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Credit: Intubation of the larynx / by F. E. Waxham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![As an additional precaution a pad of antiseptic gauze (Fig. 41) should be placed over the mouth and nostrils of the operator, and secured by a rub- ber tape passed around the head. The importance of these precautions has been emphasized within the last year by the death of two honored members of the profession within the limits of my personal acquaintance. Dr. Newton, of this city, in performing intubation, was severely bitten by a patient who was suffering' from a severe form of diphtheria. Within three days he was taken with the same disease, which rapidly extended to the i t 1 [CH ] Fig. 41. Author's respirator. larynx, trachea and bronchial tubes. Although he ejected membranous casts of the larynx, trachea and larger bronchial tubes, and received unremitting attention from his professional friends, who made every effort to save a most valuable life, yet death occurred on the fourth day from exhaustion and extension of membrane to the finer bronchi. Dr. G. W. Mason, of Bloomington, 111., a most skillful physician, and an honor to his profession, sacrificed his life to this dread disease at the very beginning of a brilliant and successful career. In an exhausted condition, and with the self-foreetful-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21447615_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
