Sentence:  It is rarely, too, that one will be able to demonstrate readily upon a patient all that he can observe in his own person; for the patient has not the same practice of the auto-laryngoscopist, nor the same interest in it; while, in addition, his organs are seldom in a state of complete <WSD>normalism</WSD>, or he would have no occasion to consult the practitioner. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Normality; A state in which most things are normal.