PHARYNGITIS. SORE THROAT. 



Causes. Symptoms, larynx insensible, tender parotid and sub-maxillary 

 swelling, cough mucous, difficult swallowing with gurgling, liquids re- 

 turned by nose, buccal mucosa hot and red, salivation, chronic cases. 

 Treatment, medicated drinks and electuaries. 



ANGINA PHARYNGEA. CYNANCHE PHARYNGEA. 



Inflammation of the pharynx owes its existence to the same 

 causes as Laryngitis. 



Symptoms. The general symptoms being like those of Laryn- 

 gitis, the specific and distinguishing ones only will be here 

 noticed. The larynx is not tender to the touch nor is cough 

 thereby excited. The glands beneath the root of the ears (paro- 

 tids) are swollen and tender and cough is induced by handling 

 them. The intermaxillary glands are enlarged. The cough is 

 loose and followed by the ejection of glairy materials by the mouth 

 and nose. Food and drink are swallowed with difficulty and effort, 

 dry grain or hay is often refused, or dropped from the mouth, after 

 it has been chewed, to avoid the pain of swallowing. Deglutition 

 is accompanied by a gurgling sound caused by the abundant secre- 

 tion in the pharynx. In swallowing liquids a portion is often re- 

 jected by the nose. The mouth is hot, red at its back part, and filled 

 with fetid saliva which often drivels from between the lips in the 

 coarser breeds of horses. The fever varies according to the in- 

 tensity of the inflammation. This disease is rarely serious, and 

 improvement is manifested, by a free discharge from the nose of 

 a white opaque color, by the ability to swallow without pain, and 

 the better appetite and general appearance. Collections of pus in 

 the Guttural pouches may result from pharyngitis. See Chronic 

 Nasal Catarrh. 



I have seen chronic cases of this disease due to fracture of the 

 large branch of the hyoid bone ; and Reynal, to laceration or 

 ulceration of the soft palate, and an abscess of the pharyngeal 

 mucous membrane. 



The treatment does not differ materially from that of laryngitis 

 except in the greater value of soft food, mucilaginous and acidu- 

 lated drink and of electuaries which act on the throat as they 

 dissolve. Subjoined is a formula : 



Recipe : Extract Belladonna, four drams ; potassium iodide, one 

 ounce ; sodium hyposulphite, three ounces ; mellis, five ounces. 

 Mix'. A dessert spoonful to be smeared on the inside of the cheek 

 thrice daily. 134 



