A text-book on diseases of the ear, nose and throat . eforehand ; fortelling a child that heis not going to be hurtis often the first sug-gestion that he maybe.* He summarizesthe difficulties of in-fantile laryngoscopyas, first, a refusal ofthe child to open the mouth, to be overcome by a little patience or compression of the nostrils,when the patient must open the mouth to breathe ; second, refusal toprotrude the tongue, which indeed is not really necessary; and, third,the pendent position of the epiglottis, for which, if the first two havebeen overcome, the examiner may rely on the advantage
A text-book on diseases of the ear, nose and throat . eforehand ; fortelling a child that heis not going to be hurtis often the first sug-gestion that he maybe.* He summarizesthe difficulties of in-fantile laryngoscopyas, first, a refusal ofthe child to open the mouth, to be overcome by a little patience or compression of the nostrils,when the patient must open the mouth to breathe ; second, refusal toprotrude the tongue, which indeed is not really necessary; and, third,the pendent position of the epiglottis, for which, if the first two havebeen overcome, the examiner may rely on the advantage of reflexgagging, which will permit of a fair, though momentary, view of theparts it is desired to inspect. Kirstein, of Berlin, has recently introduced or rather revived themethod of direct examination of the laiynx and of the posterior instead of autoscopy^ has been suggested as a namefor this method, since the former conveys the meaning that in this pro-cedure the laryngotracheal axis is made to form more or less of a straight 38. Kirsteins laryngoscope with electric-light attachment and inter-changeable depressor. (Thorner.) 594 DISEASES OF THE LARYNX. Fig. 244.
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