Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . rst. Almost every particle attemptedto be swallowed is regurgitated with violence, sometimes pass-ing into the larynx, sometimes into the nostrils, sometimes inboth directions at once, producing intense spasmodic parox- TUBERCULOUS LARYNGITIS. 507 ysms of cough, dyspnoea, and painful stridor, so that the pangsof hunger and of thirst will be endured as long as possible be-fore temporary alleviation is again purchased at the expenseof a repetition
Diseases of the throat and nasal passages; a guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, sophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares . rst. Almost every particle attemptedto be swallowed is regurgitated with violence, sometimes pass-ing into the larynx, sometimes into the nostrils, sometimes inboth directions at once, producing intense spasmodic parox- TUBERCULOUS LARYNGITIS. 507 ysms of cough, dyspnoea, and painful stridor, so that the pangsof hunger and of thirst will be endured as long as possible be-fore temporary alleviation is again purchased at the expenseof a repetition of the dreaded paroxysms. The distress is sointense that the often too tardy approach of inevitable deathis awaited with bitter satisfaction, and, if consciousness re-mains to the last, it is with a sigh of relief that the patientexpires. After the larynx is in this ulcerated and swollen condition,but little can be seen of its interior in many instances (, 121); and the enlarged area of the arytenoid and supra-arytenoid regions, the cartilages of which are probably under-going caries, necrosis, or exfoliation, the swollen folds forming.
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