I have certainly seen several cases of asthma in which spasmodic pain of the heart has occurred on various occasions after or during a very severe asthmatic paroxysm.
A species of asthma having come to the assistance of the gout, the remedies of the physicians became as vain as the intercession of the monks and clergy, as well as the alms which were indiscriminately lavished.
Let us sit," said the old man; "the posture will better enable my failing ears to apprehend your meaning, and the asthma will deal with me more mercifully in permitting me to make you understand mine.
I treated six cases in all, four of which have been habitual for years to hay fever proper without complications, while the other two used to have the disease aggravated with reflex asthmaand bronchial catarrh.
In two cases, though no nasal symptoms developed, about two weeks after the calculated onset, slight symptoms ofasthma made their appearance.
He blamed the asthma as far as modesty would permit.
No wonder his best friends called him disparaging names; he was living up to the hardest of them now, and he with asthma on him as it was!
On the strength of anasthma cigarette and my poor wife’s dream?
The asthma specialist was one of those enterprising practitioners whose professional standing is never quite on a par with their material success.
It made Pocket feel a bit of a man; but then he really was almost seventeen, and in the Middle Fifth, and allowed to smoke asthma cigarettes in bed.
Is it not strange that your asthmahas entirely left you under my roof?
Baumgartner said they must hurry, and Pocket had his asthmaback in the first few yards.
The author of ‘Peripatetic Psychology’ deserves to have asthmaall his nights, and ‘After this Life’ smacks of the usual Schopenhauer and Lager.
It was a conclusion to which Mullins, with the facile conviction of his class, had jumped on the slender evidence of the asthma cigarette alone; but before midnight Thrush himself had been forced to admit its extreme probability.
I’ll go myself and ask for the asthmacigarettes that Dr.
There was a medicine cork as well as an asthma cigarette; the medicine cork had been found very much nearer the body; in fact, just across the pathway, under a shrub on the other side of the fence.
His asthma was a beast that always growled in the background; he never knew when it would spring upon him with a roar.
It’s harder to hide a man’s asthma than to hide the man himself.
You cannot sit up half your nights with asthma and be an average boy.
On the other hand, I shouldn’t be surprised if his asthma were to prove his best friend.
In a few of these latter cases, however, it was noted that the horse asthma did not begin until after there had been some terrifying experience in connection with the horse, as a runaway, a collision, or something of that kind.
In practically all these cases, the treatment of asthma becomes largely that of treating the accompanying dread.
Patients who have it are particularly likely to suffer from asthma if they have any dread of heart trouble or if they are of a nervous constitution.
Cat asthma is not very uncommon and occurs as a consequence of some contact by the individual with a specimen of the cat tribe though usually the large cats, the lions and tigers, do not cause it.
The spasm in asthma has a tendency to hold the lungs too full of air and produce the feeling of their getting ever fuller and fuller.
The picture of a man suffering from asthma is that of a patient so severely ill as to be very disturbing to one not accustomed to seeing it.
I have known people with the dread of the dark to get an attack of asthma if they were asked to sleep alone after having been accustomed for years to sleep with somebody in the room.
I have known even a physician to have attacks of asthma of quite typical character as the result of a dread of being {212} out after dark which had gradually come over him.
Nothing will be curative in asthma unless the patient has confidence in his power and uses his own will energy to help it.
The asthma from which he had so long suffered finally brought his life to an end.
Father Fray Juan was afflicted by an asthma so terrible that it seemed as if every night must be his last; and he felt the dreadful anxiety which accompanies this disease.
The storms were so furious, and the asthma from which the bishop suffered was so severe, that he departed this life on the way.
Thus it is plain to understand how chronic Pharyngitis, Laryngitis, Bronchitis, and Asthma may result from a small polypus in the nasal cavity.
After using the special medicines which he prepared for me for a few days I commenced to feel better, the shortness of breath gradually disappearing; the paroxysms of asthma were less frequent and not so severe.
I now call myself cured, for I have not had asthma for a long time.
Gentlemen--My wife was afflicted with asthma for twenty years: as she grew older she grew worse.
Persons affected with asthma or phthisic are numerous.
Then, too, my wife had a bad case of Asthma which was cured by the use of that wonderful blood-purifier.
A severe paroxysm of asthma is very distressing to witness, and one unused to it might well suppose the sufferer to be in his last agonies.
Many cases suffering only mild symptoms for the first few seasons, annually become aggravated until severe spasmodic asthma is a regular, and sometimes continuous complication.
Sam felt it and hastened on apologetically-- "Er ef you want to go it one better, keep on yer good cloes an' have the asthma bad.
