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WHOOPING-COUGH
by
Dr. H. Richardiere
(1893)
P.67
“It is difficult to fix the duration of whooping-cough. The various authors who have essayed to do so (Rilliet and Barthez, West, H. Roger) are unanimous in stating that uncomplicated whooping-cough has a duration wavering between one-and-a-half and two-and-a-half months. Cases of the disease lasting only a month are rare; those persisting for several months are not exceptional.”
“They constitute the true complications, imparting to whooping-cough its gravity and (in the majority of mortal cases) its fatal termination. These inflammatory complications are peculiarly liable to assail the respiratory apparatus, but they do not altogether spare the other organs, of which almost all are exposed to attack in different degrees;”
P.77
“Before proceeding to study the consequences of an inflammatory condition of the thoracic organs it is proper to say that sometimes, in the absence ‘of any appreciable complication, an intense whooping, cough causes death by the very difficulty of respiration and by disturbances of haematosis. The fatal termination is then due to progressive asphyxia, no lesion of the thoracic organs being produced”
P.80
“Generally speaking, broncho-pneumonia ensues as a complication in one-fifth the total number of whooping-cough cases of whatever intensity (Joffroy). In a review of 431 cases of whooping-cough, H.
Roger cites 68 cases of pneumonia and bronchopneumonia. Of these 68 cases, 51 resulted fatally.”
P.91
“Glottic spasm may produce rapid and almost sudden death, and to this accident are due almost all the cases of sudden death observed in whooping cough.”
P.94
“The convulsions are of extreme gravity in whooping-cough. When they accompany a pulmonary complication such as broncho-pneumonia, they inevitably end in early death. Supervening independently of
any complication, the prognosis still remains of the utmost gravity. Six times out of seven they cause death (Rilliet and Barthez). When they do not kill through spasm of the glottis, they kill by the cerebral
hyperemia, evident signs of which are revealed by autopsy.”
P.113
“We have seen that a quarter of all cases of whooping-cough are serious and terminate almost
uniformly in death. Furthermore, cases of mean intensity may result fatally in consequence of a complication. We may accordingly conclude that 35 to 40 percent, of the cases observed in hospital have a fatal termination; and this proportion is in accord with that of H. Roger, who found death to ensue in the ratio of 142 out of 423 cases observed in his department of the Hospital for Sick Children.”