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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...hot applications to the throat, and the inhalation of moist, warm air generated in the sick-room. The patient's strength should be carefully husbanded by frequent doses of liquid nourishment, and the avoidance of unnecessary excitement, exposure, and, most of all, strong emetics, the abuse of which has cost many a child's life. In most cases the membrane will get detached piecemeal, or will come away in one or more large masses, and relief will follow, perhaps only to be succeeded by another or several suffocative attacks. As long as there is no lung complication, the pulse fairly good, intubation offers fair chances of success. Where the patient's strength has been consumed by a very long, ceaseless struggle for air, or the depressing use of emetics, the chances are by far more slender. Yet even the most desperate cases sometimes yield unexpectedly good results. When intubation is not feasible, tracheotomy has to be performed. Preventive Treatment of Tonsillitis.--The tonsils are the points where the first patches become visible in most eases, and whence the local infection extends to other contiguous parts. After frequent attacks of tonsillitis, the surface of the tonsils becomes irregularly indented by cicatricial retraction; the tonsil itself is enlarged, and often yields on pressure one or more se'a position id dependent from the edge of the operating table. yellowish plugs of a very fetid cheesy matter which were contained within the follicles. Note.--Drs. E. Gruening and S. Cohn called my attention to this fact, which I have repeatedly verified. These yellowish masses are, as shown by Gruening, swarming with leptothrix and other micro-organisms, and the presence of these is undoubtedly at the bottom of the so-called disposition' to catch the di...

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