Abstract of the Report of the Special Committee on Croup of the Illinois State Medical Society: With a List of Eighty-Three Cases of Tracheotomy, for ... in the State of Illinois (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Abstract of the Report of the Special Committee on Croup of the Illinois State Medical Society<br/><br/>The knowledge of the pathological anatomy of croup seems to have been obscure until 1576, when Baillon, of Paris, described the symptoms and anatomical char acters. As in many other cases in medical science in early, as well, indeed, as in later times, the observation attracted little attention. In the years 1583, 1587, 1591, 1596, and from 1600 to 1605 croup prevailed in epidemic form in Spain, and then extended to N ap'es and Sicily, and in 1613 it returned 'to Spain with such increased malignancy that the year was called cmo del garotillo, the year of strangulation. From this date we find Francesco Perez Cascalez noting the existence of the false membranes. Cristobal Perez Herrera also saw the false membranes upon the skin, and upon wounds, and found them in the throat, larynx, and trachea; and this feature be regarded as characteristic of the disease, which he looked upon as malignant, pestilential and contagious. In 1665 Miguel Heredia distinguished two forms of the disease, one in?ammatory and suffocating, the other asthenic, malig nant, without asphyxia, destroying the patient by prostration. The paralysis of the soft palate, the pharynx and the extremities did not escape him, and he believed in the general poisoning of the system by absorption of the morbid products.

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