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Cases of Laryngotomy and Tracheotomy
the night previous to the attack, and that two of his co-villagers have died of the same disease within a month. At 9-3 A. M. laryngotomy was at once performed by Dr. Roy under chloroform, and the tube inserted. A gush of air and frothy mucus, surcharged with blood, came out with the first and subsequent efforts of expiration through the tube. The patient felt immediate relief after operation, ...
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who was suffering from motor paralysis of the lower extremities. The loss of power was not absolute, for the child could stand when supported by some one. The symptoms had been in existence for about a week, and had supervened gradually. First, unsteadiness and a liability to stumble readily, and, afterwards, progressive difficulty in locomotion, were observed. No paralysis, or paresis, of any ...
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Sympathetic and parasympathetic function and somatic nerve conduction were assessed in ten patients with diphtheritic neuropathy and 28 controls. None of the patients had postural hypotension. The Valsalva ratio was abnormal in two patients who also had myocarditis, but it was normal in five cases. Cardiac vagal dysfunction was found in five patients. One case showed cardiac parasympathetic den...
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perimental observers have regarded the nervous complications of diphtheria as the result of selective hematogenous toxaemia of the nervous system. Other hypotheses have also been put forward, e.g., Mendel attributed the palatal paralysis to the fact that the nerves of this structure were bathed in toxin from the neighbouring infectiye focus; Babonneix and others hold that the process is of the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1886
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm188607221150303