Clinical notes on diseases of the larynx : investigated and treated with the assistance of the laryngoscope / by William Marcet.

  • Marcet W. (William), 1828-1900.
Date:
1869
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    in nervous aphonia, and has thus, in a physiological as well as a pathological point of view, obtained a most important and interesting result. Dr. George Johnson, the author of a small but highly practical manual on the use of the Laryngoscope, has been very successful with the removal of a number of morbid growths from the larynx, performed with the assistance of the Laryngoscope. His cases are reported in the ' Medico-Chirurgical Transactions for 1868,' and reflect much credit on the operator. ^ It is not my intention to allude to the history of the discovery of the Laryngoscope, which will be found fully described by other authors; but I think it right to recall the exertions and skill of Professor Czermak, to whom we are so greatly indebted for his having per- fected the art of Laryngoscopy so as to make the Laryngoscope of easy and efficient application. 48 Haeley Steeet, Cavendish Squaee.