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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![IIS lungs. The diagnostics^ of Professor Cullen„ were • only to be explained by tracing them to this source from which they naturally arose. But there are other symptoms^ which;, though hot constantly meeting in the same paroxysm;, very generally at- tend the disease;, and give additional support to this proximate cause. The contracting muscles by the laws of the animal oeconomy;, have alternations of exertion and rest. After a muscle had been, for some time sti- mulated to contract, a relaxation will succeed, though the stimulating cause may continue in force.f Happy is the Asthmatic, who, in conse- quence of repeated paroxysms, is not influenced by the secondary law of habit; for morbid contrac- tions of the muscles will also continue or return at intervals, though the stimulus which first ex- cited them be removed, as happens in tenesmus for some time after the exclusion of acrid excre- ment.;]; The exacerbation of convulsive asthma will at * See Sect. vii. f See Zoononiia, Vol. I. Sect. xii. i. 3.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0148.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
