A treatise on the asthma : to which are added cases and observations, in which the asthma is complicated with the following diseases : catarrhs., humoral asthmas, ... general convulsions / by Thomas Withers.

  • Withers, Thomas, 1750-1809.
Date:
1786
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Credit: A treatise on the asthma : to which are added cases and observations, in which the asthma is complicated with the following diseases : catarrhs., humoral asthmas, ... general convulsions / by Thomas Withers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crates, Galen, &c. are very confufed ancf unintelligible. From thefe, nevertheless, and other authors I have felecred what is ufeful, and particularly from Floyer, who (as I mall afterwards mew) had a true no- tion of the convulfive Afthma, but fo ob- fcured with falfe facts and falfe reafoning, as not to be eafily difcovered. The public Lectures of Dr. Cullen, who has with admirable fuccefs made the nervous fyftem his particular ftudy, have afforded me the greateft light on this moft important fubject. The fame remark is alfo true with regard to a former publica- tion of mine on Chronic Weaknefs, which contains many ufeful facts and obfervations iimilar to thofe which are delivered by him in his moft excellent Lectures on in- digellion, weaknefs of the (lomach and bowels, and relaxation of the folids. I mention this here, becaufe in the hurry of publication I forgot to mention it for- merly an omiffion which I am very happy in having this opportunity-of pub- lickly