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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    LECTUEE II. —♦— Gentlemen, In a certain proportion of cases after the termination of the diphtheria, symptoms of a very remarkable kind occur, referrible to de- ranged innervation. There can be no doubt that the latter are the consequence of the former— that the patient would not be suffering from the nervous symptoms if he had not just had diphtheria. I will briefly describe the various kinds of deranged innervation consequent on diphtheria, which have fallen under my observation during the present epidemic. I mentioned, you will remember, in my last lecture, the case of Dr. E., who suffered from the active inflammatory form of diphtheria, accompanied by the exudation of wash-leather-like lymph. On recovering from the diphtheria, he was annoyed to find that his voice was singularly snuffling—he talked through his nose, as it is called. He wras troubled very