Identifier: pharmacopoeiafor00leff (find matches)
Title: A pharmacopoeia for the treatment of diseases of the larynx, pharynx and nasal passages ..
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lefferts, George Morewood, b. 1846
Subjects: Respiratory Tract Diseases Pharmacopoeias
Publisher: New York, London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e most reliable of the destructive agents,and therefore those commonly employed, will be foundin the above list. Upon both the nature of the case and the locality ofthe parts to be destroyed will depend the choice of theparticular form of caustic, the latter varies also, accord-ing to the views of the particular operator who uses it. Larynx. In the Larynx, caustic applications, for the purpose ofdestroying neoplasms of various nature, are by no meansas frequently employed as formerly ; the laryngeal for-ceps in some one of its varieties, or some other mechan-ical device for their removal, having justly supersededthem. Some operators still advise the use of the Gal-vano-cautery, beyond question the best method, shouldthe caustic treatment be adopted, and one very properlyemployed in some cases for the purpose of destroying thebase and site of a laryngeal growth to prevent its repro-duction, the greater part or all of which has beenpreviously removed by means of the forceps or ecraseur.
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Fig. 22.-GaIvano-cautery instrumentsfor use m the larynx. CAUSTIC A. 71 The destruction of the base of a laryngeal growth, afterits removal by forceps or otherwise, may be likewise ac-complished by the use of Argenti Nitras or the AcidiimChromicum, either salt being carried into the larynx andto the desired point by means of a delicate probe, underthe guidance afforded by the laryngoscopic mirror. Pharynx. Chronic Follicular Pharyngitis is most satisfactorilytreated by the destruction of the individual follicles andtheir nutrient vessels. Here again the fine Galvaiio-cauterypoint, carried deeply into each hypertrophied follicle untilits base is reached, forms the most efficient means. TheActual caute?y is recommended by some, and still anothermethod lies in an incision into each hypertrophied fol-licle (a few only being treated at each sitting) by meansof a small tenotomy knife, and the immediate subsequentapplication to each, of the Caustica Zinci lodati^ ZbiciChloridi, or of Acidum

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