A case of peculiar crowing inspiration in a new-born child / by Hugh Miller.
- Miller, Hugh, active 1881.
- Date:
- [1877?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A case of peculiar crowing inspiration in a new-born child / by Hugh Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![[From the British Medical Journal, Nov. tjt/i, 1877.] A CASE OF PECULIAR CROWING INSPIRATION IN A NEW-BORN CHILD* By HUGH MILLER, M.D., Physician-Accoucheur to the Glasgow Maternity Hospital. Before I relate the case which forms the more immediate object of this paper, allow me to give you a few particulars bearing upon it, which the family history reveals. The lady—the mother of the child— had not been in good health for years. While a young lady, her family physician ordered her to the Mediterranean, and during her stay there she married, and afterwards gave birth to the two eldest of her children. The firstborn was a female, who lived two years and died of dysentery. The second child, born soon after this first one's death, was a son, and he died in his third year from scarlet fever. After an interval of three years, she gave birth to her third child, a female. She was the first of her family born in this country, and she exhibited from birth a peculiar crowing while breathing. The mother describes it as a catching of the breath, and she beheves it originated in consequence of the exhaustion she suffered from through nursing the second child during his last illness. This third child lived only a few hours. Again, after an interval of about three years, another female child was born. This one had the peculiar crowing during each inspiratory effort; she lived twenty-four hours, and during that time every attempt was made to establish an easier state of breathing, but without success. About ten months after the event, my patient had a miscarriage Towards the end of 1876, the lady herself, for the first time, came under my care. Her statement to me was that she had suffered from rheumatism, with occasional neuralgic attacks, and that she had habit- ual indigestion. I found her suffering from the gastric sympathetic irritation of pregnancy, and from abdominal pains over the region of the womb and bladder, which were due either to her rheumatic con- dition or to previous inflammatory adhesions existing around the uterus It was rare for her to take any food without feeling acidity in her stomach. The urine was normal, but the bladder was irritable : and this condition became so aggravated while in the erect position, that she was obliged to remain in bed during the last five months of her gestation. Altogether, she felt and loaked in very poor health various remedies were employed to meet the disordered conditions iust described, with only panial benefit. When her pregnancy had ad- vanced seven months, she suffered from the symptoms of a miscarriage, ™2f£&& fftSS^K^iSXr the Me«^ °f *• British](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21457608_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
