Clinical notes on diseases of the larynx ... / by William Marcet.

  • William Marcet
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1869
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    a few pieces retained in the back of tlie month, and some of it mixed with salt, and applied to the throat externally in a waterproof bag, will enable the pharynx to tolerate the presence of the mirror. Sir Duncan Gibb administers bromide of ammonium; but with the other means and a certain allowance of patience, I have, as a rule, succeeded on the first visit. I should say that, if everything be ready before- hand, a first laryngoscopic examination takes from five to twenty minutes. On the following visits the in- spection of the larynx will usually be found much easier than on the first, and after a time the state of the larynx can be ascertained in a minute or two, and even in a few seconds. i\mong over a hundred out- patients at the Gonsumj)tion Hospital, Bronipton, I con- trive to make a laryngoscopic inspection of a certain number of cases of laryngeal disease at nearly every sitting. I have found want of time, requiring a hurried inspection of the larynx, a frequent cause of failure, so that the saying more haste less speed is es- sentially true in the present case; indeed, it should be borne in mind, in every laryngoscopic examination, that as a rule, it will be a saving of time to put olf a first inspection if it must be done within ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, unless the patient's throat be able to bear at once the introduction of the mirror. The acquirement of skill in the art of Laryngoscopy is the natural result of diHgent perseverance in the use of the instrument, directed with intelligence. It is not so much by reading of the difficulties to be met with, and how they are to be overcome, as by acquiring the habit of finding out, practically, where the fault lies, that the present art is to be mastered; and I can only b2
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