The pathology of the membrane of the larynx and bronchia.

  • Cheyne, John, 1777-1836.
Date:
1809
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Credit: The pathology of the membrane of the larynx and bronchia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quently reflected on it since, and I have en- deavoured to explain it in the following statement. I. In the beginning of the winter of 1803, a fever prevailed, attended with catarrhal symptoms, of which two of my patients died on the tenth day. The symptoms in both cases were much alike : viz. rigors ; oppression and pain in the chest, not pungent; anxiety and incoherence; a quick soft pulse, after- wards small and irregular; tongue white, in- clining to grey; some headach; watching, hurried and wheezing respiration; pale and bloated countenance; profuse clammy sweats ; insensibility. A small quantity of blood, which was dark and without size or consistence, was drawn from one of these patients on the seventh day. Many other persons had the same disease favourably. One person had chilly fits for a month, another for a fortnight, with slight catarrhal symptoms, before they submitted to confinement. These patients were both bled, with apparent relief, in a day or two after their confinement to bed; not more than four or five ounces of blood were drawn, which resembled the blood which Huxham describes, as it appeared in some cases of the epidemic Peripneumony which occurred in the latter part of the year 1745 and the beoinnins of 1746 : The coat of the