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Credit: Outlines of human pathology / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![■614 The Larynx, •chordae vocales, often exposing and rendering carious the thyreoid cartilage. The voice at first rough, then a harsh whisper, cough with purulent expectoration tinged with blood, local pain, and tenderness on pressure, mark the disease. The affected surface may be reached from the fauces, and the suffocative spasm may be relieved by bron- chotomy. [m. 48. 49. 50. 51.] 4. Polypi. Mr. Charles Mayo, of Winchester, favoured me with a preparation from the body of an elderly lady, in which a firm whitish elastic polypus grew by a pedicle from the root of the epiglottis. It had produced occasional suf- focative seizures, in one of which the patient died. [ii. 54.] Such tumours are not extremely unfrequent. They would j)robably admit, when of any size, of being identified and re- moved during life. Andral describes in the larynx of a phthisical patient a wart on one of the lips of the glottis, formed of several small pedunculated white nodules of the same nature probably as the above. SECTION VI. Thyreoid and Thymus Glands. The basis of the diseases of the thyreoid gland is hyper- trophy, with which a great variety of morbid alterations may be combined. The enlargement is called a bronchocele. It principally attacks young persons ; girls much more fre- quently than boys. In simple hypertrophy the natural structure of the gland becomes coarser and firmer, its size increasing to an enor- mous extent. The gland often enlarges unequally ; some- times one lateral lobe exceeds the other; sometimes this is so in appearance only, an enlarged lymphatic gland being attached to one lobe: sometimes the isthmus of the gland is principally enlarged, and attains the size of an egg^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21066735_0550.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
