On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff.

Date:
1851
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Credit: On diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat, and their treatment by topical medication / by William R. Wagstaff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    crowded room. Continuing in a poorly venti- lated room filled with people, often lighted with many candles or gas-burners, the tem- perature becoming heated and the air deprived of its vitalizing property, produces a combina- tion of circumstances the best suited to deprive the system, and especially the respiratory appa- ratus, of its power to resist the morbific influ- ence of a sudden exposure to a cold and damp atmosphere. Yet a course of life is pursued by many which subjects them almost daily to this heavy tax upon their vital energies. A simple cold recurring frequently, then at shorter intervals and produced by slighter causes, then chronic catarrh, and subsequently permanent disease of the lungs, are the gradual steps in the cate- gory of effects which may result from inattention to appropriate preventive or remedial measures. Prognosis.—The terminations of this disease are resolution of the irritation, inflammation, or chronic catarrh. Of these the most desirable is, of course, resolution; and this is by far the most frequent termination, therefore the pro- gnosis is usually favourable. Yet great care is