Throat ailments : more especially the enlarged tonsil and elongated uvula in connexion with defects of voice, speech, hearing, deglutition, respiration, cough, nasal obstruction, and the imperfect development of health, strength, and growth, in young persons / by James Yearsley.

  • Yearsley, James, 1805-1869.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Throat ailments : more especially the enlarged tonsil and elongated uvula in connexion with defects of voice, speech, hearing, deglutition, respiration, cough, nasal obstruction, and the imperfect development of health, strength, and growth, in young persons / by James Yearsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE I. Fir/. 1. Natural appearance of the Soft Palate, Uvula, Anterior and Posterior Arches. Fiq. 2. Uvula elongated in the case of a gentleman, which for many years had produced cough, supposed and treated as of pulmonary origin. Fig. 3. Tonsils enlarged, filling up the sides of the Pharynx, and materially diminishing the area of the Fauces. The voice, speech, hearing, deglutition, and respiration are all usually more or less affected in such a case. Although the tongue is depressed, the extent of the enlargements is but imper- fectly shown. PLATE II. Section of the Nose, Mouth, Soft Palate, Uvula, Tonsil, Pharynx, upper part of the (Esophagus and Trachea, showing the route taken by the Eustachian Tube Catheter along the inferior meatus and floor of the nostril into the orifice of the Eustachian Tube ; showing, also, the perfect facility and safety with which the most timid patient may introduce the Naso-guttural Probe to the back of the Throat, or wash the throat by the Naso-guttural Tube and Bottle. PLATE III. Sketch of the Author's Elastic Naso-guttural Probe for the re- moval of obstructions of the nasal passages, and the Elastic Naso- guttural Tube and P>ottle, fir washing and gargling the posterior