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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    That the absorbent vessels are equally excited when the liiiigs are threatened with suftbcation, ap- pears from the observation of Mr. Cruikshank.* I have repeatedly seen in animals dying of ha^moptoCj and in the human subject itself,, the Ivmphatics of the luiigS;, which at other times con- tain a transparent tiuid, turgid with blood;, which they had absorbed from tlie air ceils.’' Muscular motions performed with unusual energy are therefore strong indications of some injury to be averted^ or some offence to be removed. And;, as in the Periodic Asthma, tlie cause is not so clear as in the Continued Species, I shall take advantage of these indications, as the best direction which an * obscure disease affords. These indications seem in the first place to point out a cause of Irritation in the lungs; or, in the next place, a cause of irritation in some of the abdominal viscera, since these in common with the lungs, are aided in their functions bv the action of ^ 1/ the respiratory muscles. As it appears also from the preceding sections, that such irritation may be material, we should * On the absorbent vessels,p. 42.