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MODIFIED CARBON ARCLIGHT

JOSEPH W. MILLER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1931;13(3):326-346.

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In the last few years, through the untiring energy of Dr. Wessely,¹ the university throat clinic—Hajekclinic—of Vienna has brought forth an ingenious method of treating tuberculosis of the upper air passages by means of concentrated artificial sunlight.

Before giving a detailed description of the cases of patients under my personal care from October, 1925, to October, 1928, I should like to record briefly what has been accomplished during the past sixty years in the treatment for laryngeal tuberculosis. Of course, local treatment of the larynx in any form or manner can be dated only from the discovery of the laryngeal mirror. The first attempts by pioneer laryngologists to treat the tuberculous larynx locally were summarized by Stoerk as a "noli me tangere" (touch me not). These words left a paralyzing influence for many years on further therapeutic attempts.

However, in 1876, M. Schmidt published a paper reporting the favorable . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Laryngology and Broncho-Oesophagoscopy, Service of Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky, Beth Israel Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Aug. 25, 1930.

Read in part at the annual meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York, June 5, 1929.

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