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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![[ 4°4 ] fix. And thofe Carneous Portions both of the Tra¬ chea and Exterior parts, gradually joining and inter¬ mixing, became one folid Cicatrix from each end of the Wound almoft to the middle of the Wind-Pipe, where the Air continued in fome degree to have ah Exit. About the Fifteenth Day I removed fcveral pieces of Bones which had contracted a Caries in the Carti¬ lage (which in this old Man as in many others was grown OfTeous) and were thruft out by the New Flefh. He now Swallows with little trouble. Eats fufficiently, and nourifhes in Proportion. The Aperture about the Twenty fixth Day was almoft clos’d up, and in Four or Five Days more the Tides of the Wound were per¬ fectly join’d and Cicatriz’d, the Trachea performing its part in Refpiration as at other times without any confi- derable inconvenience. He fpeaks indifferent well, but is forc’t to take care in fwallowing, the Rimula not being exactly fhut as be¬ fore the Wound, which makes Liquor of any fort more apt to fall into the Canal, and fb caufe a Coi^i, Hoarfnefs, &c. He does not Swallow dry Meatsas well as formerly, but in all other refpeCts is as well as ever. Tliis Cure was in this manner perform’d by me John Keen, of RochinCornwal, in the Year 1696. as above. This fignal Hiftory affords Matter for much Obfer- vation; but the only ufe I fliall at prefent make of it, is, that if, in a Perfbn of this Age, (above Sixty ;) if in a Wound whereby the Trachea was Cut through, and feveral of the Cartilages beaten together ; the divided parts of the Trachea may be made to unite and grow](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30336788_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
