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CROUP , a name formerly given to diseases characterized by See also:

DISTRESS

distress in breathing accompanied by a metallic cough and some hoarseness of speech. It is now known that these symptoms are often associated with See also:

DIPHTHERIA (from 8c4BEpa, a skin or membrane)

diphtheria (q.v.), spasmodic See also:

LARYNGITIS

laryngitis (q.v.), and a third disease, spasmodic croup, to which the See also:

TERM

term is now alone applied. This occurs most frequently in See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children above two years of See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age; the See also:

child goes to See also:

bed quite well, and a few See also:

HOURS, CANONICAL

hours later suddenly awakes with See also:

GREAT

great difficulty in See also:

INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration, the See also:

CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest See also:

wall becomes markedly retracted, and there is a metallic cough. The child becomes cyanosed, and, to the inexperienced See also:

NURSE (a shortened form of the earlier " nourice," adapted through the French from Lat. nutrix, nu/rite, to nourish)

nurse, seems in an almost moribund See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. In the course of four or five minutes, normal respiration starts again, and the attack is over for the See also:

time being; but it may recur several times a See also:

day. The seizure may be accompanied by See also:

CONVULSIONS

convulsions, and See also:

DEATH

death has occurred from dyspnoea. The best treatment is to plunge the child into a warm See also:

bath, and sponge the back and chest with See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

WATER

water. Subsequently this can be done two or three times a day. Should the cyanosis become very severe, respiration can be restarted by making the child sick, either with a dose of See also:

IPECACUANHA

ipecacuanha See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, or by forcing one's See also:

FINGER

finger down the See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat. Generally the bowels should be attended to; and the throat carefully examined for enlarged tonsils or See also:

ADENOIDS, or ADENOID GROWTHS (from Gr. Abevoetbi7s,glandular)

adenoids, which if See also:

PRESENT

present should be treated.

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