The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat : with an appendix on rhinoscopy / by Morell Mackenzie.
- Morell Mackenzie
- Date:
- 1865
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Credit: The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat : with an appendix on rhinoscopy / by Morell Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In the year 1748, and probably some years previously, M. Levret, a distinguished French accoucheur, whose highly inventive genius had led him to contrive surgical instruments of almost every description, occupied himself in discovering means, whereby polypoid growths in the nostrils, throat, ears, and other parts, could be tied by ligatures.* It is unnecessary to describe here, the various ingenious instruments which he in- vented for the purpose, and it is only requisite to observe that in using them he employed a speculum which differed from the various specula * Mcrcurc de Franco, 1743, p. 2434. The extract from the Mercnre de France, which relates to the employment of the spec- ulum, forms the first article of the appendix to M. Levret's well- known work L'Art dcs Accouchcmens (second edition, Paris, 17G1). In this article the term Gozier is used in one place, and Gosier in another. In the latter, the expression used is, mais pour en appliquer l'usage [of the instrument for carrying the liga- ture] aux Polypes du Gosier, situts derriere la voile du Palais, il a fallu pratiquer . . . From this, it may seem probable to some, that Levret, in using the term Gosier, meant the posterior cares. Such an employment of the word would, however, be quite excep- tional, and it is much more likely, that he referred to the throat generally. In the third edition of Levret'a work (the- only one I have had the opportunity of consulting) the particular extract from the Mercure do France, which is quoted above from the second edition, has been omitted. I have to thank Dr. Christie, of Aber- deen, who was the first to call attention to Levret's claims, for very kindly copying the entire extract and placing it at my service.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2113828x_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
