The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie.

Date:
1797
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ ”5 ] fore being rendered incapable of these finer motions which it is reasonable to imagine must have considerable influence upon the voice. In the cases which I have had an opportunity of examining, the ligaments which join the cartilages together were natural in their structure ; had they b?en changed into bone, all the motions of the larynx would have been lost. It would then have been useless as the chief in- strument of voice; but what woukl be the exact effect of such a change upon sound generally, it is extremely difficult to deter- mine. In some instances where the carti- lages of the larynx have been converted into bone, there has occurred a total inabi- lity of swallowing, which destroyed the pa- tients. Upon examination after death, no disease was observable either in the pha- rynx or the oesophagus. How this should happen it is very difficult to explain, but it has been observed by Dr. Robertson, the Physician of Greenwich Hospital.
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