A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander.

  • Alexander, Disney, 1769-1844
Date:
[1794]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    M3 ] . Children, while at the breaft, are not iinfrequently attacked with it; and I have known three or four inftances, in which it has feized infants at tlie early period of fix months after birth. Thofe of an unufually florid complexion and plethoric habit, and. who poflefs an activity and vivacity of tem- per .difproportionate to their years, are, mofl obnoxious to it. In cold and wet feafons, particularly iri the depth of winter and beginning of fpring, its attacks are niofl; prevalent. It is not, as Dr. Home conjedlured, local in re- fped: to its fituation, nor is it confined to low marfliy countries, but feems equally likely to be produced in any climate and at any feafon, in a cold moift atmofphere; particularly if fubjeded to fudden vicifTi-^ tudes of heat and cold. > • , If does riot appear to be infedlious ; but like moft other catarrhs, of which this is a fpecies, depends upon the ftate of the air, 'C and