Retro-Pharyngeal Abscess in an Infant
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This disease is one peculiarly liable to occur in the period of infancy and childhood, inasmuch as by far the larger proportion of recorded cases have been observed at an early period of life. Of a number of cases recorded by Dr Allin, fully one-half were under ten years.1 The symptoms and general course of the disease, as well as its etiology, have been fully described and are familiar to all practitioners. The object of the present communication is to relate a case, that of an infant five weeks old, the subject of this disease, and whose death was caused in a sudden and unexpected manner from a cause rarely if ever met with in such cases. In looking over the literature of the subject I have been unable to find any record of death occurring in the manner to be
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