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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    IS a case of Asthma analogous to any other form of gibbosity. The malformation of the ensiforme cartilage, by its being turned inwards as if artificially depressed, is productive of hepatitis and chronic affections of the stomach, and also of Asthma. Oiemerbroeck has particularly noticed the inconveniences from this cause. Lib. ix. cap. xiv. Bartholine alleges the effusion of chyle to be a cause of asthmatic affection. In this case he sup- poses the rupture of a duct. Vide Specileg. 2 de Vasis Lymph, cap. 2. An extreme dryness of the parenchyma of the lungs has been well ascertained. Rhodius ^ as- serts that it has been occasioned by the profuse use of the decoction of guaiacum wood. Avicenna had remarked such a condition to arise from the hot vapour of furnaces and metallic fusions. HEURNiusf saw the lungs of a printer so altered as to appear, almost like a dried apple. Considerable deficiencies of substance have been >■ I. ■ ■■ ■ .iig.. * Cent. 2. Obs. xxi. f De Morb. Pectoris, cap. iv.