Arizona republican., 1921-06-26
By Frederic J. ti.sk;n

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 WASHINGTON. June 24.-That the young soldier who recently reeained his power of speech as the result of flight in an airplane. was cured solely by the conviction that he would De cured is the assertion of surgeons of the public health service who are acquainted with the case.
 This patient found himself wholly unable to speak after an automobile accident in which he was not other wise injured The doctors prescribed as cure a flight in an airplane to a great elevation. and the man came down able to speak once more.
 But. contrary to the popular belief. this trip to the clouds. with its ac- companying thrills for one unnccus- toned to sky travel, was not In itself responsible for relieving tho unre- ' sponsise throat of the young man
 One immediately thinks that the higher attitudes accounts for the voice recovery; that the throat trouble. possibly originally due to bronchial congestion. ceased to pre- vent the processes of speech. once the clearer air was breathed The thought is perhaps even more gen. eral that the flight. with its excite ments. it's dips and spins. in reality
 scared the man into speech. News paper and magazine cartoons follow ing in the wake of the first announce ment of voice recovery by flight have been based largely on this belief that the voice suddenly came under con trol when its owner sought desper- ately to articulate the word ~Help,"
 The young man. was not scared into talking. according to the doctors who suggested the flight as a rem edy- The young mans inability to speak was not due to ordinary throat troubles. but was the result of misbelief brought about by a weak ened physical condition and the nervous strain of the automobile ac- cident in which he figured
 The doctors were asked to explain why an air trip had been prescribed. They laughed and said. We could have told him to go down into a coal mine, with as much hopes and pros poets of recovery, but Boiling field air station happened to be handler than a coal mine
 Cured by Conviction
 Convincing young Renz that the trip in the plane would bring back his voice did more than the flight. It was trick. of course, but it helped him and therefore was justifiable"
 Renz had been treated by a num- Der of doctors at considerable ex- pense, but without success. He was becoming melancholy with the thought that he might never again use his voice This negative thought firmly gripped him, and to break the spell into which he had been thrown it was necessary, the physicians ex- plain, to suggest a treatment whose freakishness would appeal to him as having in 1t possible recovery.
 Rsnz had never been in a plane The anticipated experience promised novelty. The doctors were careful 10 keep constantly before him the thought than when he came down he would be talking again. If they had chosen some other new experience for him, making certain that he was sim ilarly thoroughly convinced of its curing power the doctors believe he would have attained equal success.
 Renz made the trip. and while at reasonably high altitude regained his faculty of speech. The doctors were as happy as Renz, but perhaps not quite so surprised.
 A few weeks later Renz appeared before them again. his voice once more missing. A second trip was proposed and Renz was told that this was the first time such recurrence of voice impairment had occurred fol- lowing an air trip. Again he was convinced that the flight would be successful. and again he recovered his voice.
 The doctors explained that Renz had merely suffered a relapse in his positive belief rather than in actual voice impairment. Someone had un- doubtedly told him that the recovery would not be permanent. and Renz had believed. Thus far the young man has continued to believe that his voice has permanently returned and he has not found 1t necessary to seek either additional or different treat ment.
 The recovery of lost faculty re- calls similar cases, many of which have been utilized as the bases of short stories and moving picture plots. Many picture goers were dis gusted at the climax of a picture which enjoyed much popularity few months ago iHumoresQue) because