On some of the diseases affecting the voice and respiration : including consumption, asthma, and bronchitis, and those disorders of the throat called inflammatory, spasmodic, and ulcerative with remarks on the curative influence of warm bathing in various diseases intended as a guide for the invalid and general reader / by Alfred King.

  • King, Alfred
Date:
1853
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Credit: On some of the diseases affecting the voice and respiration : including consumption, asthma, and bronchitis, and those disorders of the throat called inflammatory, spasmodic, and ulcerative with remarks on the curative influence of warm bathing in various diseases intended as a guide for the invalid and general reader / by Alfred King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be from twelve to fifteen in a minute. If the abdomen is raised with more force than the walls of the chest, it is called Abdominal Breathing ; if, on the contrary, the expansion of the chest on the front and upper part is more evident than that of the abdomen, it is called Pectoral; this I have often observed in painful affections of the stomach and bowels, such as inflammations. It will also, at times, denote affections of the chest or its muscles; but it must be remem- bered that it is not always a sign of disease. Abdominal respiration, with a full and free dilatation of the chest, is a sign of healthy breathing ; respiration may be considered com- plete when both lungs are equally engaged, when the force and extent of both are equal; and it may be considered incomplete, when one side remains partly or wholly fixed, or expands much less than the other side; and this may be considered an important sign both in adults and children, and will often lead us to suspect disease in that part in which the movement is less; sometimes this will be observed in per- sons who are in apparently good health, but, in such cases, it is to be considered as the result of former pectoral disease. Respiration may vary in frequency, but it is said to be frequent when it exceeds eighteen or