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 stagnate in the air cells of the lungs, or he taken up by the absorbents, and be again efl’used in the lower extremities, the identity of the cause is sufficiently plain. Insanity sometimes suspends Consumption, and Consumption supersedes Insanity: Asthma is like- wise succeeded occasionally by Insanity ; probably in consequence of the turgid state of the vessels of the head, which is caused by the difficulty witli which the right side of the heart propels the blood through the lungs to the left. In the hy- dropic diathesis, so frequently accom])anying ad- vanced Asthma, the disease of the head is still more frequent. The following two cases* deserve attention. In one, the patient had alternately Asthma and Insanity : in the other there appeared Anasarca and Insanity at the same time. The treatment was suc- cessful, though founded on the sole indication of curing the Dropsy. We conclude, then^ that Asthma, Insanity, and Dropsy, had the same cause; for, if Insanity * Withering on the Fox Glove, cases 24 and 34. I 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
