A manual of diseases of the nose and throat / by Cornelius Godfrey Coakley.

Date:
1906
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A manual of diseases of the nose and throat / by Cornelius Godfrey Coakley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    right nasal cavity is being inspected, and in the right hand when inspecting the left. There are many other forms of specula, one of which, the Myles speculum (Fig. 9), is self-retaining. This Fig. 8. may be an advantage occasionally when one desires to have both hands free for operative work. The Myles speculum should be inserted with the blades closed and with the cross-bar up toward the Fig. 9. Myles’ nasal speculum. roof of the nose, and then the blades slid apart until the desired dilatation of the orifice is obtained. With the no.stril well dilated one proceeds to examine the structures within the nose.