Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea : chiefly with a view to illustrate the affections of those organs which may require the operation of bronchotomy : including remarks on croup, cynanche laryngea, foreign bodies in the windpipe, wounds, &c. &c. / by William Henry Porter.

  • Porter, William Henry, 1790-1861.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea : chiefly with a view to illustrate the affections of those organs which may require the operation of bronchotomy : including remarks on croup, cynanche laryngea, foreign bodies in the windpipe, wounds, &c. &c. / by William Henry Porter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tendance on the Meath Hospital, I have met with a number of laryngeal diseases, sufficient to prove the importance that attaches to them on the score offi'equency of occurrence alone ; the nature of each of these I have endeavoured to investigate by dissection, whenever the death of the patient afforded an opportunity; and although I am far from believing I shall succeed in explaining the peculiarities of all or even the greater part of those affections, yet having commenced the undertaking I may possibly be followed by some other more capable, or possessing a more ex- tensive field for observation.—The subject is | second to none in difficulty or importance. The greater portion of the following pages formed a part of the Clinical Lectures delivered at the hospital during the past* season, and it is chiefly at the request of some of the students that they are now laid before the public. It has been already stated, that a vast deal of in- formation relative to laryngeal disease lies scat- tered in an unconnected form throughout va- rious periodical publications, and many short though valuable papers are to be found in the * December, 1825.