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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    length it produced no good effecT: whatfo-* ever. It appears extremely probable, indeed, that if the bark could have been given in fufficient quantity on the lirft onfet, a complete flop would have been put to the fits: this, however, was rendered imprac- ticable, by the delicate ftate of the patient's ftomach ; and all our hopes of a cure from this fource were fruftrated. The addition of the flowers of zinc did not render it more effectual. It is worthy of notice, that, at the time the bark feemed to operate mo ft advanta- geoufly in combating the difeafe, it had little or no efFed; in reftoring the patient to his former ftate of vivacity and vigour; he flill remained deprefTed in his fpirits, feeble in his limbs, and in every refpecl as ener- vated as before he began to make ufe of it. This difappointment from medicines of 4 the