An essay on bronchitis Author:Charles Badham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. Opinions of the Modern Systematici on Bronchial Affections. To extend a little farther the rapid glance we proposed to take of the history of med... more »ical opinion respecting bronchial complaints, we shall now notice with the same brevity those of the best modern Systematics on the subject of our Enquiry. In the System of Frederic Hoffmann, a work of much talent and extensive observatioo, there are various passages which belong to this subject. Of theCatarrhus suffocativus he relates, that it chiefly destroys the aged, the infirm, and infants ; and attributes it to a paralytic affection of the nerves which belong to the organs of respi- ration . His description of the symptoms is obviously tlie fruit of personal observation. " Trahitur in hoc tnorbo suinma cum difficuU tatc et anxietate spirit us, et quia bronchiis, sece- dente a sanguine bumore viscido seroso, repletis, tiiliil tamen sputi rejicitur aer admissus strepitum ct ronchuin in fistulis edit, donee praecluso peni- tus aerc, aeger eufTocetur. Quod antiquam cvenit pulsus aliquot sa;pe ante horis interniittit, srnsim gra/;ilcscit pcnitusque iuterridit : non nunquam etiam mentis turbatio cum extremornm.fngore supervenit.—Med. Rat. Syst. sect. ;i.. 17. Xti.—No writer but Hoffmann lias remark- 1 this last, which is, howcrer, only an occasional symptom. The description of a disease under the name of Peripneumonia notha, which we owe to the illustrious Sy- denham, has been regarded (perhaps erroneously) as an original account of an affection of the lungs not previously known. He appears rather to have represented with greater fidelity and correctness than others the sub-inflammatory affection of the bronchi®. One of the causes which may occasion difference between his account and those of other write...« less