Notes on asthma : its nature, forms and treatment / by John C. Thorowgood.

  • Thorowgood, John C. (John Charles), 1833-1913.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Notes on asthma : its nature, forms and treatment / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about fifty cases of bronchitic asthma; they will serve to illustrate those points in the treat- ment of the complaint to which attention has been already drawn, and some of them will further exemplify the use and properties of some remedies which have been already named, such as phos- phorus and the hypopliosphites. Cough and nocturnal clgspncea, slight benefit from cod liver oil and iodide of iron, cured by mer- curials. Case YIII.—Robert R., setat. 16 years, came under treatment October 10th, 1865. He is a pale, light haired youth, and his complaint is of cough, and much thick yellow expectoration con- sequent on neglected cold. He has never raised any blood, the tongue is clean, tonsils very large, chest is resonant, but some few crepitating sounds are heard in upper part of left lung. Pulse 120. Till October 26tli he was treated with cod liver oil and iodide of iron, and at first he seemed to improve on these medicines; but on October 26th he seemed to have taken some fresh cold, for the cough was very severe at night, and after the fits