A report on the operations for fissures of the palatine vault / By Thomas D. Mütter.

  • Thomas Dent Mutter
Date:
1843
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Credit: A report on the operations for fissures of the palatine vault / By Thomas D. Mütter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTE I have performed, in all, twenty-one operations upon the soft and hard palate, and out of this number have failed to relieve the patient but in two cases. In one, the ligatures were removed on the second day, by the coughing and restiveness of the individual; and the operation has not been repeated, although the case is as susceptible of remedy as before. In the other, the voice, although improved, is still indistinct, and the relief is not as apparent as in the other cases. I have met with no dangerous symptoms in any case. In a resume of M. Roux’s cases, to be found in the Gazette Medecale, for August, 1842, it is stated that in “ simple fissure of the velum he cured two out of three. When complicated with fissure in the hard palate, the proportion of successful cases was but one in three” / Dr. Warren, of Boston, has relieved thirteen out of fourteen cases. September 8th, 1843