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:
1803
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    For this reason a general view may be taken of such manifest and undeniable irritations as have been observed by practical authors, before we pursue the other parts of the subject. Hydrothorax occasions Asthma by an external compression of the air vessels of the lungs,* and it is also too often the consequence of Asthma, when that disease is inveterate. Vide Carol. Piso de Morbis ex sero p. 217.—Baglivi Praxis, p. 107.—Goodwin on animal life and respiration, where is an example of this cause of Asthma, artificially produced. Also Boneti Sepulchret. Anatom. torn. i. p. 515, 516, et insequent.—Mr. Cruikshank on the absorbent system, p. 116.— Morgagni, lib. ii. epist. xvi. Similar to this cause of Dyspnoea is the Hydrops Pericardii. Morgagni, lib. ii. epist. xvi. An Empyema, abscess, or large tubercle: stea- tomatous tumour, &c. in the substance of the lungs or on their investing membranes. Vide Jacob Wepser, exerc. de apoplexia. Boneti Sepulchret. Anatom. Mangeti. torn. i. p. 352, 353, 498, 499, 500, &c—Columbus, lib. xv. * Vide Hai.ler, v.d Bokrhaav. Prcelect. § 102. not, 17. *