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Show NO TONGUE, YET TALKS Peculiar Capacity of Patient Pa-tient Is Puzzling to Doctors. BALTIMORE. Md,. June 2. William Andrews, a sailor, whose tongue and tonsils were recently removed at the city hospital in an operation for cancer, can still talk. Even a portion of the larynx was clipped oft. . A small hole was left in the throat just above the larynx ' so that the patient could breathe. While a physician was renewing the dressing the patient surprised him by speaking distinctly. He continues to talk whenever the dressing: is removed, but the doctors say he will die within a year, owing to the spread of the cancerous cancer-ous affection. |