On diseases of the throat, epiglottis, and windpipe : including diphtheria, nervous sore-throat, displacements of the cartilages, weakness of the voice and chest their symptoms, progress, and treatment / by George D. Gibb.

  • Gibb, G. Duncan (George Duncan), Sir, 1821-1876.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On diseases of the throat, epiglottis, and windpipe : including diphtheria, nervous sore-throat, displacements of the cartilages, weakness of the voice and chest their symptoms, progress, and treatment / by George D. Gibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give rise to weakness of tlie chest and the voice are chiefly systemic, and may be set doAvn to a sluggish- ness or general torpor of the liver, M'ith habitual constipation; or again, to frequent and exhausting attacks of diarrhoea. The influence of great ex- tremes of heat and of cold also produce it, and it will remain persistent for years after a return to a more genial and temperate climate. The person affected complains of weakness and aching of the chest, with a dull pain under the lower part of the sternum, or behind its upper third. The breathing is slow and languid, and it is an effort in many in- stances to breathe at all; now and then it is followed by a long inspiration. Coincident is actual weak- ness of the voice, which can scarcely find its way out of the mouth, so to speak : it is in a low tone, and speaking produces great langour. A person thus affected is most disinclined to converse, and can scarcely describe the symptoms of his complaint. Perhaps the majority of these cases is observable in the young, who have among other causes indulged in pleasures of an essentially weakening and debili- tating character. Such patients have told me over and over again, that they felt such a weakness in their chest and in their voice. It will even continue beyond the age of puberty in such persons. Dis- eases of the lungs and heart, and the various tumours pressing upon the windpipe, necessai^ily produce their characteristic depression and weakness, but the condition I am describing is totally different, for no