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Credit: Materia medica pura (Volume 3). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![short breathing, as if he were in the midst of a quantity of dust, and this prevented him from breathing. Asthma. Asth- ma ibr several hours. Evening asthma.—75. Oppression of the chest after a meal. The interior of the chest feels sore. Suffocative cough. Suffocative cough, the child becoming quite stiff and blue in the face. (a. 10 h.) Dry cough, 'pro- duced by a titillation in the upper part of the larynx, (a. 2, 3, 5 h.)—80. Cough occasioned by a contractive titillating sensation in the throat, extending from the upper part of the larynx to the lowest part of the bronchial tubes, (a. 4, 6, 7 h.) Cough continuing without an interruption after walking in the cold air and when lying down, morning and evening, excit- ed by a deep inspiration ; accompanied with a colic, as if the umbilicus would be torn out, and with heat in the (head) face, and sweat on the forehead. Pain in the abdomen when cough- ing, as if there were a pressure upon the bladder, and the urine could not escape, as in retention of urine. Cough occasions an inclination to vomit without nausea, (a. 1 h.) Beating pain in the head and pit of the stomach after coughing.—85. [Pinch- ing, (darting-tearing) pains of short duration in the right chest in front of the axilla.] [Violent, repeated sneezing. Asthma.—60. Spasmodic asth- ma, with violent contraction in the throat and chest, a peculiar kind of panting sound being heard—in two females, the at- tack which lasted a fortnight, being caused by the vapor of the powder in a distant room.—Contraction in the chest with short and panting breathing ; she had to gasp for air at the open win- dow, with pale face, scarcely perceptible pulse, and danger of suffocation, from evening until 9 o'clock in the morning. The asthma comes on again in twenty-four hours, from 10 o'clock in the evening until 10 in the morning, for eight days. Suffocative fit for two or three days.—65. Cough, with expec- toration of a thick mucus, having a repulsive metallic taste. Haemoptysis. Cough towards evening, continuing for one hour, suffocating, fatiguing, exhausting. Excessively violent, con- vulsive cough, between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening. Cough at 7 o'clock in the evening, continuing for half an hour, suffoca- tive, extremely exhausting, with coldness of the extremities.] Extremities and Back : (Cramp pain during motion be- tween the scapulas.) Pinching pains in the right arm. (a. 3 h.) One of his hands is cold. (Herpetic eruption on the wrist- joint and at the anus, itching especially in the evening after lying down ; after scratching, red blotches make their appear- ance upon the skin, but the itching continues, nevertheless.)—90. Pain in the knee as if the tendons and ligaments had been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21125284_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
