Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s. This sinful custom is, however, passing away, and with it, ina certain measure, the disease that it invited. To these three special causes, then, we must look for an ex-planation of the prevalency of dysphonia clericorum, and not toother general harassments of their calling; for it is abundantlyestablished by statistics that clergymen are the longest-lived of anyclass except farmers. The local treatment of this disea
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . s. This sinful custom is, however, passing away, and with it, ina certain measure, the disease that it invited. To these three special causes, then, we must look for an ex-planation of the prevalency of dysphonia clericorum, and not toother general harassments of their calling; for it is abundantlyestablished by statistics that clergymen are the longest-lived of anyclass except farmers. The local treatment of this disease consists in the application ofsolutions of nitrate of silver, or alum, or iodine, or tannin, or gly-cerine, or carbolic acid to the diseased membrane by means ofsponges or brushes. Sometimes physicians make these applicationswith the aid of the laryngoscope. At home patients may take inhalations. (See Inhalations.) The treatment should be followed up perseveringly. Much re-Lief, and sometimes permanent cure, may result. 686 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES, LARYKX, DISEASES OF. The larynx is liable to very many diseases, only a few of whichcan be spoken of LARYNGOSCOPE. Since the invention and popularization of the laryngoscope weare much better able to study the diseases of the larynx than for-merly, and can also treat them much more successfully. The laryngoscope consists of a reflector to send the light intothe throat, and a small mirror to receive the image of the vocalcords. (See cuts of Laryngoscope^) The discovery and populari-zation of this instrument are due to two Germans, Czermak andTiirck. It is now quite extensively used by physicians. By meansof this apparatus it is possible to see the vocal cords with perfectdistinctness. When sounds are made they open and close withgreat rapidity. (See cuts of Larynx under Anatomy and Physi-ology.) It is also possible to get a view of the rings of the windpipebelow the vocal cords. Among the diseases which are fou
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