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:
1815
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Credit: A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure / by Robert Bree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Species of the Disease is a subordinate object of attention; and if it were proved to be a cause by every other mode of evidence, de- monstration would be still demanded before a material excretion, obvious to the senses, would be preferred to the theory of an in- visible action that had rivetted the attention of the Schools. I therefore took the aid of dissections, to which I owe a part of the facts leading to a conclusion. It may be said, that the appearances in these dissections did not belong to cases of Convulsive Asthma, or that they were effects of the disease: but compare them with the description of C^lius Ay re 14- anus, and afterwards with that of Dr. Bed- does, in the instance of Mr. Bay nton’s patient, and the identity will be manifest. Will the objectors to minute inquiry see no advantage in this coincidence of character and description ? and, if they do, is it a mat- ter of indifference that the ancients should be examined for the purpose of recQvering a