On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker.

Date:
1866
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    water passing into a reservoir of warm at one aper- ture^ and the exit of tlie two commingled leaving it at another. Tlie two causes, therefore,—1st, the undeveloped character of the nares in children, from which, under exertion, they respire almost entirely through the mouth; and 2ndly, from the same con- dition of the larynx, the air reaches the trachea and primary bronchi almost unaltered; and hence the violent and deep-seated character of the inflamma- tion with the effusion of coagulable lymph. It is the usual observation of mothers, My child was out playing yesterday, as well as you are, or some similar remark. The disease is generally observed on the same night, and unless checked by early and vigorous treatment will often terminate fatally in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. A far more common disease than the above is the mucous or spurious crou]j of authors. The earliest symptoms in these cases are all referrible to the larynx, and should, from the prominent character of these, be termed the laryngitis of children. The disease, however, if not checked, extends rapidly into the trachea and bronchial tubes; and after this difiers in no way but in severity from true croup, in