今冬感冒に隨伴せる呼吸困難症例

　緒言

　今冬の感冒は咽頭喉頭の症状を伴なうことが多く，且つ之が長期に亘ることは衆知の所であるが，私達は最近高度な呼吸困難のため気管切開を余儀なくされ或は気管切開の脅威にさらされた症例を多数経験したので，此処に代表的なものを報告したいと思う。

Iwata and associates stress the point that more serious attitude is required in examin-ation of patients who complain of difficulty of breathing especially when such symptoms occur concomittant with an attack of asiatic influenza. In recent epidemic there were a number of patients with similar complaints who were not properly investigated and later found to be affected with laryngeal abcesses Three such cases of abcesses required trac-heotomy.