She says young Doctor Brown says if he comes out on top about that crick-cure for asthma Amelia can do anythin' she pleases.
Major Roper does not get through the whole of the last word--asthma forbids it--but his meaning is clear.
Bronchitis andasthma are kittle-cattle to shoe behind, even where the sweet Mediterranean air blows pure upon Rapallo and Nervi, but what manner of cattle are they in a London fog?
I found him afflicted with asthmaand dropsy, supposed to be the effect of an imposthume in his liver.
The direct treatment of the respiratory tract to secure ease of respiration often does away with the liability to asthmaby direct prevention.
The medicines that are especially effective in asthma of neurotic origin are those which also have a large suggestive influence because of their taste or their effects upon the system.
Some years ago I repeatedly saw a young gentleman who invariably had an attack ofasthma if he went near a stable or a horse.
In symptomatic asthma the only assured treatment of the condition must come through amelioration of the organic condition causing the symptoms.
His friend was insistently clamoring for air with that tone of despair and {366} dread of impending death so characteristic of the young, inexperienced asthma sufferer.
In the medical literature of asthma there are abundant proofs that the attitude of mind of the patient towards his affection means very much.
In connection with these the so-called asthma crystals first described by Charcot and Von Leyden and sometimes called by their combined names are often found.
Cardiac and renal asthma respond promptly to remedies which relieve critical conditions that may be present in the heart or kidneys.
Where there is intense occupation of mind, especially if combined with the suggestion that now the asthma ought to be better, seizures will be less frequent and less severe.
Essential asthma is not dependent on any organic condition, but is an interference with breathing without any distinct pathological condition in the lungs themselves or in the general circulation.
Kate shook her head over Mom’s asthma and said she’d get over it if she ate cottage cheese every day.
Aunt Kate gives me a can of cat food and a box of litter, so Cat can stay in my room, because I remember Mom probably gets asthma from animals, too.
In the apartment—we live right in the middle of New York City—we don’t have any heavy drapes or rugs, and Mom never fries any food because the doctors figure dust and smoke make her asthma worse.
Mom’s been having asthma a good deal lately, and we’re all pretty jumpy.
What value, for instance, might there be in the afore-mentioned case of asthma and hysterical attacks of fear?
Gradually a nervous asthma develops, attacks of which also come on during the day.
Excessive fatness, with its attendant asthma and hollow cough, are to be directly traced to a disordered digestion.
It's no use to give yourself a fit of asthma by following him.
Asthma is spasm of the bronchial tubes, and when it is thoroughly established it is seldom to be cured.
What would poor Mr. Haskins do--and his wife laid up with asthma so's you could hear her wheeze away down the lane!
I can scarcely breathe, my asthma quite chokes me.
He said to me, 'My asthma is coming on again; I must have two or three days' rest.
There is an asthma that will scarcely let me breathe, and a racking pain in my head that does not allow me a moment's ease.
A rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma that his mother could afford.
Yesterday the asthma remitted, perceptibly remitted, and I moved with more ease than I have enjoyed for many weeks.
The relaxation of theasthma still continues, yet I do not trust it wholly to itself, but soothe it now and then with an opiate.
My dropsy is gone, and my asthma much remitted, but I have felt myself a little declining these two days, or at least to-day; but such vicissitudes must be expected.
Of the hydropick tumour there is now very little appearance; the asthma is much less troublesome, and seems to remit something day after day.
My diseases are anasthma and a dropsy, and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
All has been hitherto misery accumulated upon misery, disease corroborating disease, till yesterday my asthma was perceptibly and unexpectedly mitigated.
I am still restless, still weak, still watery, but the asthma is less oppressive.
Soon after Johnson's return to the metropolis, both the asthmaand dropsy became more violent and distressful.
I am now looking into Floyer[1094] who lived with his asthma to almost his ninetieth year.
Mr Thornycroft had been ailing with his asthma so long, and making so little fuss about it, that his friends had come to regard him as practically ailing nothing.
He spoke with the asthma pant, and a throb of the lean throat that she could not bear to see.
I haven't been very bad--just the old asthma off and on.
On the second evening after his arrival there he complained of asthma and pain in his arm, and retired about 9 o'clock p.
This is balanced by the evidence of others, who testify that the claimant had asthma before enlistment.
It states that by accidentally curing a case of asthma by "fooling with the bones of the chest," he was led to the belief that bones out of normal position cause disease.
When I left the presence of the man now dead he seemed to be in as good health as his asthma would allow.
He was not so well as usual, but she had known the asthma more troublesome.
As a rule, spasmodic asthmadoes not kill directly.
In a paroxysm of coughing, something in the head or chest may give way, but asthma itself does not kill.
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