A manual of diseases of the throat and nose / by Francke Huntington Bosworth.

Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of diseases of the throat and nose / by Francke Huntington Bosworth. 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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    PREFACE. I have embodied in the following pages the results of an experience, in dealing with throat affections, extending now over nearly ten years, and which has embraced the observation, treatment, and, in the large proportion of instances, the ob- served results of treatment, of something over eight thousand recorded cases. These have been partially in private practice, but mainly at the Bellevue Clinic for Diseases of the Throat. In making these results public, I have endeavored to confine myself to my own personal exj^erience, recording, with candor and fidelity, both the method and measure of my success in those affections in which success has followed treatment, and, at the same time, and with the same candor, acknowledging the difficulties and disappointments which have attended the management of those diseases in the treatment of which I have failed of full success. In describing special methods of treatment, I have endeav- ored to enter into full detail, preferring to err in this direction, rather than to fail of making myself clearly understood. The methods recommended are all such as I have made use of, and with the result given ; the methods recommended by others, I have, as a rule, passed over, except when I have found them of value. In the classification of diseases, I have followed that plan which is based on the general laws which govern the manifes- tation and development of morbid processes in all mucous
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