The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat : with an appendix on rhinoscopy / by Morell Mackenzie.
- Mackenzie, Sir Morell, 1837-1892.
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat : with an appendix on rhinoscopy / by Morell Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![previously, M. Levrefc, a distinguished French. Chap. I. accoucheur, whose highly inventive genius had led him to contrive surgical instruments of almost every description, occupied himself in discovering means, whereby polypoid growths in the nostrils, throat, ears, and other parts, could be tied by ligatures.* It is unnecessary to describe here, the various ingenious instruments which he invented for the purpose, and it is only requisite to observe that in using them he employed a speculum which differed from the various specula * “Mercure de France,” 1743, p. 2434. The extract from the “ Mercure de France,” which relates to the employment of the speculum, forms the first article of the appendix to M. Le- vret’s well-known work “ If Art des Accouchemens ” (second edition, Paris, 1761). In this article the term “Gozier” is used in one place, and “ Gosier ” in another. In the latter, the expression used is — “ mais pour en appliquer l’usage [of the instrument for carrying the ligature] aux Polypes du Gosier, situes derriere la voile du Palais, il a fallu pratiquer ...” From this, it may seem probable to some, that Levret, in using the term “ Gosier,” meant the posterior nares. Such an em- ployment of the word would, however, be quite exceptional, and it is much more likely, that he referred to the “ throat ” generally. In the third edition of Levret’s work (the only one I have had the opportunity of consulting) the particular extract from the “ Mercure de France,” which is quoted above from the second edition, has been omitted. I have to thank Dr. Christie, of Aberdeen, who was the first to call attention to Levret’s claims, for very kindly copying the entire extract and placing it at my service. B 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22375284_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
