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Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough; including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined, an enquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / [Robert Watt].

  • Watt, Robert, 1774-1819.
Date:
1813
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough; including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined, an enquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / [Robert Watt]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘THE HISTORY _ OF CHINCOUGH. THE NAME. Tus disease has been known by a great variety of names. In Britain it has been promiscuous- ly denominated the Hooping cough, the Kink- cough, and the Chincough. ‘The first of these terms, I believe, is the one most generally em- ployed, though perhaps, the most exceptionable of the three. It has been termed Hooping cough, because the patient, during the fit of coughing, produces a peculiar sound, or what has been denominated a hoop, in drawing in his breath. But this sound, though remarkable enough in some cases, is to- tally wanting in others; and therefore, a name C