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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![phlegm, because the hysteric, who have no phlegm, wheeze very much.'' Wheezing and straitness of the breast very frequently remain in a greater or less degree be- tween the fits, when the convulsive actions of the muscles have subsided, which shews the inadequacy of a S])asmodic Constriction as the cause, since no one is ready to assert the constancy of spasm, without relaxation for a long period. The wheezing generally continues through the dis- ease, gradually becoming less, till the secretion of lymph is reduced to the usual quantity, and the oesophagus no longer compresses the trachea, flatulence and indigestion being removed, when it ceases. To confirm our explanation, we find this symptom in Phthisis attributed to the mucus or pus stuffing the trachea.^ Wheezing is the same sound in Phthisis as in Asthma; but the ob- server was not biassed by authority to assign it to spasm. We also see it accompany the condition of a ^person recovering from suspended animation after * White on Phthisis Pulmonalis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0133.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
