An essay on bronchitis : with a supplement, containing remarks on simple pulmonary abscess &c / by Charles Badham.

  • Badham, Charles, 1780-1845.
Date:
1814
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Credit: An essay on bronchitis : with a supplement, containing remarks on simple pulmonary abscess &c / by Charles Badham. 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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    He says, that it lias an affinity to asthma ; that its symptoms are, great difficulty in breathing, cough, heat, watchfulness, loss of appetite and of flesh, with small frequent pulse ; that it is a disease of great length; and that it kills some by suffocation, while others fall into an anasarca. Its chief peculiarity, however, is stated to con- sist in an ineffectual effort to expecto- rate, or, if any thing be expelled, it is in small, white, round lumps, like hail*. * ’Avafttjffaovai w? dva^ovrtc, p ar at qtt o\lover k h, dvfov yap avayovai' rjv cl ti tov Trvevpoioc UToppayliT] ftitfi crpiKpov, Atvkov, irpoyyv\ov, XaXa&fos. In the preceding chapter this dis-