A Paper on Diphtheria

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Excerpt from A Paper on Diphtheria: Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, January, 1861Usually, even in slight cases, the local symptoms are preceded by some constitutional disturbance. There is a feeling of malaise, pain in the head, often extending to the neck, lassitude, and more or less fever. In the mild form the tongue presents a thick creamy coat, through which a few papillae are visible, the uvula, the velum-palati, and pharynx are of a bright red color, and the tonsils swollen, and Specked with the filmy deposit already described, which is generally closely adherent to the mucous membrane, although in some cases it is easily removed in its early stages by the application of the sponge probang, which is often coated with the new-formed deposits.This membranous exudation may extend over the whole palate, but in mild cases rarely does, nor is its color much deepened, or the odor emitted Offensive or foetid. The submaxillary glands are slightly swollen, but do not attain the size which they acquire in the severer forms of the disease. Under favorable circumstances, or the applica tion of judicious treatment, its progress is here arrested. The mem brane ceases to spread, and slowly becomes detached from its connec tions, the mucous membrane loses its red color, the glandular swell ings subside, the pulse diminishes in frequency, and the patient becomes decidedly convalescent.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.