Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Clergyman’s Sore Throat. [ARTICLE]

Clergyman’s Sore Throat.

George Steel-Perkins communicates to the Lancet his views on the pharyngitis and laryngitis of public speakers. He states that It is now over thirty years since he first asked himself why We speak of the condition i s clergymen’s sore throat and not as lawyer’s sore throat. Why is this condition so rarely seen in lawyers who use their voices more than clergymen, and in stuffier atmospheres? On , thinking over the matt’er the only difference the writer could perceive between a clergyman’s and a lawyer’s speaking was that a clergyman spoke down to his congregation, and a lawyer spoke up to the judge, the former thus pressing on his larvnx and causing congestion, whereas the lawyer had his larynx and throat In a normal position, or rather In a hypernormal position. From that time he has always advised such patients to speak looking up to their audience and never down. He has used no local applications or treatment except to rectify a condition such as granular pharyngitis, but where necessary he has suggested a rest of voice for two or three, months. In all cases this plan has been successful.