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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    THE LARYNGOSCOPE. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE INVENTION OF THE LARYNGOSCOPE. Honor belongs to the first suggestion of a discovery, if that suggestion was the means of setting some one to work to verify it; but the world must ever look upon this last oper- ation as the crowning exploit.—Bain. TT may seem strange to some that it was not till the middle of the last century that an instrument was invented for examining the lower part of the throat during life, nor till more than a hundred years later that that instrument was sufficiently improved and simplified to be capable of general application. The dentist's mirror seems to have been used from time immemorial,* and polished tubes for passing into the external canals * In the Augustan age, dental surgery had attained a degree of perfection which implies the employment of mirrors for exam- ining the inner surface of the teeth.—Celsus, lib. vii, cap. xii.
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