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lefs Exceptions, and needleft Fears, commonly exprefl 
againft this fafe and ufeful Operation. 
Laryngotomj is highly to be valued, for that in the 
greateft extremity, when a Man is in mod imminent 
danger of vSuffocacion, and to all appearance withia 
very few minutes of his laft, by opening a new Paflage 
for Breath: it gives fpeedy and certain Relief, and 
this when all other Methods fail : and without any con- 
fiderable Injilry from the Inftrument. The Patient, in 
a Minute or two, is brought from the ftruggles of 
Death; to a flate of Complacency, Eafe. and Secu- 
rity. In the large Field of Practical Phyfic ; perhaps 
there is not any one Method that works fo great a 
Change, for the better, in (o fhort a time. 
But how^ever Beneficial this Operation is, in itfei^ 
we find it feldom pradis'd ; very ieldom in Compa- 
rifon to the occafions for it. That Gap which appears 
on the cutting a Throat, (the divided Parts being then 
drawn to their other more fixt ends;) together with 
the great Flux of Blood, when the Jugulars, and Ca- 
rotid Arteries are alfo wounded ; create in moft Men 
a dread of this butcherly Operation; and make thofe, 
efpecially who are unacquainted with Anatomy, fu- 
fped: all Wounds of the Trachea^ as mortal ; and op- 
pofe Laryngotomy under all the moft urgent Circum- 
ftances. 
This Prejudice is ftili of worfe Gonfequence, for 
that Squinzies may be, as 'they often have been, Epi- 
demical; Cinftances of which we have in Panarvl, 
Wier, Hippocrates, &c.) in which Cafe this Opera- 
tion becomes of more frequent necefilty ; and 
greater numbers of Men muft perilh for not admit- 
ting it. 
Q.qq 
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