Chevalier Jackson's Laryngoscope

An airway pastel by Chevalier Jackson.

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Bach, Handel, and the Chevalier Taylor.

But to proceed, I have seen a vast variety of singular animals, such as dromedaries, camels, &c and particularly at Leipsick, where a celebrated master of music, who had already arrived to his 88th year, received his sight by my hands; it is with this very man that the famous Handel was first educated, and with whom I once thought to have had the same success, having all circumstances in his fa...

The Chevalier Taylor and his strabismus operation.

IN several of his many writings Taylor maintained that he could cure squint without risk by a prompt and almost painless operation. As far as has been known up to now, he himself never described the theoretical basis and the method of his operation. We have had information only from his contemporaries, who described his mode of procedure. At Rouen, Lecat (1743) saw him cutting off a strip of co...

The Laryngoscope

Classics from the laryngoscope.

This classic article meticulously detailed the spiral ganglion cell (SGC) populations in 100 patients with variable degrees of hearing loss and known diagnoses to assess the correlation with speech discrimination scores and to hypothesize upon the inherent ability to stimulate the remaining spiral ganglia successfully with cochlear implants. Important observations from this study were that spir...