Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1).

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1805
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    inflammation. Similar instances of the absence of the common signs of disease after death, occur in other parts of the body. Where the cynanche tra- chealis has appeared in the high grade which has been last mentioned, it has been called spasmodic. Where the serous vessels of the trachea have been tinged with red blood, it has been considered as inflammatory. Where a liquid matter has been found in the trachea, it has been called humoral; and where a membrane has been seen adhering to the trachea, it has received from Dr. Michaelis the name of angina polyposa. But all these different issues of the cynanche trachealis are the effects of a difference only in its force, or in its duration : they all depend upon one remote, and one proxi- mate cause. In the forming state of this disease, which may be easily known by a hoarseness, and a slight de- gree of stertorous cough, a puke of antimonial wine, tartar emetic, ipecacuanha, or oxymel of squills, is for the most pail an immediate cure. To be effectual, it should operate four or five times. Happily children are seldom injured by a little excess in the operation of this class of medi- cines. I have prevented the formation of this dis- ease many hundred times, and frequently in my own family, by means of this remedy.