Cancer of the Larynx [antikvár]

PREFACE Readers consult medical books for three different purposes: One reader may require quickly available practical information for the benefit of a particular patient in immediate need of diagnosis and treatment. For such readers, what to do and how to do it should stand out clearly, stripped of all logic, clinical evidence and historic data. A second reader may wish to go more profoundly into the subject, and may wish to review the clinical evidence on which opinions are based. Such a reader wishes to add to his medical knowledge or he may wish to prepare a paper on the subject; or to the information found in books he may wish to add his own opinions and clinical experience. Such circumstances require reports of concrete clinical cases, tabulations, analyses, deductions, logic and the bases therefor. Etiology, and its corollary prophylaxis, derive a special interest after a series of deplorable experiences. Phases of the subject that would be irrelevant to the immediate clinical requirements of diagnosis and treatment become practical as well as important after the clinical needs of the patient have been supplied. A third reader may desire and have the opportunity for lighter reading; perhaps in his study, or on a train, or in any moment of leisure. Under such circumstances the medical history of the sloughs of trial, tribulation, pitfall and error through which our predecessors waded and perhaps floundered-things that were brushed aside by the urgency of clinical work-becomes fascinating reading. The three readers referred to in the preceding paragraphs do not necessarily mean three different individuals, but perhaps rather a single individual in the different circumstances in which he may find himself at different times in the course of a busy medical life. An effort to supply the needs of the reader under the three groups of circumstances has resulted in the present arrangement of the material in three parts; namely, I. Procedures. II. General considerations. III. Historical notes. Chevalier Jackson. Philadelphia, Pa, ChEVALIER L. jackson. October, 1939