MEMBRANOUS RHINITIS. (NON-DIPHTHERITIC.)

Non-Allergic Rhinitis

Autonomic dysfunction in diphtheritic neuropathy.

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...

The Pathogenesis of Diphtheritic Paralysis

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 ...

Fulminant diphtheritic mitral valve endocarditis.

Fulminant endocarditis affecting the mitral valve in an 11-year-old boy was caused by a nontoxogenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

Physiological Disturbances during Experimental Diphtheritic Intoxication

In the first paper of this series (12) it was pointed out that during diphtheritic intoxication in rabbits there was evidence of liver disturbance, manifested by a marked rise in the amino-acid nitrogen which in the more severe intoxications was accompanied by a hypoglycemia. When smaller doses of toxin were injected the amino-acid nitrogen changed but little, while the blood sugar remained rel...