 This name has been given to an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it affect the membranes of these parts, or the muscles adjoining. It may arise first in these parts, and continue to subsist in them alone; or it...  First Lines of the Practice of Physic - Page 200by William Cullen - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 416 pages
...difeafe we have in Dr Cullen's Practice of Phyiic. He informs us, that it confjll* in an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it айеД the membianes of thefe parts or the mufcles adjoining. It may arife firft in thefe parts,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 748 pages
...allegati. i»4. Defcriptioa. Or Cullen thus defcribes this t;feafe. It confifls in an inflammmation of the larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it affect the membranes of thefe parts <* tie mufcles adjoining. It may arife firft in tWe parts, and continue to fublilt in them... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...disease we have in Dr Cullen's Practice of Physic. He informs us, that it consists in an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea,...alone ; or it may come to affect these parts from the cynaucbe tonsillaris, or maligna, spreading into them. In cither way it has been a rare occurrence,... | |
 | Leoonard W. Sedgwick,M.D.,Edited By. - 1872 - 290 pages
...inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea. " It may first arise," he says, " in these parts and continue to subsist in them alone,...from the cynanche tonsillaris or maligna spreading into them." The last sentence seems to me to point to diphtheria, which, as is now well known, appears... | |
 | Robert Hunter Semple - Diphtheria - 1879 - 120 pages
...the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea. ' It may first arise,' he says, ' in these purts and continue to subsist in them alone, or it may come to affect these parts from the cynancJie tonsillaris or maliyna spreading into them.'* The last sentence seems to me to point to Diphtheria,... | |
 | New Hampshire. State Department of Health - New Hampshire - 1893 - 312 pages
...William Cullen calls this disease " Cynanche Trachealis." "This name has been given to an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea,...from the cynanche tonsillaris or maligna spreading into them. In either way it has been a rare occurrence, and few instances of it have been marked and... | |
 | New Hampshire - New Hampshire - 1893 - 1134 pages
...William Cullen calls this disease " Cynanche Trarhealis." "This name has been given to an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea,...may come to affect these parts, from the cynanche tonsillaria or maligna spreading into them. In either way it has been a rare occurrence, and few instances... | |
 | Medicine - 1812 - 570 pages
...respiration. Croup, .according to the definition given of it by Dr. Cullen, consists " in an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it affects the membranes of these parts or the muscles adjoining." In one particular this definition is... | |
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