Neuroses of sensation of the pharynx and larynx, or sensory neuroses of the throat / by Louis Elsberg.

  • Elsberg, Louis, 1836-1885.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Neuroses of sensation of the pharynx and larynx, or sensory neuroses of the throat / by Louis Elsberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEUROSES OF SENSATION OF THE PHARYNXi AND LARYNX, OR SENSORY NEUROSES OF THE THROAT* By LOUIS ELSBERG, M.D., NEW YORK, PROFESSOR OF LARYNGOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE THROAT IN DARTMOUTH MEDICAL COLLEGE. SECTION I.—DEFINITION. Neurosis of sensation of the throat^ is defined to be functional—and not merely subordinately sympto- matic—disordered sensibility of the throat. (I mean to use the word functionat neither “ unphysiologically ” nor “ ir- rationally ” : it does not imply with me that there is no physical basis for the particular derangement of function, but that the structural change is either remote from the organ the function of which is deranged, or that it is molec- ular and not discernible with th'e means of observation at our command.) The definition is meant to exclude, on the one hand, cases of neuritis and observed alteration in nerve tissue of the throat; and, on the other, throat neuroses which have no other than a symptomatic significance, as the increased sensibility and painfulness in inflammatory * By special appointment prepared for, and partially read before, the Inter- national Congress in London. ^The term “throat is here used technically, to denote all the parts which at the present day the throat-specialist, or laiyngologist, is called upon to treat: par excellence, tlierefore, the larynx and pharynx. Reprinted from the Archives of Medicine, Vol. vii. No. i, February, 1882.