On throat cough : its causes and treatment / by George Duncan Gibb.

  • Gibb, Sir George Duncan, 1821-1876.
Date:
1865
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    ON THROAT COUGH: ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. The title given to the present essay might be objected to as a somewhat anomalous one ; indeed, at first sight, it seems quite problematical how a cough could come from the throat; nevertheless as cough does occur hi both throat and laryngeal affections without any manifestation of actual disease in the chest, unless purely from sympathy, the expression of throat cough has been selected as a suitable one under such circum- stances, to distinguish it from any other cough proceeding from disease of the lungs or bronchial tubes. As the modified states of the pulmonary cough occurring in chest disease have been considered by writers on auscultation (especially |)r. Walshe) under the divisions of bronchial cough, caver- nous cough, and amphoric cough, so are we justified, it ap- pears to me, in speaking of tracheal cough, laryngeal, and epiglottic or throat cough, according to the seat of the disease more particularly giving rise to it. There is an excellent precedent for this, first established by myself, in relation to the great inconvenience of difficulty in swallowing, known as dysphagia, which, in my writings, has been divided according to its situation and the condition which produces it.* And this is in reality a matter of great importance in estimating our diagnosis, oftentimes in affections of the utmost moment, when the prognosis is waited for with the greatest anxiety. It is hoped, therefore, that henceforth throat cough will be * See the second edition of my work, On Diseases of the Throat,— chapter on Dysphagia.