Report on Progress in the Treatment of Diseases of the Throat

FREDERICK I. KNIGHT
1882 Boston Medical and Surgical Journal  
and any force then exerted by the extension bar, whether adjustable or elastic extensiou be used, cannot constrict or press injuriously upon the soft parts beneath, while the solid plaster-of-Paris foundation gives support to the muscles above the thigh, as well as serving to prevent the girth below the joint from slipping downward, the foundation being the segment of a cone with its base below. I can recommend this method of attachment for local joint splints as being free from many of the
more » ... ctions appertaining to other plans ; but these splints may be applied in any manner the surgeon may favor, and the essential principles of the splints may be connected with or inserted into any of the attachments of the splints in use at the present time. In conclusion, I shall not in this paper depict the especial forms of apparatus for the various joints of the body. That will be done in subsequent articles which will appear from time to time either in this or other mediums of communication with the profession to which I am proud to belong. important communication under this title to the American Laryngological Association at its session in this city in June of this year.2 The design of the communication was to show that the turbiuated bones, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may, under proper conditions, undergo marked hypertrophy. Dr. Delavan says that the view that hypertrophy is confined to the mucous membrane and submucous layer which covers these structures must be admitted to be erroneous when due consideration is given, first, to the theoretical reasons which weigh against it, and, second, to the strong array of clinical evidence to which it is op-
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