Excerpt from Intubation Versus Tracheotomy: Being a Study of 858 Cases Operated on at the Boston City Hospital The Operation of intubation for the relief of croup is one that has excited the deepest interest in the last few years, and its merit is a question Of the greatest practical value. It comes into competition, of course, with the Older Operation of tracheotomy, and the question Of the comparative merits Of the two is one that has been the subject of many articles. At the end Of six years of trial, during which time ...
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Excerpt from Intubation Versus Tracheotomy: Being a Study of 858 Cases Operated on at the Boston City Hospital The Operation of intubation for the relief of croup is one that has excited the deepest interest in the last few years, and its merit is a question Of the greatest practical value. It comes into competition, of course, with the Older Operation of tracheotomy, and the question Of the comparative merits Of the two is one that has been the subject of many articles. At the end Of six years of trial, during which time the Operation has been performed upon thousands of cases, intubation stands in a position to be judged on its merits, and to be compared with the operation of tracheotomy as a life-saving measure. There are two methods of presenting this com parison to the reader: (i) By the relation of per sonal experience and by weight of authority1 (2) by the statistical method, which is open to the Objection pertaining to all statistical inquiries in medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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