Excerpt from A Guide to Diseases of the Nose and Throat and Their Treatment

To acquire the necessary dexterity to examine a patient systematically so as to overlook nothing, to recognise and put in its proper place the particular pathological condition found, and finally, but chiefly, to treat both the patient and the local abnormality successfully, seem to me the three most important objects of a course of study at a special hospital. This book, which is founded on lectures given at the Throat Hospital with these objects in view, is now published in the hope of helping those who are either attending or have attended a short course of study at special Departments or special Hospitals for Diseases of the Throat and Nose. I trust the former may find it a useful guide to examination, diagnosis and treatment, and the latter a help in putting into practice the knowledge they have gained.

In dealing with the many and varied diseases which may affect the Upper Respiratory Tract, it is undesirable to follow any one plan too rigidly, but in the main I have endeavoured to discuss etiology chiefly from the point of view of preventive treatment, to describe the gross pathology or naked eye changes sufficiently fully to help in diagnosis, to lay stress on those symptoms which require special treatment or are characteristic of the particular disease, and to give a full and detailed account of the various methods of treatment.

I have obtained much help from the published works of many authors - British, Continental and American - whose opinions are as far as possible acknowledged in the text. I am fully aware, however, that the names of many authors, whose works have materially added to our knowledge, are omitted, but the scope of this book does not admit of a résumé of all the valuable work which has been accomplished during the last ten years. If, however, credit is not given where credit is due, I am truly sorry.

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