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A woman, aged 34, was admitted to the Rochester Municipal Hospital on the sixth or seventh day of illness with a clinical diagnosis of laryngeal diphtheria.
Soon after her arrival, she coughed out a large piece of membrane which proved to be a cast of the trachea, both bronchi, and several bronchioles. Membrane also extended from the anterior nares to the nasopharynx. Antitoxin had not been given. Cultures were positive for Klebs-Loeffler bacilli. Death occurred twenty-four hours later.