Godfrey Edward Arnold

Who was Godfrey Edward Arnold?

Godfrey Edward Arnold, born as Gottfried Eduard Arnold was an Austro-American professor of medicine and a researcher on speech, speech disorder and clinical communicology.

In 1962, Arnold developed the method to inject teflon into the vocal cords und coined the term "phonosurgery" with Hans von Leden the following year.

Arnold was founding director of the Division of Otolaryngology in the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, 1963–79.

He is coauthor of the textbook "Voice - Speech - Language". The work had originally been published in German. Although the text was written several decades ago, the topics covered are quite similar to those in a contemporary voice textbook, which shows how advanced the study of phoniatry was compared to other subdivisions of Speech Language Pathology at the time. For example, topics covered in this text include: speech acoustics, observational methods, treatment of laryngeal electromyography, physiology of respiration and voice production, genetic factors in voice, development of voice throughout the lifespan, professional voice, voice therapy; pathology of the larynx, nodules, asymetries, genetic defects of voice and laryngeal web, sulcus glottides, voice related endocrine problems, the effects of peripheral nerve lesions, the sympathetic nervous system; laryngeal myopathy, central lesions of the nervous system, laryngeal trauma, cordectomy, joint disorders, alaryngeal voice, vasomotor effects on vocal fold function, functional dysphonias, contact ulcers, ventricular voice, and psychogenic voice disorders.