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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    Such are the symptoms, as they affect the organs of respiration. The urgency and danger of the disease is undoubtedly to be estimated by that of the dyspnoea which attends it, necessary for the lubrication of the passages, oc- casions the noisy inspiration which it is so dis- tressing to hear. After the first violence is sub- dued, and the secretions are in some measure restored, the expectoration may be difficult from various causes:—early in the complaint, from the scantiness as well as from the viscidity and adhesiveness of the mucus: later, from its re- dundancy, and the debility of the muscular action X)f the parts. Pus, liable to neither of these accidents, is generally extricated without diffi- culty. This is noticed and explained too by Aretmus. pyt^iuc avatyEperai ... iroXvrptjroc yap 6 iryev/Luov, ETroyynj ikeXos, ov yaXeiratvav 7u> vypu> aXXrjv air' Evpvyupirjv ap.itfiuv tp p,E<T((u ttjc rpyjxeirjs apTijpcyjg ijkeiv. iVKapinjc yao Kal oXurdrjpov to ttvov' arap teai avairyorj uvu to wtvp.a (j>vo~r]. 'Kpov.HaO. B. Kc-