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A practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839
Date:
1815
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Credit: A practical inquiry into disordered respiration : distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | | or treatment of this disease. ‘‘ Asthma,” says this author, “ dicitur ab acwaivev, (quod est anhelare, ‘sive difficulter respirare) et describi potest quod “ sit resprratio drfficrlis, crebra, et anhelosa, cum “ magna pectoris agitatione, et plerumque citra “¢ febrem*.” Pachewig HorrMan gives. the same latitude to the term in’ the following description: ‘Hoc vero (Asthma) secundum nostram sen- “‘tentiam nihil est, quam | impedita et laboriosa “ admodum respiratio, cum imeffabrl anzietate, et ‘“* precordiorum angustia guncta, liberum’sanguinis “ per pulmones circurtum jturbans, a variis causis ss wee periculs sepfocatons non meaner Ba ances authors adopted the Greek ‘spoiler as ithe head, of a class of specific forms, ‘and afterwards distinguished the several causes, which, according - totheir observations, were-productive of that uni- form apparent effect, “difficult respiration.” TO : i } > ortel al (‘99 8 oF mits? | Bbitenice caput xii..de Asthmate. =. |.) ont ai be et FREDERICI HoOFFMANNI, Medicin. Rationals Systema. om, Ve sect. Il. cap. H. § UL. : Hin