A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839.
Date:
1807
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    Though Morgagni frequently discovered such a condition of tlie air cells, when the patients had laboured under disordered respiration, he generally contents himself with recording the fact; and dwells longer on the alterations of organic struc- ture, which he had an opportunity of remarking. Eifusions into the cavities of the chest and of the pericardium also are more carefully noticed than effusions in the vesiculae and bronchia; the latter could not, in cases commonly occurring, occasion death; the former are frequently causes of death, though their preceding symptoms may be less distressing than the paroxysm of convulsive Asthma. We are, therefore, not to expect so much de- monstrative evidence of effusion in the air cavities in cases of simple Spasmodic x4sthma, as in others where that might be the attendant disorder, but where life was terminated by a disease of more de- cisive violence. But as there is some light to be obtained from these complicated cases, we shall present a few. I shall likewise be determined by the history of symptoms, to claim, for the advantage of our Inquiry, cases which may be classed under other 8