A practical inquiry into disordered respiration; distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / [Robert Bree].

  • Robert Bree
Date:
1810
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Credit: A practical inquiry into disordered respiration; distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / [Robert Bree]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the slightest interruption of its functions. It is agreeable to reason and philosophy to infer that such actions, in whatever organs they occur, are at first exerted by nature for some salutary end. Ifa material stimulate the stomach, by its quality or quantity, so far as to impede the digestion of food, it must be ejected for the safety of the body. If a gall stone, by stopping the duct, prevent the dis- charge of bile into the bowels, the muscular actions are increased, and their excess is intended to remove the obstruction. If scybala be included in the cells of the colon, the natéral peristaltic motion is suspended, or becomes irregular as soon as this in- convenience is felt. Convulsive contractions next take place, and continue till the offending matter be discharged. ALEXANDER Munro, senior, has stated the na- ture of muscular exertions for the relief of the body, as follows: ‘ Whenever the uneasy sensa- “tion, pain, is raised by the too strong application ** of objects, a sort of necessity is, as it were, im- “ posed upon the mind, to endeavour to get free of “ the injuring cause, by either withdrawing the “ grieved part of the body from it, as one retires “ his hand when his finger is pricked or burnt; or “the injuring cause is endeavoured to be forced “from the body, as a tenesmus excites the con- *‘iraction which pushes acrid feces out of the “rectum. In both these operations, a convulsive /
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