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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    them, rior any room left for cavil or contra- diction on this fubject. In many cafes be- fides the following, I have known cold- bathing prove highly falutary: but as I was not exact: in committing to paper the hiftory and cure of fuch patients, I cannot think of offering any fact from memory alone, but mall confine myfelf to a more faithful and authentic record. CASE t. The firrt inftance of the good effects of cold-bathing in afthma that happened to come within my knowledge, was that of a woman, about twenty-^five years of age^ who had borne feveral children. From her firft pregnancy onwards, fhe was fubject to fpaf- modic complaints of the ftomach and bowels, both during the periods of geftation* and the intervals thereof; without the fmalleft L 2 tendency,