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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    body, therefore, fhould be guided by his pre- vious habits, as well as by the natural vigor of his conftitution-, and endeavour to be able to bear the unavoidable hardfhips of his occupation, that he may, if pofiible, follow it with fafety. So much for the predifpofition of the body, as favoring afthmatical complaints. Some may, at firft fight, think that one or two pre- difpofing caufes are overlooked, viz. corpu- lency and an hereditary dijpofiticn.—With regard to the firft we anfwer, that corpulency is con- nected with plethora, of which we have fpoken as powerfully creating irritability of the lungs. A corpulent perfon is always full of blood. With regard to hereditary difpofition, we ad- mit the fact, that the Afthma is often an he- reditary difeafe; but at the fame time muft obferve, that we have already fully confidered it under mal-conformation of the cheft, fcrofu- lous tubercles in the lungs, and a peculiar natural irritability of them, all of which de* feds in the conftitution are hereditary. Having confidered fully the principal pre- difpofing caufes of the convulfive Afthma, we proceed to enumerate the occafwnal Theie F 2 are