LARYNGITIS

is inflammation of the larynx. The chief causes are catarrh due to cold, diphtheria, tuberculosis and syphilis. The symptoms are huskine or lo of voice, dry cough end some difficulty in breathing, which may at intervals be very great. The treatment to give the inflamed organ rest by avoiding speaking above a — The air breathed should be moist a warm, and flannels should be applied to the throat. When the laryngitis is part of a genera) disease, e.g. diphtheria, the treatment will be directed mainly to the latter. [s. 381]