A Treatise on the Diseases and Injuries of the Larynx and Trachea: Founded on the Essay to which was Adjudged the Jacksonian Prize for 1835Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1837 - 338 pages |
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Page 29 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Page 75 - The disease was not so much confined to the head or face, as common erysipelas, but it frequently attacked other parts of the surface of the body. Sometimes the internal fauces were attacked, and if it spread to the trachea it generally proved fatal.
Page 161 - ... to spread, and even ceases altogether without reaching the air-passages, in which case there is very little reason to be under any apprehension for the result. In most instances, however, at the end of four or five days, laryngeal symptoms begin to display themselves, such as a hoarse cough, alteration of the sound of the voice, and dyspn»a.
Page 208 - The following symptoms were noted down by our author soon after leaving the bedside of a patient. " When first seized with spasm of the glottis, the patient starts up suddenly, tossing his arms in wild affright; an expression of terror, as if attacked by some dreadful enemy within, sits upon his countenance ; the eyebrows are raised over balls that are starting from their sockets; the shoulders rise and fall, as with an open mouth, and incredible exertions, air is drawn through the nearly obstructed...
Page 97 - ... in length, situated mid-way between the larynx and the bifurcation of the trachea. The contraction relaxed gradually after the tube was slit, so that the day following, the part did not appear contracted or in a state of disease of any kind.
Page 226 - A hydatid developed in one of the ventricles of the larynx has been known to project so far into the cavity of this organ as to give rise to all the symptoms which usually attend a foreign body...
Page 161 - The diphtherite commences with pain in the throat, difficulty of swallowing, and general febrile symptoms ; on inspecting the fauces, the tonsils are observed to be swelled and reddened, and to have upon their surface patches of a thick, opake, whitish concretion, which at this period of the disease are easily detached from the mucous membrane. If allowed to go on unchecked, the inflammation and the membranous exudation spread by continuity to the adjacent parts, the soft palate and pharynx ; the...
Page 144 - ... the cellular tissue that enters into the composition of the mucous membrane, from the secernent arteries of which it is supposed the albuminous exudation is secreted.
Page 163 - ... 1793—94 were less often fatal; the epidemic constitution, he says, became less severe towards the end ; he also used mercurials freely on the later cases ; but it is farther noteworthy that " most of the cases which occurred in November and afterwards, were attended with inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, uvula and velum pendulum palati, and frequently large films of a whitish substance were found on the tonsils " — so that the disease was in its extension more than cynanche trachealis,...
Page 245 - He finally died in a fit of suffocation, when it was ascertained that one of the arytenoid cartilages had been divided, the fragment hanging by a piece of mucous membrane, so as to vibrate in the chink of the glottis, like a pea in a cat-call.