Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only his uvula was rather redder and larger than natural. Third Variety.—The insidious form of diph- theria,—In the cases referrible to this head there is no severity in the general symptoms, no marked soreness of throat, no notable swelling of the lymphatic glands, but suddenly and, if the pharynx has not been examined, unexpectedly, laryngeal symptoms supervene, and death rapidly follows from suffocation. If the pharynx be not examined the disease is confounded with primary croup. A child, aged about six years, living in a villa near the Brecknock Arms, had suffered for some days from slight sore throat, but was not thought to be sufficiently ill to require medical advice, or even to be kept in the house, when the sudden occurrence of croupy breathing excited alarm. Mr. Baly, of Kentish Town, was called to the child. He found that the pharynx was covered with lymph, and that the larynx was deeply involved in the disease. About two p.m., within an hour of Mr. Baly's first visit I saw the child with him; the friends declined to allow tracheotomy to be performed; the same afternoon the child died. Ten days since I saw a similar case a few hours before death, with Mr. Noyce, of Brecknock