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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![water had been received into the lungs. Dr. Goodwin says^ a difficult and stertorous re- spiration is observed. This inconvenience arises from some water still remaining in the lungs^ which will be gradually evaporated by the ex- pired air.'’^ As to a Spasmodic Constriction of the bronchia, which in the opinion of Cullen, is the proximate cause of the disease, there are many objections to be opposed to this theory. ]. Dyspneea has the same appearance to an ob- server as Asthma, excepting that it is more con- stant than the latter, and Cullen assigns to it the same causes as to Continued Asthma: if therefore this affection can exist without constriction of the bronchia as a proximate cause, so may Convulsive Asthma. 2. The straitness of the breast, some dyspmea, and wheezing, remain between the tits in many instances, which should prove the continued presence of a Spasmodic Constriction though this state, by the laws of animal life, cannot be permanent. * Goodwin on Animal Life and Respiration, p. 118.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0134.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
