Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / Translated from the Greek by T.F. Reynolds.

  • Aretaeus, of Cappadocia
Date:
1837
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Credit: Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / Translated from the Greek by T.F. Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIL ON CYNANCHE, CirNANche is a very severe disease, for it is attended with a stifling of the breath. It exists under two forms, either as an inflammation of the respiratory organs; or merely as an affection of the breath, which contains within itself the source of the disease. These organs are the tonsils, epiglottis, pharynx, uvula, and top of the wind-pipe; if the inflammation spread, it involves the tongue and inside of the jaws, and the former becomes from its great size pushed over the teeth as it quite fills the cavity of the mouth, and its excess projects beyond ; it is called Cynanche, (Dogchoke), either from these animals being liable to the disorder, or from their habit of protruding the tongue even in a state of health. In the other form quite opposite symptoms appear; the organs become collapsed, with a greater attenua- tion of each part than is natural, and the sense of stifling is so violent that it seems to the patient as if the inflammation were secretly concealed in his chest in the vicinity of the heart and lungs. This is called Synanche (internal choke), from its being placed internally and causing suffocation there; my opinion