Coughs and Their Cure
by E B Shuldham (9780217194006)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ACUTE COUGH OF WINDPIPE. Leaving the Cough of Croup, we will proceed next to speak of the cough which comes from a similar cause. Cold wind attacks a similar organ?the windpipe?but lights on adults for its victims more frequently than on children, and is unattended by the formation of false membrane. I refer to what is called, in professional language, Acute Laryngitis, and, in plain English, acute inflammation of the windpipe. Points of simi- Now, there are points of great similarity be- larity between acute laryngitis tween these two affections. I have already said and croup. J that the influence of cold is the chief one in bringing about this attack, and that the windpipe is the organ attacked; and I will further add that there is concomitant chill and feverishness in both cases, and also that the character of the cough is the same in both; only that, in the cough of croup, there is more distress of breathing, due to the formation of false membrane, and there is greater harshness and metallicity of tone, to coin aword, in croup. The patients attacked by acute inflammation of the windpipe are more often adults than children, though children are not absolutely exempt from this affection; for windpipes are not the peculiar and happy property of adults only, but are given also for children to possess; as one can readily be assured, by going to a playground soon after school has broken up. The influence of cold on the windpipe is also impartial, giving to a child croup; to an adult, laryngitis. Now catching the cold, that brings about laryngitis, may be accomplished in a variety of ways; as cold-catching generally is a delightfully varied process, both as to cause and results. " Where mayn't you catch a cold? " and "What Catching cold: its vari...

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