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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![. 34 DISORDERED every where. And Mr. J. Hunter * * coincides in his opinion, as we may presume from his account of the explosions from the vagina. ^ Notwithstand- ing these authorities, it may perhaps be most prudent to believe, that the blood contains no de- tached masses of air. The lungs are susceptible of a diseased growth^ of which instances are well a^certaiiied.f On opening the thorax of an hydropic patient, his lungs were found of a monstrous size, very pale, and free from any other disease. The heart was, however, loaded with excessive fat; and these organs seemed to have robbed the liver of its nourishment, for that viscus w as particularly small. The patient had laboured under dyspnoea for many years. %j The suppression of customary evacuations of * See Animal CEconomy. The phaenomenon asserted by the ingenloQS anatomist Is very plainly described by Sylvius (loc. citat.) Flatus.—Observantur quoque exc]udi per Urethram ; sic qui ad Utemm sunt delati, aut in ipso geniti per ipsius cervicem utramque observantur erumpere, atquc foras exitmn • • -1 f' invenire!” S/Ivius Praxis, lib. i. cap. 24, sec t. 12, 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28267849_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
