Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride.

  • Jacob Gottstein
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[1883]
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Credit: Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WOUNDS AND INJURIES OF THE LARYNX. Wounds are usually produced by the knife, the result of atteiL suicide; punctured woundsy inflicted by the bayonet. lagger, i other sharp instrument, are less common. Incised wounds usually extend across the larynx, and vary in their effects according to locality and extent They usually rough the thyro-hyoid membrane or thyroid cartilage, and, next to this, their most comrao: -he crico- thyroid ligament or cricoid cartilage. If the cartilage be completely -he worn. _ the upper and lower fragments are drawn from each other by muscles which act in opposite directions. There is rarely much bleeding ; if blood gets into the air | _ . it is removed by coughing, although a clot formed in the trachea or bronchi may lead to death from suffocation, especially in wounds with small external orifices such as stabs. D I of suffocation may when the epiglottis or the arytenoids are cut through by 1 _:nent falling into the larynx. Symptoms of -ten may be produced later by swelling due - _ into the ma), oedema, suppuration, exfoliation of i. _ aid the formation of granulation tissue which may grow into the larynx Punctured wounds, if the opening in the skin do m I ipond with that in the larynx, may cause extensive cutan rable luce _ ilar fractures of the cartn _ od even * _ tway of large portions of the larynx. The passag f bullets tin larynx without producing ably extremely rai of the larynx there is complete aphonia. 1 Usual] ads of the larynx run itively favourable f they be not 1 th may result from wound (septic infection, wides] _ and perichondritis _h retention _ | necrosed and l<^*e pii of the •