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.

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    or necessarily a consequence of de- fluxion from the head ; it may result from vehement exertion of the voice, or the respiration of a cold atmo- sphere ; by which an inflammatory affection is brought on, and if it be protracted, there folloivs a cough of malignant tendency. i About Actuarius.—If, says this A.D. 1300. ailj]lor^ tjjgpe js a confluemce of the humours, so as to produce ob- struction of the air-passages, a diffi- culty of breathing, great in proportion to that obstruction, ensues ; but it does not always follow, that the substance of the lung is affected. In an advanced stage of the complaint, he remarks,<so