Inaugural dissertation on the pathology of the laryngismus stridulus / [Andrew James Scott].
- Scott, A. J. (Andrew James)
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Inaugural dissertation on the pathology of the laryngismus stridulus / [Andrew James Scott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![his time and since, by various writers, under a number of different appellations, most of them calculated to give a very erroneous idea of its nature. It has been denominated, for example, “ morbus strangulatorius,” * “ asthma suffocati- vum,”f “ a peculiar species of convulsion in infant children,” ^ “ cerebral croup,” § “ spasm of the glottis,”|| “ thymic asthma.”^] But these are a small part of the great variety of titles under which it is treated of by authors. Laryngismus Stridulus, which term was first given to it by Dr Mason Good, is the one we have adopted in preference to others, and it appears to be the least objectionable. In the following pages, we intend more particularly to turn our attention to the consideration of its Pathology, and to an examination of the different theories which have been brought forward in explanation of the phe¬ nomena it presents. But before doing so, it may be proper, in the first instance, to allude shortly to the more prominent symptoms and diagnostic signs by which it may be distinguished from croup and other diseases allied to it in appearance, although very different from it in reality. Dr Hugh Ley,** the latest and best authority, * Starr. t Burns. Hamilton. t Clark. 5 Pretty. J| Marsh. H Koppe, Montgomery, Hood, &c. Ley on the Laryngismus Stridulus, p. 10. * *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31924621_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
