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
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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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    The tendency to discharge copiously watery iirine^ accompanies more or less all the varieties of Asthma which make their attack periodically. The kidnies receive nerves from the inter cos tals^ and we are led to a supposition of strong association of actions in the kidnies^, stomachy and lungs^ from the sympathy thus established. The diabetic discharge does not, however, appear to afford relief to the lungs in the paroxysm of Asthma. If it were useful, it would still confirm the pathology liere delivered; but it precedes or accompanies the paroxysm instead of following it. It continues whilst the exacerbations last, and is reduced to a healthy standard when they finally cease, the balance between exhalation and absorp- tion being then generally, as well as locally, re- stored to the vessels of the body. In support of this reasoning, we find that the hydropic, diathesis cannot be concealed in the ad-* vanced state of this species of Asthma; for, by the testimony of every medical authority, it terminates very frequently in anasarca. But before that species of Dropsy comes to be suspected, the exhalents of the kidnies permit the passage of great quantities of water, which, for some time may prevent the ellnsion in the cellular
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