On the subject of priority in the medication of the larynx and trachea / by Horace Green.
- Horace Green
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the subject of priority in the medication of the larynx and trachea / by Horace Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ON THE SUBJECT OE PRIORITY IN THE titration of tjjr farpr ani fradjta. BY HORACE GREEN, M. D. [From the American Medical Monthly, April, 1854.] I feel that some apology may be considered due from me to the readers of the Monthly, and to my professional brethren generally, for claiming their attention to the matter of 'priority in the application of a solution of nitrate of silver to the interior of the larynx and trachea. If so, let it be remembered—as many of the profession certainly will remember—that, when the subject of cauterizing the mucous membrane of the air passages was first brought before the medical public, many years ago, by the writer; when it was asserted that a sponge-probang loaded with a solution of nitrate of silver, “could, not only without injury, but with mani¬ fest advantage in disease, be passed through the glottis and larynx down into the trachea;” that then, the savans in the medical profession pro¬ nounced it an “ anatomical impossibility,” an “ unwarrantable innovation in practical medicinewhilst many others, anxious to echo these sentiments,, but less cautious of their phraseology, did not hesitate to denounce the- author a charlatan, and his practice a “ humbug!” If, in connection with these antecedents, it is remembered that now, when this once condemned practice has gained adherents among the best of the profession in every country, and is admitted, by high authority, to be not only a “ most valua¬ ble addition to practical medicine, but that the results of this method of treatment will lead to important changes in the prophylaxis and cure of pulmonary phthisis* when nearly all the leading journals of Europe have * British and Foreign Medical Review, Yol. XXIY, p. 504.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30798656_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
