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| - | {{anchor:s51}}An elaborate picture of Hooping Cough, completely finished even to the finest shadings, will hardly be expected in a work like the present. {{anchor:s52}}Such a picture would be superfluous, for the reason that everyone who may resort to these pages for connsel, will already have learned to recognize this cough, which occurs, alas, only too frequently; or if, by good fortune, he has not yet had an opportunity of learning to know it, he can easily do so, through the symptoms, which are herein presented in great abundance and in a form which admits of easy reference. {{anchor:s53}}On the other hand, a complete description would require an expansion of the work which would be out of place and would cause it, through diffuseness, to lose in comprehensibility and in facility for reference. {{anchor:s54}}Our purpose, then, will be sufficiently attained by a detail of the following principal features of the affection. | + | {{anchor:s51}}An elaborate picture of Hooping Cough, completely finished even to the finest shadings, will hardly be expected in a work like the present. {{anchor:s52}}Such a picture would be superfluous, for the reason that everyone who may resort to these pages for counsel, will already have learned to recognize this cough, which occurs, alas, only too frequently; or if, by good fortune, he has not yet had an opportunity of learning to know it, he can easily do so, through the symptoms, which are herein presented in great abundance and in a form which admits of easy reference. {{anchor:s53}}On the other hand, a complete description would require an expansion of the work which would be out of place and would cause it, through diffuseness, to lose in comprehensibility and in facility for reference. {{anchor:s54}}Our purpose, then, will be sufficiently attained by a detail of the following principal features of the affection. |
| {{anchor:s55}}The true peculiarity of Hooping Cough, and which distinguishes it most definitely from all other varieties of cough, consists in the following, viz.: the cough appears in <span grade2>paroxysms,</span> which last a longer or shorter time, <span grade2>are distinct from each other</span> and independent, and <span grade2>are repeated</span>, more or less frequently, by day as well as at night. {{anchor:s56}}During these paroxysms of cough, the individual coughs follow each other more or less quickly in a spasmodic manner and cease, only to admit of long and deep <span grade2>inspirations</span> which are laboriously effected and are accompanied by <span grade2>various</span> but, generally, <span grade2>peculiar tones</span>, whereupon the cough is resumed in a similar manner until the paroxysm is entirely at an end. {{anchor:s57}}After each such paroxysm there follows a longer or shorter <span grade2>pause</span>, during which, especially in the beginning of the disease, the patient recovers himself and a period of relative health ensues which endures until the next paroxysm. {{anchor:s58}}Only when the malady has already lasted weeks and months does a higher degree of ill-health ensue, in consequence of the repeated paroxysms; the patients, then, no longer enjoy the benefit of recovering their vigor during the pauses between the paroxysms of cough; the entire organism is sympathetically affected; the patient keeps growing sicker, weaker and more wretched; and either he passes away during a paroxysm or else the seed of one of the various, but for the most part, malignant diseases is deposited which often fatally undermine health and life. | {{anchor:s55}}The true peculiarity of Hooping Cough, and which distinguishes it most definitely from all other varieties of cough, consists in the following, viz.: the cough appears in <span grade2>paroxysms,</span> which last a longer or shorter time, <span grade2>are distinct from each other</span> and independent, and <span grade2>are repeated</span>, more or less frequently, by day as well as at night. {{anchor:s56}}During these paroxysms of cough, the individual coughs follow each other more or less quickly in a spasmodic manner and cease, only to admit of long and deep <span grade2>inspirations</span> which are laboriously effected and are accompanied by <span grade2>various</span> but, generally, <span grade2>peculiar tones</span>, whereupon the cough is resumed in a similar manner until the paroxysm is entirely at an end. {{anchor:s57}}After each such paroxysm there follows a longer or shorter <span grade2>pause</span>, during which, especially in the beginning of the disease, the patient recovers himself and a period of relative health ensues which endures until the next paroxysm. {{anchor:s58}}Only when the malady has already lasted weeks and months does a higher degree of ill-health ensue, in consequence of the repeated paroxysms; the patients, then, no longer enjoy the benefit of recovering their vigor during the pauses between the paroxysms of cough; the entire organism is sympathetically affected; the patient keeps growing sicker, weaker and more wretched; and either he passes away during a paroxysm or else the seed of one of the various, but for the most part, malignant diseases is deposited which often fatally undermine health and life. | ||
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