Diseases of the nose and throat : a text-book for students and practitioners.

  • Ivins, Horace F.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Diseases of the nose and throat : a text-book for students and practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    to have some form of handle or attachment. In this country, a head-band is usually employed (see Fig. 11), but some prefer to attach the mirror to a heavy spectacle-frame, while others Fig. 11.—Head-Mirror with Band and Handle. think it more convenient to use a steel spring passing over the vertex to the occiput. When ready for examination the physician seats himself Fig. 12.—Spectaclk-Frame. or stands in front of the patient, who inclines his head slightly backward. The tip and external surface of the nose having been inspected, a closed nasal speculum is to be introduced. The instrument is held in the right hand for examination of the