Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . -,would be far more favorable. Whatever the origin of the necrosis, the cartilage is soondestro^^ed, either by molecular disintegration or is even brokenin pieces. Sometimes it undergoes ossification; at others, SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUELS OF FEVERS. 23 caseous degeneration. The articulations of the cartilages arealso often destroyed, especially those of the cricoid, with thearjtenoid or with the thyroid ; and thus again voice is function of the muscles, especiall^^ those which open theglottis, is impaired or destroyed, from direct im


Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . -,would be far more favorable. Whatever the origin of the necrosis, the cartilage is soondestro^^ed, either by molecular disintegration or is even brokenin pieces. Sometimes it undergoes ossification; at others, SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUELS OF FEVERS. 23 caseous degeneration. The articulations of the cartilages arealso often destroyed, especially those of the cricoid, with thearjtenoid or with the thyroid ; and thus again voice is function of the muscles, especiall^^ those which open theglottis, is impaired or destroyed, from direct implication of themuscles or from destruction of their cartilaginous attachments, Fig. \\\, ^i Perichondritis laryngea following typhoid ; abscess opened from oesophagus andseen frora behind, a, b, necrosed and partly destroyed cricoid cartilage; betweena and b the dark spot indicates the point where the abscess communicated withthe trachea; it did not communicate with the oesophagus; c, crico-aryten. Tiirck, Krankh. des Kehlkopfes, p. 218, fig. 80. or of the articulation; and thus the vocal chord of that side isimmobilized, and altered voice and stenosis of the larynx an abscess form about the cricoid, it may not only burst into 24 THE TONER LECTURES. the larynx but also into the pliarynx, and a fistulous oponingbe establishetl by which food may enter the larynx and trachea. Fig. 5.


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