Dissertations, On cynanche trachealis or croup, and On the functions of the extreme capillary vessels in health and disease : to which were awarded the Boylston premiums for the years 1820 and 1823 / by William Sweetser.

  • William Sweetser
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1823
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    mates, having a moist atmosphere, and which arc liable to great and sudden alterations. In our own it occurs most frequently in the spring and autumn, those seasons during which the weather is most variable. In the winter months it is less frequent, and we hardly ever witness it in the summer. Its exciting causes, therefore, appear to be the same as those which give rise to other iuflammatory diseases in organs above the diaphragm; as catarrh, pneumonia, &c. and it has been by some observed to occur most commonly when such diseases have been most prevalent. It was the belief of Dr Home, and many other physicians have since held to the same opinion, that this complaint was peculiar to maritime places ; there is abundant evidence, however, to show that it is also common in inland situations. It has likewise been stated to prevail most in the neighbourhood of large bodies of water, and near marshy grounds. In Cheyne's Essay we find the following note— This disease, we are informed by Dr Crawford, prevailed in the Carse of Gowrie, a plain in Perthshire, bounded by the river Tay ; but he adds, Haec planities vero nuper desiccata fuit, et varius occurritur morbus. The more frequent occurrence of this, as well as of other inflammatory affections in such situations, may be accounted for from the greater exposure to their exciting causes. Croup/in some instances, appears to follow as a consequence of certain other diseases, for which reason some have divided it into symptomatic and idiopathic. It will sometimes succeed to catarrh, cynanche tonsillaris, and cynanche maligna. Dr
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