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QUINSY, OR SORE THROAT.
nation with quinine. The diet should consist chiefly
of farina, tapioca, &c.
Your great dependence will be upon local applica-
tions. A distinguished author asserts, that he has
found nothing so useful as a solution of sulphate of zinc,
say fifteen grains to the fluid. ounce of water, applied
three or four times a day, by touching the ulcer with a
camel's hair pencil. I have no doubt but this is a valu-
able remedy; and in this disease I can, with the same
confidence, recommend the tincture of iodine and cate-
chu, applied in the same manner.
CYNANCHE TONSILLARIS.
Quinsy.-I shall describe the disease under the name
of tonsillitis, believing that to be the proper name for the
disease. It is very common, and attended always with
danger. It is true the tonsils are not only inflamed, but
the surrounding parts are most generally affected. It
prevails in this climate mostly in winter; I have seen
some few cases in the spring. The inflammation some-
times involves only one gland, but most frequently both.
It is very acute, and easily known by the rapid swelling
of the tonsils, great pain in the glands, difficult respira-
tion and degluttion, and I have seen the inflammation
extend throughout the whole of the mucous membrane,
to such an extent as to essentially interrupt the speech.
When the inflammation is so extensive you will find the
uvula (or what is vulgarly termed the palate of the
mouth,) much elongated and considerably swollen. It
is always accompanied with more or less acceleration of
the pulse, with general symptomatic fever.
In some few cases you will find, in addition to the356
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/356/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.