Observations on the pathology of croup : with remarks on its treatment by topical medications / by Horace Green.

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1849
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    anatomique fondamental de cette affection. Sans ce produit nouveau, il n'y a pas de croup. * * * * Les fausses membranes sont exclusivement formees de fibrine.1 That form of the affection which has been termed Spasmodic Croup by some writers, is a variety of this malady, and not a distinct dis- ease. When children of a nervous temperament, or of weak and irritable habits, are exposed to the ordinary exciting causes of croup, and become the subjects of the disease, we then have the spasmodic variety of the affection ; or, in other words, the inflammation, under such circum- stances, is of a sub-acute character; the albumi- nous secretion is more tardily effused; but there is present, from the commencement of the disease, a great predominance of spasmodic and nervous symptoms. The stricture of the glottis which attends this form of the malady is spasm caused by inflammation, occurring in weak children of the above nervous temperament. This inflammation, Dr. Cheyne2 observes, is often spontaneously resolved, the spasm depend- ' Manuel Pratique des Maladies des Nouveaux-N6s, et des En. fants a la mamelle. Par M. Bouchut. Article, Croup. * Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine. Article, Croup.