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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    solitary glands, excepting in the mass of follicles entering into the formation of the tonsils, which is considered in another part of this work. As a result of disease of the follicles of the throat, their secretion may be increased in quantity, but completely vitiated in its character, becoming an acrid, viscid discharge, firmly adherent to the mem- brane, and a source of great irritation; or it may become arrested, and the membrane be very dry and uncomfortable. More rarely an exudation of blood is poured out, which will cause great alarm, both to the patient and his medical attendant, if not well looked into. Such cases are noticed by several writers. But by far one of the most important con- sequences is ulceration of these glands, the result of long-continued irritation following chronic inflam- mation. This state of throat-disease in the larynx is considered in the next chapter, and perhaps is the most important with which we have to deal. As the seat of this malady is located in the fauces and upper part of the respiratory apparatus, the expressive appellation of follicular disease of the pharyngo-lartjngeal membrane, as chosen by Dr. Green, is exceedingly appropriate and convenient, and it is adopted here because the essence of the disease consists, as has been pointed out, in a morbid action in the glandular follicles of the mucous mem- brane of these parts, and commences primarily in those situated in the fauces and pharynx, extending in many cases to the larynx and trachea, and even to