It commences in the form of a small white aphthous sore; which usually attacks the velum or posterior part of the pharynx, mostly the latter.
In some the tonsils were beset with aphthous sloughs, and towards the decline there would be aphthae of the mouth, but symptomatic only, and not the dominant lesion as in the ulcerous sore-throat.
Dr Wall goes on to say that the "Kidderminster sore-throat" had a vast variety of symptoms, the only certain ones being aphthous ulcers and sloughs on the tonsils and parts about the pharynx.
Aphthæ and thrush are most frequently met with in children, though small aphthous ulcers frequently appear toward the close of wasting, and especially cancerous, affections.
Parotitis with salivation sometimes occurs, likewise aphthous inflammations of the mouth.
We must be careful not to mistake a mere local accumulation of mucus, or aphthous vesicle, or the curd-like formation of thrush or muguet, either for ulceration or pseudo-membranous deposit.
Slight ulceration of the gums close to the teeth is occasionally noted, also aphthous ulcerations on the lips, tongue, and gums (Ringer).
When the restoration to health is retarded by the continuance of diarrhoea or by the occurrence of any intercurrent affection, the tongue will often become pale and flabby and be the seat of superficial ulcerations or of aphthous exudations.
The aphthous vagina of pregnancy is not a common affection.
It appears to be essentially different from the common prurigo, being an aphthous state of the lining membrane of the vagina and skin which covers the perineum and external organs.
Aphthous stomatitis occurs at all ages, and is most prevalent during summer heat.
Sometimes a disposition exists to the formation of small aphthous ulcerations on the tongue or elsewhere in the mouth, particularly at the duplicature of the lip and the outer surface of the alveoli.
The dysphagia here considered is not likely to be confounded with the difficulty in swallowing which is due to weakness or to aphthous inflammation of the throat and gullet, which often attends the last days of gastric cancer.
In the cachectic stage, toward the end of the disease, aphthous patches {541} often appear on the tongue and buccal mucous membrane.
The above are used in thrush oraphthous sore mouth, ptyalism, &c.
In aphthous sores, relaxations, ulceration of the tonsils, &c.
Aphthous ulcerations are not often observed in cases of poisoning by antimony.
Aphthous ulcerations in the glands of the small intestines are also symptoms of the presence of antimony—there were none in this case.
Alum, Exsiccated: to aphthous ulcers which do not readily heal.
Also valuable as “an application to indolent ulcers, an injection in gleet and leucorrhea, a gargle in relaxation of the uvula and aphthous ulcerations of the throat.
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