Lectures on syphilis of the larynx : Lesions of the secondary and intermediate stages / by W. Mac Neill Whistler.

  • William McNeill Whistler
Date:
1879
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Credit: Lectures on syphilis of the larynx : Lesions of the secondary and intermediate stages / by W. Mac Neill Whistler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    face. Slie was put upon a mercurial treatment, but tlie case was lost sight of after a fortnigiit. Case 5.—Hypertropliic, or papillary mucous patch on the front of the left arytcenoid in the earliest stage of the disease. J. B., a servant-girl, aged twenty-tkree, applied Eebrnary 17, 1875. She said she had never noticed any chancre, and did not know when she contracted the disease. She had had a sore throat for one month. She com- plained of headaches. Her, hair was falling, and she suffered much from night-sweats. She had a squamous eruption on the chin, papular and papulo-squamous syphi- lides on the neck, chest, and back. There were the remains of a roseola on the sides; papular syphiHdes covering the thighs and legs, and mucous patches of the vulva. There was indolent enlargement of the inguinal glands, and also of the posterior cervical chain. She had mucous patches on the lips and on the right tonsil. The laryngo- scope showed the foUowuig condition:—A general slight dusky redness of the whole larynx, exce]3ting the vocal cords, which were quite white. This redness was not diifuse. It was especially marked on the epiglottis^ on the ventricular bands, and over the aryteenoids. There was sweUing of the ventricular bands and of the arytsenoids, especially the right one. At this examination the appearances in the larynx did not differ from those of an ordinary catarrh. If I had never seen this case again I might have added it to the list of those where,