The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 130
or clustered at different portions of the laryngeal mucous membrane, were attributed to accumulations of miliary tubercle. The customary destructive metamorphosis of these bodies, long before the death of the patient, prevents verification or denial of their initial tuberculous character upon… … Distended mucous glands. Distended mucous glands (of three years' standing). glands ;2 whence the inference has arisen that they are not tubercles ; but are rather hypertrophically distended mucous glands, filled, by occlusion of the orifices of their ducts, with accumulated products of secretion…
Medicine
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.