On diseases of the throat and windpipe, as reflected by the laryngoscope : a complete manual upon their diagnosis and treatment / by George Duncan Gibb.

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1864
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Credit: On diseases of the throat and windpipe, as reflected by the laryngoscope : a complete manual upon their diagnosis and treatment / by George Duncan Gibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASES OP THE THROAT. Many Other thiugs might be mentioned, but the foregoing are the chief agents necessary in the treatment of the various aftectious of the throat, larynx, and nose. SECTION VIII._C0NCLUDIN6 HIUTS AND KEJfAEKS. In Studying laryngoscopy or rhinoscopy, a good anatomical knowledge should be obtamed of all the parts about the hroat larynx, and nose; this is a matter of some importance to enable the investigator to form a correct diagnosis of patho- logical conditions. There is no difficulty in foUowing this out upon the liviiig, but if any obstacles are encountered. It can be attempted on the dead without the least resistance It would be mconvenient to import a dead subject into one s dwelling, and equally so for a medical man in active practice to resort to a school to work upon the dead; both are obviated by procuring a human tongue and larynx with the upper part 0 the oesophagus, and placing or arranging them below a skull, with the lower jaw attached. This can be readily done upon a common table, the skull being supported on a few books. Or, if this be objectionable, th^ head and neck of a sheep will answer the same purpose. In following out le instructk,ns given in Czermak's monograph, published by the New Sydenham Society, the student ought to have no difficulty But I would recommend his doing what I myself iound of such essential service, namely, the creation ^f a curiosity amongst his non-medical friends (male and female) to see the special structures which play so important a part in «ng.ng. In this way I have examined parties of persons from three to thirty or more of both sexes and of aU ages, and have thus seen some nine hundred healthy throats and pairs of vocal cords, independently of those diseased. I have seen the larynx of very young children at the one examination, and it is astomshmg how well they comport themselves under the in-