On diseases of the throat, epiglottis, and windpipe : including diphtheria, nervous sore-throat, displacements of the cartilages, weakness of the voice and chest: their symptoms, progress, and treatment / By George D. Gibb.

  • Gibb, G. Duncan (George Duncan), Sir, 1821-1876.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On diseases of the throat, epiglottis, and windpipe : including diphtheria, nervous sore-throat, displacements of the cartilages, weakness of the voice and chest: their symptoms, progress, and treatment / By George D. Gibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    canal, is supplied by a large number of small glands and follicles, which are situated for the most part either beneath this membrane or else embedded in its submucous areolar tissue. Those in the pharynx are not only abundant but at the same time natu- rally large in many persons, and can oftentimes be seen projecting along the lining membrane at the back of the throat. These delicate follicular glands are subject to various diseased conditions, which result from chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane, such as hypertrophy and induration, which may be associated with an altered or total arrest of secretion, producing a dryness of the throat; or they may become the seat of a deposit of tuber- culous matter. The general enlargement of these follicles is what is first noticed; in Dr. Green's experience it is one of the earliest changes observed, and my own also fully testifies to the correctness of tins view. This enlargement is found to take place not only in the throat, but in the air-passages as well, and, as has been pointed out, is observable, amongst other situations, at the back of the tongue. One of the most marked examples in this latter situation I exhibited before the Pathological Society of London,* in April, 1859, wherein many of the papillae were fully the size of small peas, but not in a state of ulceration j they were, however, extremely indurated, although this is by no means a necessary accompaniment j indeed it is rarely witnessed in the * See vol. x, ' Transactions ' of the Society.