Medical notes and essays / by Peter Eade.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Medical notes and essays / by Peter Eade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    examination of some pseudo-membrane ejected from the trachea of a patient who died of this disease. In 1861 Dr. W. Cooper, of Bury St. Edmunds, read to the Medical Society a valuable report of an epidemic which had recently occurred in his neighbourhood, com- prising eighty-one cases of the distinct disease, besides many others of (apparently) simple tonsillitis. And in 1874, Mr. Prangley of Aylsham, read before the Medical Section of the British Medical Association, then holding its annual meeting in Norwich, a striking and masterly analysis of fifty-six cases of this disease which had occurred in his practice in an epidemic form. An epitome of this paper was subsequently published in the journal of the Association. My own experience of diphtheria has been very con- siderable. On its first occurrence in this city, I was attaqhed as Physician to the Norwich Public Dispensary, and in this capacity I had the opportunity, in conjunction with the then resident surgeon, Mr. W. Woodhouse, both of seeing and watching numerous cases of the disease through their whole course, both of the acute illness and of the more chronic stages of the secondary paralysis. And in the subsequent years I have from time to time witnessed many urgent and remarkable examples of its varying phenomena.