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

  • Francis Home
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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    [ « ] fome unufual appearances, there, had occur¬ red to me in this difeafe. He told me, afterwards, that the lungs were not in the lead inflamed; that he found, a little below the aperture of thc glottis3 a quantity of what appeared to him pure mat¬ ter i but had not obferved whether or not there was any membrane, nor whether the ramifications of the trachea were filled with the matter. This, however, mu ft certainly have been the cafe, as matter was actually found in the fuperior parts of the trachea^ as his lungs appeared or her wife found, and could not be the caufe of his death; and as he had the fame purulent fediment in his urine, which I had obferved in the former cafes, and which attends all colle&ions of matter, in whatever part of the body they are contained. To our purpofe, it is fuflich ent, that matter of a purulent kind, was found in the trachea, CASE VII. A Bookbinder’s child, four years old, in this town, was feized with a cough and quick
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