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{{anchor:s66}}§4. THE SEAT AND NATURE OF HOOPING COUGH. {{anchor:s67}}— Investigations and observations upon the <span grade2>seat</span> and the <span grade2>nature</span> of Hooping Cough, have, from the first appearance of the disease to our own day, given occupation to numerous physicians; and, as generally happens, each one of them has expressed an opinion of his own and given it out for the only correct one. | {{anchor:s66}}§4. THE SEAT AND NATURE OF HOOPING COUGH. {{anchor:s67}}— Investigations and observations upon the <span grade2>seat</span> and the <span grade2>nature</span> of Hooping Cough, have, from the first appearance of the disease to our own day, given occupation to numerous physicians; and, as generally happens, each one of them has expressed an opinion of his own and given it out for the only correct one. | ||
- | {{anchor:s68}}It will hardly be expected that all these views should here be cited and elucidated. {{anchor:s69}}We gladly relinquish to the <span grade2>learned pathologist</span> the task of pronouncing whether the <span grade2>nature</span> (and seat) of Hooping Cough is to be sought for in the <span grade2>irritation</span> produced by an insect (Rosentein, Linnaeus, Clesius), or in a <span grade2>hot exhalation</span> <span grade2>of the blood</span> (Sydenham), or in a peculiar miasm (Jahn, Bohme), or in the <span grade2>stomach</span> or <span grade2>intestinal</span> <span grade2>canal</span> (Dauz, Waldschmidt, Stoll), or in <span grade2>spasm</span> of the <span grade2>glottis</span> and of the <span grade2>diaphragm</span> (Gardien), or in the <span grade2>eighth pair of nerves</span> (Hufeland, Wendt), or - anywhere else. {{anchor:s70}}We content ourselves with stating, in all brevity and without intending to oppose any other opinion, that we ourselves incline, in preference, to the view of Dr. Whatt, who, after losing his own three children from Hooping Cough, came to the conclusion that this disease consists in an i <span grade2>nflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea and its ramifications</span> (Bronchitis [By reason of painful experiences in his own family, Dr. Whatt must, in this case, be regarded as just as good authority as the still more famous Sydenham, whose work on "Podagra" is still held in the highest esteem, <span grade2>because</span> he himself suffered from, and <span grade2>although</span> he himself <span grade2>died of</span>, that same disease.]). | + | {{anchor:s68}}It will hardly be expected that all these views should here be cited and elucidated. {{anchor:s69}}We gladly relinquish to the <span grade2>learned pathologist</span> the task of pronouncing whether the <span grade2>nature</span> (and seat) of Hooping Cough is to be sought for in the <span grade2>irritation</span> produced by an insect (Rosentein, Linnaeus, Clesius), or in a <span grade2>hot exhalation</span> <span grade2>of the blood</span> (Sydenham), or in a peculiar miasm (Jahn, Bohme), or in the <span grade2>stomach</span> or <span grade2>intestinal</span> <span grade2>canal</span> (Dauz, Waldschmidt, Stoll), or in <span grade2>spasm</span> of the <span grade2>glottis</span> and of the <span grade2>diaphragm</span> (Gardien), or in the <span grade2>eighth pair of nerves</span> (Hufeland, Wendt), or - anywhere else. {{anchor:s70}}We content ourselves with stating, in all brevity and without intending to oppose any other opinion, that we ourselves incline, in preference, to the view of Dr. Whatt, who, after losing his own three children from Hooping Cough, came to the conclusion that this disease consists in an <span grade2>inflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea and its ramifications</span> (Bronchitis [By reason of painful experiences in his own family, Dr. Whatt must, in this case, be regarded as just as good authority as the still more famous Sydenham, whose work on "Podagra" is still held in the highest esteem, <span grade2>because</span> he himself suffered from, and <span grade2>although</span> he himself <span grade2>died of</span>, that same disease.]). |
{{anchor:s71}}This opinion, which however should exert no immediate influence whatever upon the treatment of any concrete case, may receive some weight from the fact that the <span grade2>nerves</span> which appear to be especially active during the Hooping Cough-paroxysms and so act upon their various organs, - as, the eighth pair, the facial nerve, the vagus, and the accessory of Willis, the phrenic nerve and the thoracic nerve, are the same which are most affected by respiration. | {{anchor:s71}}This opinion, which however should exert no immediate influence whatever upon the treatment of any concrete case, may receive some weight from the fact that the <span grade2>nerves</span> which appear to be especially active during the Hooping Cough-paroxysms and so act upon their various organs, - as, the eighth pair, the facial nerve, the vagus, and the accessory of Willis, the phrenic nerve and the thoracic nerve, are the same which are most affected by respiration. |