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TUESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1963
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Substance Found
For Injection
Into Vocal Cords
By DELOS SMITH
' UPI Science Editor
New YorMJPU-Dr. Godfrey
E. Arnold, a leader of scicn.
liflc clforts to restore good
working voices to poor-voiced
and voiceless human beings,
believes the ideal substance
for injection into vocal cords
has been found. It is, of all
things, one of the tetrafluoro
ethylene plastics well known
by the trade-name, "Teflon,
and widely used for many pur
poses. In this naw and highly
humane use, it is mixed with
glycerin which makes it a
paste that can be easily in
jected in relatively simple
surgery.
Many speech disorders orig
inate in the failure of the
vocal cords to come together
in that area of the larynx
called the glottis, '.his failure
can be due to a number of
things but usually there is
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paralysis in one of the con
trolling nerves.
If the cords won't readily
close and part as they vibrate,
if becomes extremely difficult
and even impossible to form
and project intelligible sounds.
The voice is squeaky and
weak and the victim for prac
tical purposes is often voice
less. When you inject something
into a cord with a paralyzed
nerve you broaden and thick
en it. This sometimes permits
it to close against its mate
and this will restore speech.
What to inject has been the
scientific problem.
Chemically Tolerable
It must stay where it is
put for the life of the person,
and so it must be chemically
tolerable to body tissues and
at the same time it should
prevent body tissues absorb
ing it. And it has to be of
fine composition so it can be
injected.
Various substances have
been tried and found wanting
for one reason or another.
Arnold reported to a techni
cal organ of the American
Medical Association that "Tef
lon powder mixed with gly
cerin seems to be what he
and his colleagues have been
looking for.
He is clinical director of
the Nntionul Hospital for
Speech Disorders and head of
the department of research
at New York Eye and Ear
infirmary. He reported hew
it has been tried out exhaus
tively in animals and then in
a large number of patients
with uniform success.
"There may be hoarseness
during the first postoperative
day," he said. "Thereafter the
voice improves rapidly, soon
showing the beneficial effects
of the operation. The patient
begins to talk with a better
voice. It is louder, fuller,
clearer and more pleasant."
Not Whole Answer
Injection is by no means
the whole answer to voice
disorders, he emphasized. Be
fore the technique is even
considered there should be
positive proof that the voice
disorder Is due to deficient
closing of the vocal cords.
Even then it should nut
be used before all possible
attempts at vocal rehabilita
tion by voice therapy have
been made. As Is well known.
he continued, many persons
can overcome vocal disorders
by learning how to compen
sate with the larynx and to
exploit the ability to hear
one's voice and then correct
its deficiencies.
"Injection should not be
considered before six months
have elapsed since the onset
of laryngeal paralysis," he
said. "Spontaneous recovery is
possible within this .line.
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Significant Milestones During 19S2
Noted by Air Force Space Division
Los Angeles - (UPD - The
Air Force Space Systems Di
vision noted today it achieved
"many significant milestones"
during 1962 in launching over
90 per cent of the nation's
space probes and satellites.
The division, commanded
by Maj. Gen. Beni. Funk, re
ported that by working with
the nation's leading aerospace
industries it had made a nota
ble contribution to the United
States space program.
SSD has primary responsi
bility for the development
and launching of space boost
ers, integrating payload with
the boosters and tracking of
payloads into orbit.
It listed the most significant
space achievements during
1962 as:
Feb. 20: The first Ameri
can was launched into orbit
atop an Air Force Atlas space
booster from Cape Canaveral,
Fla. The astronaut, Marine Lt.
Col. John Glenn, was recov
ered after landing safely in
the Atlantic Ocean in his
Mercury capsule. He orbited
the earth three times.
Feb. 27: The Air Force
launched its Discoverer 38 in
to polar orbit from Vanden
bcrg AFB, Calif. The space
capsule was caught in the
air by a C130 aircraft on
March 3 after it had passed
around the earth 65 times.
This set a new orbit record
for a capsule.
April 23: The Ranger 4
spacecraft was sent on a col
lision course for the moon,
impacting on the far side of
the lunar body April 26. This
was the first time a U. S.
spacecraft had reached the
moon.
May 24: Astronaut Scott
Carpenter followed Glenn into
orbit in a repeat performance
of the historic flight. Carpen
ter's Mercury capsule was
boosted into orbit by an Air
Force Atlas. The launch,
three orbits, and recovery
were successfully accomplish
ed. Aug. 15: Under Secretary
of the Air Force Dr. Joseph
V. Charyk announced the suc
cessful flight of Agena D. The
new Agena D Is an Air Force
program to develop a stand
ard upper stage space vehicle.
It can be launched atop an
Atlas or Thor standard launch
vehicle.
Aug. 26: An Air Force At-las-Agena
B launched a Mari
ner 2 "Venus Fly By" space
craft for the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion. Mariner 2 successfully
passed within 21,000 miles of
Venus where special instru
ments radioed back to earth
vital information about the
mysterious cloud - covered
planet.
Oct. 3: Astronaut Walter
Schirra became the third
American to go into orbit as
he rode his Sigma 7 Mercury
space capsule for six orbits
around the earth. Launched
atop an Air Force Atlas, he
was successfully recovered
from the Pacific Ocean.
Oct. 31: A friendly "Wink
ing Star" satellite called Anna
was launched by an Air Force
Thor-Ablestar space booster
from Cape Canaveral. The
Thore Ablestar placed Anna
into one of the most precise
orbits ever attained by a sat
ellite. The mission of the
335 pound sphereical Anna
was to provide data and meas
urements on the shape of the
earth more accurately than
ever before.
Oct. 31: The Air Force re
ported it would develop an
Atlas standardized space
launch vehicle (SLV3). Devel
opment of a standard Atlas is
in keeping with the current
Air Force program to stand
ardize all space launch vehi
cles. Standardizing of the At
las will eliminate many pro
duction and launching prob
lems resulting in lower long
term costs.
Nov. 13: The Air Force an
nounced it had launched the
world's smallest satellite,
known at a Tetrahedral Radi
ation Satellite The pyramid
shaped satellite, weighing
only 1.5 pounds, was small
enough to hold in the hand.
Its mission to send back
data on the 3,700 mile Van
Allen radiation belt.
Nov. 14: Mariner 2 set a
new long distance communi-1
cation record when useable
scientific information was re- i
ceived from the spacecraft at
a distance of over 17 million
miles.
Nov. 29: Ground was offi-1
cially broken at Edwards ,
AFB, Calif., for a new rocket i
engine test facility described
by Air Force as "the most
sophisticated and highly in-1
strumented test facility in the !
world." The facility will in-'
elude the largest thrust stand
for solid motors built to date.
Dec. 18: An Air Force Blue j
Scout boosted a Navy Tran- j
sit 5A satellite into orbit from
Point Arguello, Calif. This
was the first, time a Transit
payload was launched by a
Blue Scout.
Also in December. A suc
cessful launch of a Thor from
Vandenberg AFB, marking
the 100th launch of a U. S.
space vehicle by the versa
tile Air Force Thor space
booster. In 93 of the 100
launches, the Thor first stage
performed successfully.
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