Excerpt from The Throat and the Voice HE throat is the common highway, so to speak, for the passage of air to the lungs and Of food to the stomach. It is protected and enclosed by various muscular and bony structures, chiefly occupying the neck, along which, too, course the great blood-vessels that nourish the head and the brain, as well as the great nerve-trunks that pass from the brain to the lungs, heart, stomach and intestines, and other organs; while the strong bones at the back of the neck en close the most important, or most vital, part of the spinal cord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.