Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea, chiefly with a view to illustrate the affections of those organs which may require the operation of bronchotomy. Including remarks on croup, cynanche laryngea, foreign bodies in the windpipe, wounds, &c. &c / [William Henry Porter].

  • Porter, William Henry, 1790-1861.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the surgical pathology of the larynx and trachea, chiefly with a view to illustrate the affections of those organs which may require the operation of bronchotomy. Including remarks on croup, cynanche laryngea, foreign bodies in the windpipe, wounds, &c. &c / [William Henry Porter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $1 atmosphere should exist in order to the produe- tion of croup, forit is occasionally met with during the warmest and finest seasons. ‘There seems also something like a pre-disposition to the dis- ease in particular families, many individuals of which shall be successively attacked by it, whilst other children placed under exactly the same circumstances with respect to local influences, diet, clothing, and general management, shall escape completely free. Individuals also appear occasionally to possess a similar disposition, for we see one child in a family to suffer five or six times from croupy affections, and not one of the others ever exhibit a single symptom. There are still others in whom this disposition exists so strongly, that any slight exposure to cold pro- duces croupy breathing and cough; but in ge- neral these attacks are not very dangerous, as each successive affection seems milder and more _ manageable than the preceding. As croup is generally an affection purely of an inflammatory nature, any cause capable of exciting this diseased action will be sufficient to produce it. Thus, indifferent clothing, un- wholesome food, and want of general care, may be considered as its remote or pre-disposing causes ; whilst its immediate will be found in occasional exposure, injudicious change of dress, mechanical injury or irritation, or any other of those circumstances found to produce inflam- mation in other structures. It is very question-