Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . cclude the glottis. Several such cases, in which Iforewarned patients of this result, occurred in individuals, withtumors within the larynx, who declined surgical interference,postponed it, or were dissuaded from it. The tumors were not very large in any of these instances, aswill be seen by reference to the accompanying illustrations oftwo of them (Figs. 135 and 136), and did not even produceserious dyspnoea; but they were in dangerous location
Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . cclude the glottis. Several such cases, in which Iforewarned patients of this result, occurred in individuals, withtumors within the larynx, who declined surgical interference,postponed it, or were dissuaded from it. The tumors were not very large in any of these instances, aswill be seen by reference to the accompanying illustrations oftwo of them (Figs. 135 and 136), and did not even produceserious dyspnoea; but they were in dangerous locations, andseriously compromised the integrity of the glottis. As these cases are particularly instructive, the two referredto are placed on record as examples of the series. A. S , a brewer, aged forty, was brought to me November 9, 1868, by Dr. Bloom, of Philadelphia, to be examined as to the cause of a chronic hoarse-ness which had existed for upward of twenty-five years. The patient had chronicfolliculous pharyngitis, with congestion of the larynx. The vocal cords werethickened and very red in color, and upon each of them was an irregular flabby.
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