| Abstrakt: |
The symptoms of tubercular laryngitis are so troublesome and inconvenience the patient so much that anything in the way of additions to our armamentarium in its treatment merits attention. Although constitutional involvement is the rule and the ultimate prognosis bad, it is not necessarily always so, and recoveries do take place. There is also the case—denied, it is true, by some—where the larynx alone is affected. In many cases the local laryngeal lesion is the thing most complained of, even in cases where the constitutional lesions are considerable. The hoarseness, difficulty of speech, and perhaps difficulty in swallowing, are more troublesome than the pulmonary symptoms, hence it is our duty to do all we can toward the cure and relief of the laryngeal manifestations. Laryngeal tuberculosis manifests itself in two forms. The first, characterized by a general infiltration of the laryngeal structures, does not seem to me to offer very |
