Excerpt from On Stertor, Apoplexy, and the Management of the Apoplectic State
For more than thirty years in the course of my professional work, I have been observing and investigating the causes and consequences of stertor, and considering its relations with the many forms of disease and accident in which it has been found to be present. During that period I have learned, that not only may it be more or less injurious to the sufferer and interfere with the natural course towards recovery, but that it may be, and often is, immediately and supremely dangerous to life. I have also learned that stertorous breathing can at all times be promptly relieved by the judicious application of common physical laws, viz. by placing the patient in certain suitable positions and allowing gravitation to have its sway. The removal of stertor, then, in all cases, should have our first and anxious care, and be the basis of all our treatment; for stertor, wherever and in whatever form it exists, invariably implies more or less obstruction to free and easy breathing. It is therefore obvious that in any condition of illness this must be pernicious, and at least retard recovery.
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