Excerpt from The Laryngoscope: Directions for Its Use, and Practical Illustrations of Its Value in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Throat and Nose; Two Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians Now, it appears not a little remarkable that a method of exploring the larynx at once 8 and so effectual should not have come earlier into use, - that it should have been reserved for the workers of the present time to devise a plan by which literally a new light has been thrown upon a very common, painful, and fatal class of diseases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.