Sore throat : its nature, varieties, and treatment : including the use of the laryngoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by M. Prosser James.

  • James, Moses Prosser, 1836-1918.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Sore throat : its nature, varieties, and treatment : including the use of the laryngoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by M. Prosser James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    means of topical application^, tlie most generally useful^ and almost always sufficient^ is the throat probang^ con- sisting of a small piece of sponge attached to a whale- bone rod. Brushes of camel hair^ or glass, are more frequently employed. In strumous constitutions, relaxed sore throat will often be tedious and obstinate. Treatment of the diathesis is then not to be neglected. The iodide of iron suits both children and adults; change of air, and sea-baths, and the most powerful tonics ought sometimes to be combined. By attention to such things as these, the physician may prevent the relaxation becoming a habit, or even remove it when it has done so, thereby pre- serving his patient from serious danger, and confer- ring on him a lasting benefit. Bheumatic persons are very liable to this form of sore throat, which modifies the treatment again. The iodide of potassium is the best prescription for internal use. On the other hand, this drug occasionally seems to pro- duce a subacute cynanche. That it produces coryza is well known, and some persons are unable to take it for this reason. We need not be surprised, then, that its effect may sometimes fall on the other portion of the mucous membrane.