TRACHEOTOMY

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 4

is the operation in which the wind-pipe or trachea is opened. The wind-pipe having been q a tube made for the purpose is inserted aa this the patient breathes. ‘The operation is required whenever. obstruction in the upper air pa ages is sufficient to prevent satisfactory respiration, a condition most often met with; in the diphtheria of infancy. [Seo ae [s. 417]