The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 407
y comfortable night, occasion- ally sleeping quietly and calmly. Several efforts were made to take liquids, but very little if any was swallowed. She retained the sitting posture, with her head slightly inclined forward. In no other position was respi- ration easy. Nourishment could not be supplied… … Cut from drawing by Dr. McConnel, showing the growth in the larynx. Specimen No. 1221 Army Medical Museum, Med. series. At the post-mortem, made a few hours after death, it was impossible to pass a sound (or even a No. 9 catheter) into the oesophagus, even after separating the trachea from the…
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