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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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    CONTENTS. . RIX ations on the authority of Willis, 67... The consequence of neglecting a material cause, 69. SECT. VI. Anatomical evidence of serous effusion in the air cells of the lungs of Asthmatics, 70... Effusion in complicated cases very frequent ; in uncomplicated cases seldom inquired for, ‘but occasionally discovered,-71... A series of Anatomical observa- tions applying to complicated and. uncomplicated Convulsive Asthma, 72...The Suffocative Catarrh considered, 82... Evi- - dence in Living Subjects of excessive Effusion in the air cells _ of the Lungs, as palpable as from Dissection, 86...This con- dition supported by the Description of Asthma by Czlius Aurelianus, 88... Physiologica] Considerations on the Entrance of Serum into the Air Cavities of the Lungs, 89.,.The Expe- . riments of Goodwin and Hales, 90. i SECT, VU. / Floyer, Hoffman, and Callen, on Asthma, 93... Description of the Disease by Aretzeus, 95...The capillary exhalents of the Jungs unlike convoluted glands, 96... The use and indication of Convulsive Respiration, 98...The effect of frequent re- currence of spasm discovered by analogy of irritation situated in other organs, 99... Effect of irritation applied to different parts of the pulmonary system, 99... Diagnostic symptoms, 100... Difficulty of breathing, 100.. .Cough, 100... Straitness, 100...Wheezing, 102...A person recovered from drowning presents an explanation of wheezing in Asthma, 193...Ob- jections to a Spasmodic Constriction, 104.. . Spasmodic Con- striction possibly attends, 106...