A treatise on diseases of the air passages : comprising an inquiry into the history, pathology, causes, and treatmen, of those affections of the throat called bronchitis, chronic laryngitis, clergyman's sore throat, etc., etc. / by Horace Green.

  • Horace Green
Date:
1852
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Credit: A treatise on diseases of the air passages : comprising an inquiry into the history, pathology, causes, and treatmen, of those affections of the throat called bronchitis, chronic laryngitis, clergyman's sore throat, etc., etc. / by Horace Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. ]. The rod of this instrument is composed of whale- bone ; is about ten inches in length, curved at the smallest end, to which is securely attached a small round piece of fine sponge. («.) The curve which will be found suited to the greatest number of cases, is one, which wiH form the arc of one quarter of a circle (as in the drawing), whose diameter is four inches. Fig. 2. Knife for the excision of hypertrophied tonsils, having a strong handle, witli a long slender blade, slightly hawk-billed, and terminating in a blunt or probe point. Fig. 3. Pair of crooked forceps; one blade of the instrument terminating in small claws; tlie other, of the form of a double tenaculum. With this instrument the tonsil may be seized, drawn out from between the pillars of the fauces, and firmly held, when it can be readily excised at any point. Fig. 4. Curved scissors, for truncating the uvula. Fig. 5. Forceps, with long and slender blades, finely serrated, for the purpose of seizing the extremity of the uvula, which may bo retained, while excision is made with the scissors, above described.