Observations on the history and cure of the asthma : in which the propriety of using the cold bath in that disorder is fully considered / by Michael Ryan, M.D. and member of the Royal Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh.

  • Ryan, Michael, approximately 1760-1823.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the history and cure of the asthma : in which the propriety of using the cold bath in that disorder is fully considered / by Michael Ryan, M.D. and member of the Royal Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ful ftate of the practice in afthma ; an un* dertaking, therefore, to difcover how far cold-bathing is adapted to its cure, does not feem to require an apology, but merits fome attention from the Public. As it is the principal object of this EfTay, to confider the effects of cold-bathing on aflhmatics, and by facts and cautious de- ductions to render the practice as univerfal as poffible, the Author, of courfe, cannot enter into a full difcuffion of the hiftory and cure of the diforder after the manner of former writers. Several obfervations, ne- verthelefs, have occurred to him on each of thefe fubjectsj and as, in his opinion, many of them have been made with accuracy, he thinks it his duty to impart them to the Public. ♦*:• Kilkenny, July i, 1792. CONTENTS