Volume 1

An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home].

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inquiry into the nature, cause, and cure of the croup ... / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or peripneumoniae diftempers. Thefe feem to be fufficient reafons for its being fo long undiftinguifhed and undeferibed, without laying us under any neceffity of looking on it as a new difeafe. Probably it has exifted m.ore or lefs in all ages; for the fame pro¬ ductive caufes mult have operated formerly, as they do at prefent. This difeafe happens, or at leaft is ob- ferved, fo feldom in this city, that very few cafes mult occur to any particular perfon, during the courfe of a whole lifetime. To have the power of feeing more, one muft put himfelf in the way of intelligence, efpecially at places fituated on the coaft* By that means, I have had an opportunity of attending more cafes, than otherwife would have fallen to the {hare of any one. The danger of the fymptoms under fuch apparent cafe, and the Angularity of its appearances after death, in the firft examination, excited my curioflty* The fubfequent cafes were fufficient to fhow me its nature, tho’ perhaps not to point out a certain cure. That is not always allowed to mortals To be able, however, to diftim