A collection of cases of diphtheria and croup / abstracted from the clinical and pathological records of the hospital by W.H. Lamb and communicated, with some observations, by C. Hilton Fagge.

  • Fagge, Charles Hilton, 1838-1883.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: A collection of cases of diphtheria and croup / abstracted from the clinical and pathological records of the hospital by W.H. Lamb and communicated, with some observations, by C. Hilton Fagge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from ‘ Guy’s Hospital Reports,’ Vol. XXII, for 1877.] A COLLECTION OE CASES OF DIPHTHERIA AND CROUP, ABSTRACTED FROM THE CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL BY . V W. H. LAMB, M.B., AND COMMUNICATED, WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS, BY C. HILTON EAGGE, M.D. At the present time, when medical men in this country are divided in opinion as to the question whether there is a mem¬ branous croup apart from diphtheria, and when a Committee of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society is endeavouring to supply an answer to this question, it has seemed to me that a summary of the experience of the hospital must be of some value. Accordingly, in the summer of 1876 I asked my then clinical assistant, Mr. Lamb, to collect from the volumes of Medical, Surgical, and Pathological Records, all the cases that he could find of croup or diphtheria or any other allied diseases, and these I now communicate, as they came to me, without selecting or excluding any. Being a member of the Committee already referred to, I feel myself debarred from offering any lengthy remarks, and from endeavouring to draw a final conclusion with regard to the point at issue. But I may express the opinion that, if there is a membranous croup which is not due to the diphtheritic contagion, its existence must be proved by the collection and comparison of large series of cases, rather than by