An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper].
- William Cowper
- Date:
- 1699
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C J99 ] lefs Exceptions, and needlefs Fears, commonly expreft againft this fafe and ufeful Operation. • Laryngotomj is highly to be valued, for that in the greated extremity, when a Man is in mod imminent danger of Suffocation, and to all appearance within very few minutes of his lad, by opening a new Paffage for Breath; it gives fpeedy and certain Relief, and this when all other Methods fail: and without any con- fiderable Injury from the Indrqment. The Patient, in a Minute or two, is brought from the druggies of Death; to a fj^te of Complacency, Eafe and Secu¬ rity. In the large Field ©f Practical Phyfic ; perhaps there is not any one Method that works fo great a Change, for the better, in fo fliort a time. But however Beneficial this Operation is, in itfelf, we find it feldom practis’d ; very feldom in Compa- rifon to the occafions for it. That Gap which appears on the cutting a Tmoat, (the divided Parts being then drawn to their other more fixt ends;) together with the great Flux of Blood, when the Jugulars, and Ca¬ rotid Arteries are alfo wounded; create in mod Men a dread of this butcherly Operation; and make thofe, efpecially who are unacquainted with Anatomy, fu- fpe<St all Wounds of the Trachea, as mortal; and op- pofe Larjngotomj under all the mod urgent Circum- ftances. This Prejudice is dill of worfe Confequence, for that Squinzies may be, as they often have been, Epi¬ demical; (indances of which we have in JPanarol, Wier, Hippocrates, &c.) in which Cafe this Opera¬ tion becomes of more frequent neceffity; and greater numbers of Men mud periflj for not admit¬ ting it: Q.qq In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30336788_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
