Excerpt from Materia Medica and Therapeutics, And, Preventive Medicine The technique is as follows Place the patient in a te cumbent position. Using the usual aseptic precautions, locate by pressure the tender spot where the nerve pierces the thyrohyoid membrane, usually at the upper edge of the thyroid cartilage and one-third the distance from the outer edge. Introduce a somewhat blunted needle about cm. Into this point at right angles to the skin. Should the patient cough, the needle 18 in the lumen of the larynx and must be withdrawn. He must be forbidden to talk or to shout and told to signify ear pain by raising his hand. If the introduction of the needle has produced no discomfort, turn it upward and outward toward the ear, and if this does not produce intense pain move the needle cautiously in various dirce tions until the pain, referred to the ear, is produced. The instant the patient shows he is in pain, push the piston of the syringe slowly and allow only one or two drops of the 85 per cent. Solution of alcohol to escape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.