On asthma : its pathology and treatment / by Henry Hyde Salter.

  • Henry Hyde Salter
Date:
1868
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. TKELIMINAEY INQUIRY INTO THE TENABILITY OF THE THEORIES OF ASTHMA. Theory 1. That bronchial spasm is not necessarily present in asthma; Laennec's Asthma, with puerile breathing; Copland's Nervous asthma; Walshe's Hsemic asthma. These dyspnoeas not true asthma.—2. Dr. Bree's theory of a specific irritating mucus.—3. That asthma is the dyspnoea of bronchitis ; the *' Bronchite h, rales vibrants of M. Beau.—4. The Humoral theory.—o. Dr. Todd's theory of a poisoning of certain portions of the nervous centres, or nerves, of respira- tion, by a specific materies morbi.—6. That asthma is nothing but the dyspnoea of emphysema.—7. That the phenomena of asthma are due to spasm or paralysis of the respiratory muscles,—8. That asthma is paralysis of the bronchial tubes.—9. That there is no such thing as asthma, as a substantive dise^e . pp. 1—23 CHAPTER II. THE PATHOLOGY OF ASTHMA.—ITS ABSOLUTE NATURE. Asthma essentially a nervous disease.—The phenomena of asthma immediately dependent upon spastic contraction of the organic muscle of the bronchial tubes.—Evidence derived from the dyspnoea and sovinds of asthma.— The four ways in which the bronchise may be narrowed.—The phenomena of asthma mostly excito-motory or reflex.— The portion of the nervous system involved differs in different cases, being sometimes restricted to that of the lungs themselves.—Different degrees of remoteness of irritant. —Irritant sometimes humoral; a contaminate pulmonary blood.—Physio- logical argument: Spasm-theory confirmed by the purposes of the bronchial muscle in health pp. 24—60