Transactions of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association, Held at Philadelphia, Pa., May 29th, 30th and 31st, 1911 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association, Held at Philadelphia, Pa., May 29th, 30th and 31st, 1911Each year new diseases and new classifications are brought forth. But when the condition described is analyzed and placed on a pathological basis, we find that it is an old condition under a new name.Various societies have appointed committees on nomenclature. I had the good fortune to be 011 one of these committees, and in communication with the Health Department of the United States Government I found that it was impossible for us to use the same nomenclature on which their reports are based, for the simple reason that so many of our diseases are not necessarily causes of death, and the Government statistics are only based on diseases which are fatal, so that we have to have a much larger nomenclature than that used by the Government. However, it was agreed that the best, the most rational nomenclature, was that based on the pathological lesion, and that the name applied to the various diseases, serious or non-serious, should be based on the pathological alteration, so that the name used at once indicated to the reader the changes taking place in the structures described.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.