Observations on croup or hives : addressed in a letter to A. R. Delile ... / by David Hosack.
- David Hosack
- Date:
- 1811
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Credit: Observations on croup or hives : addressed in a letter to A. R. Delile ... / by David Hosack. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![by the use of bark and yeast, which were afterwards ad- ministered, both internally and as a gargle, completely re- stored. In Mr. Cheyne's treatise before referred to, a case of scarlet fever is recorded which proved fatal, in which the membrane was actually formed as in croup, and was removed after death by Doctor Rollo, surgeon of the Woolwich hospital.* In some instances, especially where ulcerations take place in the larynx, croup also succeeds to measles.] In a case related by Dr. Cheyne, it also succeeded to the secon- dary fever of small pox j and by Dr. Underwood it has been known as the attendant upon the putrid thrush.\. Croup also, says Dr. Cheyne, very often supersedes a com- mon catarrhal affection. In a singular instance, Dr. Fer- riar also observes, that he has seen pneumonic inflam- mation converted into a croup on the tenth day of the disease.§ Dr. Rush remarks, I have seen it accompany as well as succeed the small pox, measles, scarlet fever, and apthous sore-throat. In the late Dr. Foulke it suc- ceeded acute rheumatism. The late Dr. Sayre informed me he had seen it occur in a case of yellow fever in the yearl798.^T With these facts before us, therefore, there appears to be just ground for dividing this disease into two species : -viz. idiopathic and symptomatic croup : idiopathic where the disease is primarily and exclusively seated in the trachea, * See Cheyne, p. 37. i Ibid. p. 39. * See Diseases of Children, 4th edit. vol. 1. p. 332. § Med. Hist, and Reflec vol. 3. p. 205- fl Med. Incj. and Obs. vol 2. p. *76. 3d edit,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21130504_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
