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A practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839
Date:
1815
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Credit: A practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT. LI. Dyspnea of Dr. Cullen comprises cases of Continued Asthma of Floyer, 38... Under this name the disease preserves its charac- ter in a milder form, 38...Anhelation an acute case of Dys- pnea, proceeding from violent or rapid exercise, 40.,.'The muscles of locomotion and respiration do not readily increase their actions at the same time, 41. SECT. IV. FIRST SPECIES OF CONVULSIVE ASTHMA. The progress made in this Inquiry, 43... Asthma from irritation not so apparent as in the continued species, 43., . The PERIO- DIc FLATULENT of Floyer; the SpAsMoDIc ASTHMA of Cullen, 44.,.Convulsive Asthma, first Species, described, 45. . Its: proximate cause investigated, 51...The path which was followed in the Inquiry into the cause of the manifest species pursued in treating of this, 52...Symptoms and indi- éations generally the same, 53...Sir John Floyer’s case, 54... The muscular reactions indicate an irritation in the lungs, 55. SECT. V. The presence of mucus in Asthma, 57...The origin of this se- rous fluid, 58...The observations of writers on this symptom of the disease, 60...Galen, 60... Alexander Trallianus, 60... The Arabian Physicians,,60., . Remark of Willis and criticism of Morgaguni on the opinions of the ancient authors, 61... Me- dical writers of the 16th and 17th centuries, 62.. .Jodocus Lo- mius, 63.. .Sennertus, 63... Riverius, 64,,. All] acknowledged the excess of serum in Asthma, and make it the only cause of the disease, 65.. .Important inference, 65..; The doctrine of Willis founded on this condition of the fluids, 65... Consider-