ACUTE LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS

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Our purpose in this paper is to present the differences among certain acute respiratory diseases of children based on the objective appearances of the mucosa of the larynx and the tracheobronchial tree. These appearances represent living pathologic changes. Therefore they are, we venture to think, of the utmost importance to the physician as bearing on the pathologic conditions of the airway which the physician is called on to diagnose and treat in the child battling for his life against these pathologic states. Mention will be made of the clinical features sufficient to associate these appearances with the diseases considered. NOMENCLATURE The term "fulminating, acute, infective, nonspecific laryngotracheobronchitis," however descriptive it may be, is certainly not brief nor is it otherwise suitable beyond criticism. The disease is certainly not diphtheritic but it remains to be proved that it is not primarily or secondarily specific. Except as to rash, the malady has

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