On the connection of throat and other diseases : abstract of a paper read before the New York Medical Journal Association, Jan. 7th, 1870 / by L. Elsberg, M.D.

  • Elsberg, Louis.
Date:
1870
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Credit: On the connection of throat and other diseases : abstract of a paper read before the New York Medical Journal Association, Jan. 7th, 1870 / by L. Elsberg, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    between the two is too striking not to be noticed frequently by every physician, after once having his attention called to it. There are other neuralgias in various parts of t\w body also connected with angina, such as tooth and face ache, and even cases of that anxiety. dyspncBa. sense of suiFocation, with violent pain about the sternum, extending toward the arms, to which the name angina-pectoris has been given. Ne^^t comes the sympathy which is observed be- tween mucous membranes of the body not continu ous, and it is here especially the genital organs of t]iefemale, that I desire to call attention to. Follicu- lar disease, catarrh, or graver morbid processes of the rectal mucous membrane are occasionally found conjoined with corresponding throat diseases, both with and without affecting the intervening mucous membrane, and the urethral and vesical lining mem- brane of both males and females frequently sympa- thizes with the faucial; bat analogous affections of the throat and of the vaginal and uterine mucous piembrane so often coexist, that I have come to assert that hardly ever does a woman suffer for any length of time from disease of one of these regions, without becoming affected also in the other. This, even if admitted, might be supposed to be coincidental; especially asboth throat and uterine diseases are very common in this country, are caused by similar kinds of exposures, and are what is called fashion- able just now, being in reality, better understood ^nd more thoroughly investigated than formerly;