A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 31.—Frankels Post-Rhinal Mirror, a, the hinge ; b, the running bar. of a metal rod about four inches in length, one end of which was fixed intoa wooden handle, while the other was widened toward the distal extremityand terminated in a short blunt right-angled hook a quarter of an inch inlength. Czermak remarks that the size and curve of the hook must vary. Fig. 32.—Palate Hooks. A. Voltolinis palate hook; B, Frankers palate hook ; C, Czermaks palate hook. according to
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose : including the pharynx, larynx, trachea, oesophagus, nose and naso-pharynx . Fig. 31.—Frankels Post-Rhinal Mirror, a, the hinge ; b, the running bar. of a metal rod about four inches in length, one end of which was fixed intoa wooden handle, while the other was widened toward the distal extremityand terminated in a short blunt right-angled hook a quarter of an inch inlength. Czermak remarks that the size and curve of the hook must vary. Fig. 32.—Palate Hooks. A. Voltolinis palate hook; B, Frankers palate hook ; C, Czermaks palate hook. according to the proportion of the parts. The value of an instrument ofthis kind is strongly insisted on by Yoltolini, who uses a much larger hookprovided with two small wings attached to the distal extremity of theshank, just before the bend (Fig. 32, A). The object of these wings ap- 1 Der Kehlkopfspiesel und seine Verwerthurig fur Phvsiolosie uud Medizin. Leip-zig, 1860. - Rhinoscopie und Pliaryngoscopie, 1879, p. 17. RHINOSCOPY. 173 pears to be to form a kind of spoon-shaped cavity which supports the uvulain the middle line, thus keeping it from obstructing the view. An instru-ment of intermediate size and fenestrated at the upturned part of the bladeis used by Frankel (Fig. 32, B), who also occasionally employs an instru-ment combining a gag, a tongue-depressor, and a groove to hold his palate-hook. But it is very seldom that such instruments, however ingenious,can be successful
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