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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    Catarrh would not have been improperly applied to Spasmodic Asthma: there is, doubtless a dis- tinction between the diseases; but there may be subjects affected with this Catarrh in whom the line of separation will be lost. If the tone of the exhalents of the lungs be greatly reduced, whilst the habit of the patient is still disposed to a ready association of muscles, and particularly to the morbid contraction of the respi- ratory muscles. Asthma may be the disease occa- sioned by the defluxion, which, in other subjects, might be called Suffocative Catarrh. Obs. XV. The history of the Catarrh which prevailed in Italy in the year 1730, * gives a specimen of Asthma terminating the more acute disease. The cardinal Johannes Franciscus Barba- mcus died of a disorder, which Morgagni calls a Suffocative Catarrh, and which was probably a species of that epidemic which is now called * The epidemic catarrh, or influenza, raged on the Continent, 158O,T0'75. See Bergerus de Circul. Lymphse, C, ii. § 7. Fo-* restus, lib. vi. obs. 3. q2