A treatise of the asthma. Divided into four parts / [by John Floyer].

  • Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.
Date:
1717
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Credit: A treatise of the asthma. Divided into four parts / [by John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Breaft, that the Lungs may have a Place fuf- ficient for their Expanfion, and the Air may more plentifully infpire. The Afthmatic is immediately neceffitated to rife out of his Bed, and fit in an eredt Po- fture, that the Weight of the Fifcera may pull down the Diaphragme. The Mufcles which ferve for Expiration, cannot eafily perform the Contraction of the Thorax, being hinder’d in that by the StifFnefs or Inflation of the Membranes in the Thorax; for though the Afthmatic expire more eafily than they can draw in their Breath, yet the Expiration is very flow, and leifurely, and Wheezing j and the Afthmatic can neither Cough, Sneeze, Spit, or Speak freely ; and in the Afthmatic Fit, the Mufcular Fibres of the Bronchia and Fejicula? of the Lungs are Contracted, and that produces the Whee¬ zing Noife, which is moft obfervable in Ex¬ piration : But it is evident to me, that all the Lobes of the Lungs are not conftring’d alike. For in the Fit I could never breathe tolerably, if I lay or lean’d on the left Sidej which made me very fenfible that all my Straitnefs lay on the right Side of my Lungs, and that inclin’d or naturally occafion’d me to lie on that Side during the Fit; but after the Fit was over, I always lie eafieft on the Left Side: I perceive the Right Side to be moft affe&ed in my Cafe, and from thence all the Spit does plainly rife when the Fit goes off After