Croup
a term used in Scotland from of laryngeal symptoms, was first applied an early period to describe a certain train by Dr. Francis Home, in 1765, to an affection of the larynx, in which there is acute inflammatory and non-contagious the formation of a false membrane or of the windpipe. The invasion of the dis- fibrinous deposit on the mucous surface may be very insidious. If the patient is ease resembles that of simple catarrh, and not relieved by coughing or vomiting up some membranous shreds and glairy mucus, a state of greater dyspnea ensues.
A period of extreme restlessness and suffering is (unless relieved by im- ) death from increasing coma, syncope, or exhaustion. soon followed by atmosphere of low temperature, espe- Croup seems to be caused by a damp cially in exposed situations. It is most frequently met with between the years of two and ten, though all ages are liable to suffer from it. It is commoner in boys than girls.
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