On asthma : its pathology and treatment / by Henry Hyde Salter.

  • Salter, Henry Hyde, 1823-1871.
Date:
1864
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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO TIIE TENABILITY OF THE THEORIES OF ASTHMA. Theory 1. That bronchial spasm is not necessarily present in asthma; Laennec's Asthma, -with puerile breathing; Copland's Nervous asthma; Walshe's Hrcmic asthma. These dyspnoeas not true asthma.—2. Dr. Bree's theory of a specific irritating mucus.—3. That asthma is the dyspnoea of bronchitis; the Bronchite a rales vibrants of M. Beau.—4. The Humoral theory.—5. Dr. Todd's theory of a poisoning of certain portions of the nervous centres, or nerves, of respiration, by a specific materies morbi.—6. That asthma is nothing but the dyspnoea of emphysema.—7. That the phenomena of asthma are due to spasm or paralysis of the respiratory muscles.—8. That asthma is paralysis of the bron- chial tubes.—9. That there is no such thing as asthma, as a substantive disease pp. 17—31 CHAPTER II. THE PATHOLOGY OF ASTHMA.—ITS ABSOLUTE NATURE. Asthma essentially a nervous disease.—The phenomena of asthma immediately de- pendent upon spastic contraction of the organic muscle of the bronchial tubes.— Evidence derived from the dyspnoea and sounds of asthma.—The four ways in ■which the bronchice may be narrowed.—The phenomena of asthma mostly excito- motory or reflex.—The portion of the nervous system involved differs in different cases, being sometimes restricted to that of the lungs themselves.—Different degrees of remoteness of irritant.—Irritant sometimes humoral; a contaminate pulmonary blood.—Physiological argument: Spasm-theory confirmed by the pur- poses of the bronchial muscle in health PP- 32—oo CHAPTER III. CLINICAL HISTORY OF ASTHMA.—PHENOMENA OF THE PAROXYSM. Premonitory and initiatory symptoms.—Drowsiness, dyspeptic symptoms, headache, excitability, profuse diuresis, nem-algic pains.—Time of attack, the early morn- ing; why ?—Description of access of paroxysm.—Appearance of the asthmatic