Laryngoscopal medication, or, the local treatment of the diseases of the throat, larynx, and neighboring organs, under sight / by Louis Elsberg, A.M.

  • Elsberg, Louis.
Date:
1864
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    The laryngeal electropole (Fig. 7), to carry tlie galvanic current, is a modijBication of Middeldorpf's Improved Gal- vano-Caiiterizateur. While the button in the handle is pressed upon the current passes, otherwise the extremity is a simple piece of wire ; yet when the double wire is in the handle (as figured in the cut), the extremity can be immediately rendered hot enough for effective actual cautery. The double wire may be taken out by unscrewing the little pins in the handle, and either a single wire introduced, connected with the negative pole of the battery, while the positive pole is held outside of the throat, over the larynx, or the two separate wires, one connected, with the negative and one with the posi- tive pole of the battery, may be placed into the handle and secured by the screws, and approximated or held apart at plea- sure, so that both vocal cords, or any other two portions within the larynx or neighboring organs, may be brought into contact with either both poles at the same time or each separately. [The description of other instruments for laryngoscopal sur- gery^ viz. besides my own, the knives, scissors, and forceps of Yon Bruns, Lewin, and Lindwurm, the laryngeal ecraseur of for the present to the remark that moThid growths have already heen removed from even helow the vocal cords without the Uoody laying ojpen of the laryngeal cavity from without^ per vias NATUKALES, hy cutting instruments^ hy means of laryngoscojpy .^] Section 10.—Remedies .Employed. Many physicians, on hearing the topical medication of the larynx spoken of, can think of naught but the applica- tion of nitrate of silver, !Now, while it is true that on com- mencing to treat laryngeal diseases locally, most practitioners have been given to the exclusive use of this agent, and also, that those having had the amplest experience still regard it as exceed- ingly valuabfe when properly understood and restricted—it is a Fig. 7.