. The pathology of the membrane of the larynx and bronchia. on the sacculus laryngeus and 176 around it. The lungs we were not allowed toexamine. In the engraving (plate VIII.) the ulcerations,which were very superficial, are hid. Theengraving is intended to shew the thickeningand rigidity of the membrane lining theepiglottis and aretynoid cartilages. This patient, probably, did not die from anapoplectic stroke. With, her the obstructionto the respiration from the spasmodic stricture,occasioned by the general swelling and in-creased irritability of the parts, appears tohave been the cause of d
. The pathology of the membrane of the larynx and bronchia. on the sacculus laryngeus and 176 around it. The lungs we were not allowed toexamine. In the engraving (plate VIII.) the ulcerations,which were very superficial, are hid. Theengraving is intended to shew the thickeningand rigidity of the membrane lining theepiglottis and aretynoid cartilages. This patient, probably, did not die from anapoplectic stroke. With, her the obstructionto the respiration from the spasmodic stricture,occasioned by the general swelling and in-creased irritability of the parts, appears tohave been the cause of death. In short, shedied from strangulation. Had the stricturebeen removed while there was any remains ofmuscular power, she might have recovered;whereas, in case first, the obstruction was re-moved by the perforation of the larynx, with-out the slightest benefit to the patient. Thereis a third way in which I have seen the dis-ease terminate: the patient is gradually ex-hausted by the concomitant hectic. I am persuaded that similar cases are not PI ate V]. E MiichAlfuilf* 17? so rare as one might suppose, from meetingthem so seldom in the transactions of learnedbodies, and in medical journals. In my ownpractice, I have seen nine or ten cases ofthickened or ulcerated larjmx (not in con-sumptive patients), all of which terminatedfatally. I have the testimony of Morgagni,to prove that before his time sufficient atten-tion was not paid to diseases of the larynx. For,in the instance of a woman of Bologna, whodied suddenly during a fit of difficult breath-ing, to which she had been subject for sometime; Valsalva and he dissected both thoraxand abdomen, and the head, to discover thecause of her death, and found every thingsound ; yet they never thought of examiningthe larynx, although their attention might havebeen directed to this organ by the peculiarsound of the womans voice ; but it was no re-gular part of the demonstration to open thelarynx. However, it afterwards struck Mor-gagni
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