Clinical notes on diseases of the larynx : investigated and treated with the assistance of the laryngoscope / by William Marcet.

  • William Marcet
Date:
1869
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    CLINICAL NOTES ON DISEASES OF THE LAEYNX. PEELIMINARY EBMAEKS. One of the main objects of the present Essay is to show the importance of the Laryngoscope and its use, not only as a means of diagnosing laryngeal affections and allowing of the application of local treatment to the larynx, but also as an instrument calculated to afford such knowledge from the inspection of the throat as will assist materially in the diagnosis and prognosis 9 of pulmonary phthisis. Indeed, a very short acquaint- ance with this instrument will suf&ce to convince a medical practitioner of its great value; thus a cough may result from laryngeal irritation which, without the Laryngoscope, could never have been properly dia- gnosed, and which the application of astringents to the larynx may rapidly cure. Again, a cough due to some disturbance of the nervous system is not unlikely to mislead the practitioner, on account of its apparently laryngeal sound, when an examination with the Laryn- goscope will at once dispel the idea of irritation of larynx, and, in the absence of pulmonary symptoms, suggest the true, cause of the affection. There are circumstances, however, which interfere * B
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