Volume 1

An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home].

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3 ] guifli it from other clifeafes; to difcover the nature of it; to point out when it is cureable, * and when not; perhaps to lay a foundation for improvement in its inoft defperate ftate ; that is the defign of the following pages. To be the firft author in treating a difeafe; to have no ahiflance from preceding experi¬ ence, is a fituation a little uncommon in thefe modern times. To this caufe, and to the rarity of the difeafe, mu Pc be imputed my not bringing it to that degree of improve¬ ment, that I could wifh ; and that has hap¬ pened in other difeafes. If this can ferve for a foundation to excite others to inquire, to preferve, and to communicate fadts ob- ferved by them, my labour will be well be¬ llowed. This difeafe appears to belong peculiarly to children; and the younger they are, af¬ ter they are weaned, the more liable they feeni to it. On the breaft, they appear lefs fub- jedt to it; or, which is as probable, as they cannot tell their complaints, it is taken for feme other difeafe. I never faw, or heard of one, above twelve years of age, affefted by it