A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839.
Date:
1815
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    tions, but of this state there has yet been no proof. The subject is illustrated still more by an irrita- tion in the intestinum rectum. All the attention of the patient is then turned to the excruciating te- nesmus, but it is certain that the violent peristal- tic action above the rectum, and the strong con- tractions of the abdominal muscles and of the dia- phragm, are the means employed to discharge the offence, and also very materially occasion or in- crease the pain in the part where it rests. In the discharge of urine the chief perception of irritation is in the bladder; but if the muscles , which have been stated to act in expelling the feces, did not contract with great effort, the per- ception could not be so strong, since the propelling of the contents of the bladder towards its neck must precede the relaxation of the sphincter. Yet the attention of the animal rests upon the effect, and the particular seat of the cause of these efforts, although no motion be at present performed by the bladder. Afterwards, by the uniform and steady contraction of its own muscular coat, the urine is expelled*. *Munrq on the Nervous System, chap, XXVIII.