Selected monographs : Czermak on the practical uses of the laryngoscope. Dusch on thrombosis of the cerebral sinuses. Schroeder van der Kolk on atrophy of the brain. Radicke on the application of statistics to medical enquiries. Esmarch on the uses of cold in surgical practice.

  • New Sydenham Society.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Selected monographs : Czermak on the practical uses of the laryngoscope. Dusch on thrombosis of the cerebral sinuses. Schroeder van der Kolk on atrophy of the brain. Radicke on the application of statistics to medical enquiries. Esmarch on the uses of cold in surgical practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (lition of the normal flowing of tears; in fact, we have never observed the slightest inconvenience of that function in our patient. Nevertheless, we do not wish to deny that, under certain circum- stances, the difference of pressure exerted by the respiratory move- ments can have any influence whatever upon the flow of tears. Fig. Case 2.—Volypus attached to the right vocal cord, giving rise to constant hoarseness, supposed to he nervous ('Bib./ ISiO. 8). On January 2d, 1859, Dr. Hirscliler brought to me a gentleman, forty years of age, belonging to the upper ranks of society, who had been attended for many years for a nervous hoarseness. This affec- tion suddenly came on after a considerable effort (of the voice), and never wholly disappeared, but had always momentarily grown worse under the influence of violent emotion. The laryngoscopic examination, which the patient sustained without the least difficulty, afforded me a surprising result; it showed, in fact, that the constant hoarseness was not of a nervous character, but that it was due to an acci- dental round and uneven production, of a dark colom', and of which its base, somewhat large, occupied a spot situated about the middle of the right vocal cord. I recognised the soft consistence of this tumom' by the agitation which it under- went dui'ing the vibrations of the vocal cord, and by its flexibility when partially squeezed by the glottis. The alteration of the voice dming emotion led us to suppose that changes in the size and consistence of this tumour niight result from disorders in the circulation, rigure 15 repre- sents a sketch taken immediately after the examination. Dr. Semeleder, of Vienna, to whom I sent this patient, has since confirmed not only, in all their details, the existence of this polypus, but alsoj later, as it appears, the growth of the tumour. rig. 16. Polyjnis attaclied to tlie right vocal cord, the real cause of a supposed nervous aphonia.