The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 373
omewhat difficult, is likewise dotted with these same fleshy granulations, appearing much the same as the normal papilla?, which, in this instance, are hypertrophied. If we next turn to the larynx — the point, perhaps, of greatest interest . — the laryngoscopic mirror will reflect the picture which… … into detail, I find the epiglottis so Fig. 1. hypertrophied that it not only presses against the dorsum of the tongue, closing the vallecula3, but like- wise overhangs the superior laryngeal aperture in such a manner that a view of the interior of its cavity is much obstructed. It is hard, un-…
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