. Diseases of the ear; a text-book for practitioners and students of medicine. Fig. 56.—Folding tongue depressor. Fig. 57.—Turcks tongue depressor. rotated slightly by elevating the handle, the blade restingupon the incisor teeth, thus exerting slight forward this way efforts at retching on the part of the patient areavoided, as the base of the tongue, instead of being crowdedinto the throat, a circumstance which always results in ex-citing an effort of deglutition, is drawn forward out of thepharynx. The patient is directed to breathe quietly, andat an opportune moment, when the p
. Diseases of the ear; a text-book for practitioners and students of medicine. Fig. 56.—Folding tongue depressor. Fig. 57.—Turcks tongue depressor. rotated slightly by elevating the handle, the blade restingupon the incisor teeth, thus exerting slight forward this way efforts at retching on the part of the patient areavoided, as the base of the tongue, instead of being crowdedinto the throat, a circumstance which always results in ex-citing an effort of deglutition, is drawn forward out of thepharynx. The patient is directed to breathe quietly, andat an opportune moment, when the palatal muscles are re-laxed and the velum hano-s verticallv downward, the rhino- I38 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. scopic mirror, previously slightly warmed over the lamp, iscarried rapidly into the mouth and made to assume a positionto the one side or the other of the uvula. The rays of lightfrom the head mirror are directed upon the surface of therhinoscopic mirror, which, as the inclination of its polishedsurface is about one hundred and thirty-five degrees, directsthe rays
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