ABSCESS OF THE LARYNX IN INFANTS

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In view of their striking symptoms, the interesting diagnostic problem they afford, and the occasionally spectacular results of surgical intervention, we have assembled the following five examples of laryngeal abscess in infants, from personal experience at the Babies' Hospital and the Willard Parker Hospital.1 REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —Joseph M. was referred to the Babies' Hospital, March 31, 1923, at 3 months of age. The family history was unimportant. The patient weighed 8 pounds (3.6 Kg.) at birth, had been nursed two weeks, and then had been given a formula by a physician. He had not gained well, and had developed erysipelas of the scalp three weeks before admission, the course of which could not be clearly determined by questioning the parents. About five days before admission, the mother noticed that the baby "breathed with difficulty and could not take its feedings well." The following day she discovered

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