Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 36: February to August, 1847
The editor ofrthe New York Medical and Surgical Reporter, in defence of Dr. Green, calls attention to an article by M. Trousseau, recently pub lished, as affording additional evidence that this learned French physician and ifis associate, were not fully aware of the practicability of making medicinal applications to the interior of the larynx. In this article, the writer details one hundred and twelve cases of croup, in which he perform ed the operation of tracheotomy and he recommends, if there is reason to believe that the larynx alone rs the seat of the lesion, that a sponge, moistened with a solution of the nitrate of silver, be introduced through the artificial opening, and passed over the tracheal membrane. If Trous seau had been in the habit of making topical applications to the cavity of the larynx, in the way proposed by Dr. Green, and at the same time be lieved that the solution of nitrate of silver, locally applied, would exercise a salutary influence in controlling or modifying the disease, he would assuredly have availed himself of his knowledge and skill: in this-respect, before resorting to the. Operation of tracheotomy.
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