The Hygiene of the Voice, with Twenty Seven Illustrations (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: these again leave the brain cavity and again descend into the nasal passages. It is seen that the nasal passages and these cells and sinuses are fastened, as it were, to the meninges of the brain by these blood vessels. This is one of the reasons why a mere cold in the head will affect one mentally, making one's mind cloudy. Pruritic Rhinitis (Hay Fever.) Many persons are slightly afflicted with this disease, that is, they suffer from a slight itching of the nasal passages, followed by a few sneezes; the sneezing soon causes a full or stuffed sensation of the passages. The sooner this complaint is treated the better for the voice. THE PHARYNGO-NASAL CAVITY. Dropping in the Throat. If one is conscious of the least dropping or flow of mucus from the posterior portion of the nasal cavities into the throat, it indicates the existence of a chronic inflammation of these parts, of sufficient gravity to require the aid of a physician, as nothing the sufferer can do for himself is likely to result in anything but positive injury, causing him to be more susceptible to colds. Inflammation that Affects Phonation and Vocalization. If a singer or speaker is in the habit of forcibly and suddenly drawing in his breath through his nostrils, with his lips closed, making a sound in the back part of his throat while doing so, thus drawing the post-nasal and pharyngo-nasal secretion down into his throat; or if he, with mouth closed, sends a gust of air from his lungs up behind the soft palate out through the nasal passages, thus throwing the excess of secretion, that is lodged behind the soft palate, up higher into the posterior nares, these acts plainly prove the existence of chronic naso-mucositic inflammation that will be certain to weaken the voice if allowed to remain, and not ...