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.
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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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    throat a term for a good reason (as you will pres- -ently see) yet notwithstanding not happily chosen, and for which I have long substituted in my lectures that of atheromatous throat. Although only two wel] marked cases ofthis important disease have come under my own care, I am not inclined to believe that it is a very rare disease, but it is one which natu- rally would not easily present itself to the specialist, unless through the intervention of the family physi- cian. Both the following cases came to me without such intervention. Mrs. B. K., JBt. 51 years, ])or)i in Germany, but having resided in this country about thirty years, consulted me on February 16th, 1865. She is the mother of a former patient of mine, a young lady who had had chronic follicular inflammation of the pharyngo-laryngeal mucous membrane for years, but is now entirely well. Mrs. K. is the mother of three daughters and four sons now living, in addition to whom, three children have died from various causes within the past few years. Her husband died eight years ago from typhoid fever. Her own throat has troubled her more or less, almost as long as she can remember, either feeling distressingly dry, or there being too much phlegm ; all her chil- dren were frequently attacked with sore throat. She has always been a hard working woman from childhood, has led a rather temperate life, but seen a great deal of trouble, drinks now and has for some years, a glass or so of lager-beer daily, which she thinks absolutely necessary to keep her strength