The treatment of spasmodic croup with opium / by Arthur V. Meigs.

  • Meigs, Arthur Vincent, 1850-1912.
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[1889]
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Credit: The treatment of spasmodic croup with opium / by Arthur V. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from The Medical News, March 23, 1889.] THE TREATMENT OF SPASMODIC CROUP WITH OPIUM} By ARTHUR V. MEIGS, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO THE PENNSYLVANIA AND TO THE CHILDKEN’S HOSPITALS. By the term spasmodic croup I have meant to designate all forms of the disease characterized by the absence of false membrane, whether supposed to be simply spasmodic, inflammatory, or catarrhal, and my desire is to raise the question of what con- stitutes proper treatment, for the subject is one upon which my own views are very definite. Though the disease only in the rarest instances endangers life, and from that standpoint is not of much consequence, yet it is so very common and causes so much suffer- ing that by proper treatment can in most instances be so readily prevented or relieved, that it is well worthy of our careful attention and consideration. The method of treatment I have always pursued was for many years used by the late Dr. J. Forsyth Meigs, and is described in Meigs and Pepper on The Dis- eases of Children. It may be premised, in the first place, that in all severe cases the treatment must be begun by the ^ Read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Feb- ruary 27, 1889.