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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    k PRACTICAL INQUIRt' INTO DISORDERED RESPIRATION, &c. PART 1. SECTION I. Asthma a general name for disordered respiration.—^Violent mus- cular action indicates Irritation- as in the stomach, gall duct^ bowels.—Irritation in the pulmonary organ.—Difficulty of Breathing, this term does not explain the natural fact j always to be referred to Irritation.—A more precise idea of the in- struments of convulsive respiration.—Analogy of the perception of Irritation in the lungs, and in the rectum and bladder.—> Motus Medicati of Gaubius. » ASTHMiV, in its original meaning, long con- tinued to embrace all the cases of difficult respira- tion; but nosologists have lately confined the term to a peculiar form of this general aflection. If we go back to the time of Willis, we shall not find in the period which has elapsed since his writ- , ings appeared, much improvement in the pathology