On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER IV. ACUTE CATARRH. SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, PROGNO- SIS, AND TREATMENT. In this form of disease the attack com- mences with the same series of symptoms that have been described as those of simple catarrli. But the point where simple catarrh, under fa- vourable circumstances for reparation, termi- nates, is that at which, under a persistence of the morbific influences, and a low condition of the recuperative powers, the attack advances to the more important step of acute catarrh. The profuse secretion from the mucous sur- faces of the air-passages, which always occurs at the onset of catarrhal irritation, continues but a very short time in this form of the affec- tion, speedily changing from true mucus, to a mixture of it with rolled up patches of sepa- rated epithelium, and the serous effusion from