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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    commencement was fevere and attended with a fever, had in all probability been the confe- quence of previous inflammation. At the time when I firft faw him, his conftant wheezing and lhortnefs of breath, along with a cough and fudden attacks of difficult refpiration for near eight months, was a very fufficient proof of obftru&ions and fpafmodic affections of the lungs. By this long difeafe, his conftitution was greatly injured, his body was become large, color pale, flefh wafted, limbs fmall and ema- ciated, but his face did not look proportionably thin and fallen. He had been flow in getting his teeth, and therefore had many more ftill to cut. Whether or no he had worms, was not certain, becaufe he had not parted with, any which had been obfcrved. As his body was large and harder than natural, the mefentery probably was fomewhat obftructed, a complaint wh.ch diflections have proved to be very com- mon among children. With this view of the difeafe, a few dofes of a gentle mercurial were indicated, as deobflruent, laxative, and antifpafmodic, and they had the defired effect; for they kept his body regular without producing any griping pains in the bowels, and difcharged a quantity of matter, which