. Diseases of the nose and throat . ssary, andin which the groove can likewise be dispensed with. If anything, thetip should have a longer curve, while the width remains the same asin the original depressor (Fig. 110). Instead of the electroscope at-tached to the spatula, the forehead-light of the operator would answerequally well. With regard to the practical application of this method of opera-tion, Max Thorner has reported a case in which he removed a piece ofbone, four centimetres long, from the supraglottic portion of thelarynx of a young man aged 24. The operation was done by the aidof t
. Diseases of the nose and throat . ssary, andin which the groove can likewise be dispensed with. If anything, thetip should have a longer curve, while the width remains the same asin the original depressor (Fig. 110). Instead of the electroscope at-tached to the spatula, the forehead-light of the operator would answerequally well. With regard to the practical application of this method of opera-tion, Max Thorner has reported a case in which he removed a piece ofbone, four centimetres long, from the supraglottic portion of thelarynx of a young man aged 24. The operation was done by the aidof the autoscope without the use of cocaine, the time required beingonly a few seconds. CHAPTEE LXIV. INTUBATION. This method of relieving laryngeal stenosis has long been atheory, crude instruments being used to obtain the object in were not of much value, however, and it remained for ODwyerto introduce to the profession the method itself, with a full set of in-struments capable of accomplishing intubation. His own record in. Fig. 111.—ODwyers intubation-set. the use of these instruments has been brilliant indeed, the regret-table feature being that, at the moment when ODwyers tubes hadobtained a world-wide reputation, and the advantages which his re-searches had given to science were being fully realized, he should becalled from his labors and the glory which was the product of hisgenius. The saddest feature of all is that, notwithstanding this crown-ing effort for the good of humanity, he died a poor man.(350) INTUBATION. 351 CFDwyers tubes consist of a series of instruments of differentlengths and sizes, to suit the various ages of patients. Besides these,there is an introducer and an extractor that will fit all the tubes. Addto these a mouth-gag and a scale to regulate the size of the tube inaccordance with the age of the patient, and the outfit is complete ( and 112). The tube is a flattened cylinder bulging toward the centre. Thehead is rounded and flangi
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