Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride.

  • Gottstein, Jacob, 1832-1895.
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[1883]
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Credit: Diseases of the larynx / by Dr. J. Gottstein ... trans. and added to by P. M'Bride. 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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    Although fully aware of the value of recent text-books, e.g. those of Ziemssen, Stork, and Mackenzie (translated and annotated by Sernon), it yet appeared to me that another work on laryngeal disease, adapted to the needs of the general practitioner and student, would supply a want. With this intention I have endeavoured to give a short, but so far as possible complete, systematic account of laryngeal diseases. Considering the effect of the introduction of the laryngoscope upon the development of laryngeal pathology and therapeutics, I have, of course, discussed laryngoscopy fully in the first or .general part, and in the second or. special division due stress has been laid on its importance with reference to diagnosis and treatment. On the other hand, I have done my best to pay proper attention to evidence as to origin, pathology, and semeiology, gained from other methods of examination, and not to lose sight of the connection between local and general symptoms. The records of a series of personal observations, chosen with a view to impressing special points in diagnosis, and the addition of a number of illustrations, will, it is hoped, add to the clearness of the descriptions. I have referred as much as possible to the works of my fellow laryn- gologists, as is only proper in a text-book, but have not altogether put on one side my own experience and views, derived from almost twenty years of special practice. In some diseases {e.g. laryngitis submucosa, nervous cough, chorea laryngis, and disturbances of co-ordination), 1 have deviated more or less from the classification of other authors, but I do not think that this lias been done at the expense of the generalisation so necessary in a text-book. The chapter on disturbed co-ordination has not, so far as I know, been before worked out in the same manner. Although the work is chiefly intended for the general practitioner and student, I venture to hope that even the experienced specialist may find in it some points of Interest Bbkslau, October U Db .1. GOTTSTEIN.