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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    least distinguish the disease, though the difference might be found by attention to collateral symp- toms; the pulse was full and hard as in other inflammations, and a pain, not pungent but oppressive, was felt where the disease lay. In the progress of the disorder the expectoration of fetid pus, in large quantity, declared the nature of the inconvenience which irritated the lungs. Bartholine* gives a very fortunate instance of the cure of a secret vomica exciting Asthma, and wearing away the body. The patient was wound- ed by a sword, the point of which passed between the ribs, and opened the sac. The effusion of pus was attended to, and the patient was restored to health. A brave officer was shot through the lungs at the battle of Quebec, and was cured of his wound, and an Asthma at the same time. It is probable spme organic derangement was removed, as in the case related by Bartholine. Polypous concretions in the ventricles of the heart, and pulmonic vessels, are considered by Hoffman as a frequent occasion of difficulties of breathing. In his Consultations he appears to * Histor. Anat. 14. Centur. 6. Vide Fernelius Patholog. lib. v. cap. x.