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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    of himfelf, much better often than I was will- ing to credit, for my prognoftic concerning the event of his cafe was very unfavorable. In about three weeks after, an abfcefs broke fuddenly in his lungs, whence ifTued forth a confiderable quantity of blood and matter of a foetid fmell, which were followed by the dis- charge of a great number of Ikins, fuch as fre- quently line the internal furfaces of the air- yeffels after inflammation. This difcharge pro- ved critical, and he continued afterwards to recover faft every day, and was foon difmiifed perfectly cured. I fay he continued to recover after that difcharge; for it was evident that the beginning of his recovery was many weeks before the breaking of the abfcefs, as the re- turn of appetite and ftrength, and the diminu- tion of many alarming fymptoms fufficiently evinced. During this time nature in all proba- bility was happily employed in making a fepa- ration of the difeafed parts from the found, and in ripening and preparing them for the expuU fion which was foon after to take place. I believe the exercife, which he was obliged to ufe, was upon the whole of benefit to him, and contributed towards his recovery. The blood evidently proceeded latterly from fmall veflels,