Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...great swelling of both vocal cords, and a new ulceration of the size of a pinhead, above the circumscribed loss of substance on the right appendages of the vocal cords. We began again to inject the sublimate solution, and it required the further amount of 2 gr. to effect perfect restoration. But after a complete cure, a raw and somewhat hoarse sound of the voice remained, resulting from the retraction of the cicatrized tissue above the processus vocaHs of the right vocal cord, and thus bringing about an insufficient closure of the glottis. In the following case, the sublimate injection was used with good result, for ulceration in the larynx, but probably interruption caused the later arising stenosis of the larynx, which produced so much dyspnoea even impending suffocation, that tracheotomy had to be performed. Case 37.--Mrs. B., thirty-eight years old, mother of a seven years old, healthy child; married about twelve years ago; was taken in December, 1865, with painful deglutition and cough. Two physicians examined her, and declared her to be suffering from tuberculosis. The treatment being of no avail, a third physician was consulted. He declared her disease to be syphilis, and prescribed a mercurial treatment, followed by iodide of potassium. But, as the patient got no better, she was sent to our hospital'. Statusprsesens March 21, 1868.--Patient is pale and cachectic; examination of the genitals reveals only oedematous swelling of the labia majora and superficial erosions of the swollen mouth of the womb. Inspection of the phrynx shows the right arcus palato-pharyngeus to be changed into broad and almost transparent fibres; the left partly grown together with the posterior wall of the pharynx. The place of this growth exhibits a longitudinal ulcer, with ...
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
