A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable ... / [Thomas Beddoes].

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808
Date:
1793]
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Credit: A letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a new method of treating pulmonary consumption, and some other diseases hitherto found incurable ... / [Thomas Beddoes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quently than is commonly underftood. ‘This fymptom is a convulfive cough, often of fuch alarming violence, as to be likely to perplex and difconcert inexperienced pra&titioners. It feems to alternate and intermix with the well- known fhort, dry cough. You will recolleé that I had once occafion to defcribe to you this convulfive cough from nature. I find it occafionally mentioned, but not much infifted upon, by authors. Thus Dr. Murray, lately | Profeffor at Gottingen, and author of the Apparatus Medicaminum, in defcribing the firtt fymptoms he obferved in his brother who died of Confumption, informs us: Tussis vEHE- MENTER ingravescebat, que non catarrhalis ‘unice videbatur, sed simul {paftica.---Tussis antea sicca, humida fiebat. (Murray de phthst pituitosa apud Baldingerum in sylloge Opusculorum : V. 316.) Raulin (De la Phthifie pulm: Paris 1782. p. 44) mentions a perfon qui fut pris au mois d’Adut 1771 d’une toux seche, que devint plus forte & plus frequente: aw mois d Avril, oo ie