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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    wliicb in its perfection is one of the grand distinguishing cha- racteristics of humanity ! And thus, not only is our most objective and reliable sense—that of sight—brought to bear upon the examination of the organ in its physiological action, and its pathological condition, but direct, i.e. Topical Thera- peutics has achieved a conquest by which the boundaries of its domain are unquestionably enlarged. It is in this respect that the direct benefits derived from the laryngoscope in disease leave far behind those of the stetho- scope, microscope, and ophthalmoscope : Looking at naught but our practical duty of knowing and treating disease, wdiile with the stethoscope we may hear, while with the ophthalmoscope we may see, what there is^ with the laryngoscope we not only see what there is but Oan sp:e ;5Vhat we do, and botli in dia- gnosis and treatment its non-employment or employment im- plies all the difi'erence that exists between the condition of him who endeavors to grope his way in the gloom of the darkest night and that of him who walks securely under the midday light of the effulgent sun.
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