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Medical and Physiological Problems, by W. and D. Griffin (v. 1)
Medical and Physiological Problems by W and D Griffin - v. 1 Author:William Griffin Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than ... more »a million books for free. Excerpt: PROBLEM VIII. BV WILLIAM GRIFFIN, SI. D. IS LARYNGISMUS STRIDULUS, OR THE CROWING DISEASE, A SPASMODIC OR PARALYTIC AFFECTION? Before entering on the discussion proposed in the foregoing problem which has been suggested by the ingenious and clever work of the late Dr. Ley, it may be of use to give a sketch of the few casess of laryngismus stridulus which first attracted my attention to the subject. The complaint does not appear to be so remarkably rare of occurrence, as was imagined when it first came to be accurately described by medical writers. The cases I shall relate all happened within the last two years in my own practice, and the great majority of the profession who have written on the diseases of infants latterly, evince a familiar acquaintance with it . The fact that an affection, I might almost say so common, should have been completely overlooked by almost all the eminent men of past times is sufficiently mortifying, whether looked upon as illustrative of the difficulty of the diagnosis, or a general inaccuracy of observation. I shall first describe two cases in which the phenomena of the crowing disease formed but a minor or less important part of the whole affection. They are curious as illustrations of a complaint which I believe has not even yet been noticed by any medical writer, and which might, perhaps, to distinguish it from the crowing disease, be appropriately called the crowing apoplexy of infants. An infant of rather a spare and puny frame, although healthy looking in its counh nance, on the eleventh day after birth, was IS THE CROWING DISEASE A SPASMODIC AFF...« less