LARYNGISMUS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Laryngismus

... where the disease called croup occasionally prevails. There was no appearance of the disease among them at the period of their visit, but the Portuguese inhabitants of that bay found that they had left it among them, and several adults were cut off by a form of the complaint called 'Laryngismus stridulus', the disease of which the great Washington died. Similar cases have occurred in the South Sea Islands. Ships have left diseases from which no one on board was suffering at the time of their visit. Many of the inhabitants here were cut down, usually in three days from their ...

— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone