Laryngology today

Laryngology and Rhinology

Dr. H. Curtis of New York read a paper at the Edinburgh Meeting of the British Medical Association on the treatment of singers' laryngitis,1 in which he pointed out the importance of differentiating between the laryngitis of singers and of other people. In the former attrition is the most frequent cause._ / bad method of attack, especially the coup de glotte, is the initia cause of trouble, whi...

Factors important in laryngology fellow and laryngology fellowship selection.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine factors that laryngology fellowship directors believe are most important in choosing a fellow and that laryngology applicants believe are most important in choosing a program. The number of laryngology fellowship programs and the number of laryngology fellowship applicants have been increasing in recent years. Selection criteria in choosing a fellow or fellows...

Laryngology and Otology

was marked, and gave the impression of a large vessel. In the three boys' cases?aged respectively six, ten and eleven years? nasal obstruction, with enlarged tonsils and adenoids, existed. In one of the boys the pulsation was bilateral and very marked, communicating a heaving impulse to the left tonsil, which was hypertrophied. Connal reminds us that most observers have ascribed the pulsation t...

Recent advances in oto-laryngology.

The Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Introduction THE clinical detection of recruitment has aroused considerable interest because of its value in distinguishing nerve deafness from middle-ear deafness, and because it measures hearing ability over a range of intensity well above threshold. A discussion of its diagnostic applications will be found at the end of this paper. Many different recruitment tests have been developed but int...