The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 118
epressor, the depression of the base of the tongue can be increased at will, and without removing the gag from the mouth. By this means, the lower part of the pharynx can be made more accessible for division very low down of the palato-pharyngeus mus- cles, and for other manipulations on this part… … The levator palati muscle of each side was thoroughly divided, and also the muco-perio steal membrane which lines the loicer part of the internal pterygoid plate, with knives like those represented at Fig. 6.
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