobstructed nos
trils.
The large, haring nostrils OF tn,
negro and the rarity of any of tn,
causes of nasal obstruction in tina
race. give him the natural head
tones" apd uniformly resonant stat'
OF his voice.
II is the better part OF both wiA,
dom and valor to cease to be so gull
BILE and unsophisticated as to accep
the word "catarrh" for nose disorder
which call aloud and plainly for tn,
nose surgeons skill
Copyright, 1915. Newspaper Feature Service