CYNANCHE TRACHEALIS
\sˈa͡ɪnant͡ʃ tɹɐkˈiːliz], \sˈaɪnantʃ tɹɐkˈiːliz], \s_ˈaɪ_n_a_n_tʃ t_ɹ_ɐ_k_ˈiː_l_i_z]\
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A disease characterized by sonorous and suffocative breathing; harsh voices; cough, ringing, or like the barking of a dog; fever, highly inflammatory. It is apt to be speedily attended with the formation of a false membrane, which lines the trachea beneath the glottis, and occasions violent dyspnoea and suffocation, but is sometimes expectorated. The dyspnoea, as in all other affections of the air passages, has evident exacerbations. It differs in its character in different situations being infinitely more inflammatory in some places than in others, and hence the success obtained by different modes of treatment. It chiefly affects children, and is apt to recur, but the subsequent attacks are usually less and less severe. As general rule, it requires the most active treatment; bleeding from the arm or neck, so as to induce paleness; leeches applied to the neck, &c., according to the age, - the warm bath, olisters to the neck or chest, and purgatives. Formidable as the disease may be, if this plan be followed early, it will generally be successful. Many specifics have been recommended, but the search has been idle and fruitless. The majority of cases of what are called croup are not of this inflammatory east; but are more of spasmodic character, and have been termed by the French faux croups, and with us are occasionally termed spasmodic croup. They generally yield to an emetic and the warm bath.
By Robley Dunglison
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