A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree.
- Robert Bree
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![caimot be excited to discharge it. When the irritability of tlie coiisiitutioii has been so reduced sullocation has really taken place^ and many in- stances .have been recorded where the danger of this event was imminent. Obs. X. Morgagni ^ gives the history of a maiden subject^ who died with a iluid running out of her mouth. She had taken cold at the time of menstruation; and difficulty of breath- ing was the reigning symptom. The abdominal viscera and uterus were in a very morbid state ; but the lungs were distended with k frothy serum. The dissection does not prove that she died from the state of the lungs only, but that an effusion iiad taken place in that organ; and it appeared that the natural eifort of respiration was unequal to contend with that particular affection, for the fluid issued from her mouth agreeably to the feature which Cj]iLfus Aurelianus has given in Ills description of Asthma. An instance similar to tbis^ as far as' regards the affection of the longs, will be seen in a patient who survived the discharge, and whose case is an acknowledged Asthma. Epist. xxi. xxix.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0106.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
