Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy / From a MS. of the late Dr. Lucas.

Date:: 1774

Credit: Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy / From a MS. of the late Dr. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ C » ] '' SECTION I. r ’HE trunk of the human body is JL divided into two feparate cavities : The upper part of which is called the thorax, or chejl;—-the lungs are fituate therein, and are called by anatomilts one of the noble parts ;—they confift of two lobes, which have no dire£t communication with each other, being in feparate and diffinct bags, formed by a membrane, receding in two parts lower down, fo as to form the pericardium that contains the heart, i The lungs are compofed of velfels and nerves that have each their feveral func¬ tions: Of which— 4 4$