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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    do so, either of themselves or on reassuring the patient, to tran- quillize his mind; making him breathe deeply and regularly, swallow a little ice water, gargle, then inhale a little of an ano- dyne or ansesthetic mixture; and applying cold, rubefacients, or fomentations externally to his throat. Any one who has learned to practise laryngoscopy with ease and success, can master the method of laryngoscojpal medica- tion with the instruments I have described. Its feasibility and utility have been demonstrated in my private practice, as well as in my clinic, at the University of New York, before many physicians and medical students. The one thing needful to make it satisfactory to the operator and patient, is the acquisition of a habit of moving the hand in obedience to the will by indirect vision, i.e. the ability of carrying an instru- ment directly—bddly, delicately, and firmly, without touching neighboring parts—to a point indirectly seen, i.e. seen in a mirror. This habit or this ability, it must be confessed, is diffi- cult to acquire, because it is in opposition to what seems, from long practice,, to be instinctive; but that it can he acquired thoroughly through perseverance (of course only, too, after a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the organs concerned has been obtained) is abundantly proved and i& there not also abundant inducement for willing to acquire this habit and this ability ? Section 13.—Originator and Promoters of Laryngoscojpal Medication. The method itself, by which the eye becomes the guide to the hand in the laryngeal region&, we owe entirely and solely to CzEKMAK. He is as the pioneer, w4io, felling the sturdy timbers and blasting obstructing rocks, clears a path through the wil- derness. Those who worthily co-operated by removing various obstacles still in the way, areTiirck, Stork, Semeleder, Lewiu, Ger- hardt, Tobold, Siilzer, and Gilewski in Germany; Kauchfuss, in Kussia; Moura-Bourouillou, Mandl, and Fournie in France ; and Gibb, Mackenzie, James, and Johnson in England ; while in this country, I have humbly, though I candidly trust also not unworthily, foUow^ed in the same footsteps in attempting to facilitate and improve the method. Though not strictly be-