Tracheotomy in laryngeal diphtheria (membranous croup) : with especial reference to after-treatment to which are added a few general remarks on diphtheria, and its earlier treatment / by Robert William Parker.

  • Parker, Robert William, -1913.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Tracheotomy in laryngeal diphtheria (membranous croup) : with especial reference to after-treatment to which are added a few general remarks on diphtheria, and its earlier treatment / by Robert William Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The primary objects of this little book are two :—i. To advocate the utility and importance of local treatment in cases of laryngeal diphtheria (membranous croup) ; and 2. To give, for the use of house surgeons and prac- titioners, short but detailed instructions as to how this may be practically accomplished. I am emboldened to publish it by the favourable reception which a paper of mine on the same subject received from the Fellows of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in the early part of last Session, and which will be found in the last volume of the Transac- tions published by the Society. This book is to be regarded as an enlarged edition of that paper, and as containing details, which, though useful in practice, were not exactly adapted for reading before a learned Society. I would take this opportunity of thanking the Council for their kind permission to me to use for this book some of the woodcuts which illustrate the paper just referred to. The recent discussion on Tracheotomy in Croup at Cork, at the Meeting of the British Medical Association, still further impressed me with the belief that my book will fill an acknowledged want in our medical literature, and that it will be acceptable to those for whom it is written. It is perhaps not a little remarkable that none of our