Clinical notes on diseases of the larynx ... / by William Marcet.

  • Marcet, W. (William), 1828-1900.
Date:
1869
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    much improved. Scarifications were repeated. Is in- creasing in weight (8 st. 8i lbs.) but not in strength. Temperature in mouth, 99 6. January 80th.—Epiglottis becoming very hard, as ascertained in the act of puncturing it; has been wear- ing, according to my advice, a charcoal respirator, which he finds to relieve the cough very much. Is rubbing his neck freely with a solution of 20 grains of iodine in an ounce of olive oil. February 2nd.—Epiglottis punctured in three dif- ferent places with the scarifier, but little blood can be obtained. February 10th.—Scarification repeated ; epiglottis becoming paler and harder. February 15th.—Epiglottis was again scarified. De- glutition fair, though performed with a little trouble, and he thinks it is perhaps not quite so easy. Condition of the chest much the same, but has increased in weight by two pounds (Bst. 9ilbs.) since first attended. Pulse, 104 ; temperature in mouth, 99° 1. A mixture con- taining iron to be taken instead of the iodide of potas- sium. February 19th.—Weighs 8 st. 10 lbs. ; the epiglottis becoming paler and harder ; very little blood to be obtained by scarification. Swallowing much the same; pulse, 118. April 10th.—Has been an in-patient in the Victoria Park Hospital, which he left but three days ago. The softening and formation of cavities has been going on in the lungs; the left side of the chest, which had been dull, now emits a metallic sound on percussion. With the Laryngoscope the epiglottis is seen to have altered in shape, being now contracted, contorted, or twisted, and otherwise out of shape, without, however, exhibit- I