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Studies in Status Lymphaticus and Its Relation to Anesthetic Deaths.*

Anesthetist, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Abstract

HE FIRST CASE of status lymphaticus was reported by Felix Plater in 1614 in the following words: "Suffocation from a hidden internal struma about the throat. The son Marcus Peresius five months of age, well nourished, with no previous illnesses, suddenly died from difficult breathing, suffocation. As the father had previously lost two sons from the same malady and being desirous of knowing the cause, we opened the chest at his request. We found the gland in the region of the throat as a large protruding tumor, one ounce in weight, spongy, fleshy and pendant, replete with veins adherent by membranes to the largest ascending vessel adjacent to the throat; these being filled with blood and flowing into the struma, dilated it to such an extent that it compressed the blood vessels in the locality; in which manner I concluded the child was thus suffocated."

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999