Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-28
DIPLOMAS HANG IN OFFICE.
BRONCHITIS.

inflammation of mucus membrane of
bronchial tubes. This disease may exist in
either toe acute or lronic forms.
Acute Bronchitis, like other intamatory
affections of the chest, generally arises as
the result of exposure to cold, particularly
If accompanied with damp. or OF sudden
change from heated to cool atmosphere.
The symptoms vary according to the severi-
ty of the attack, and more especially accord
ing to the extent to which the inhamat(.ry
action spreads IN the bronchial tubes. The
disease usu ally manifests itself at first in the
form OF catarrh, or common cold, but the
accompanying feverishness and general con
stitutional distu ,bance proclaim the attack
to be something more severe, and symptoms
denoting the onset of bronchitis soon pre-
sent themselves. A short. painful, dry
ing respiration. feeling Of rawness and pain
in the throat and behind the breast bone,
and OF oppression or tightness throughout
the chest mark the early stages of the dis
ease.
In some cases, from the first, symptoms OF
the form OF asthma known as bronchitis,are
superadded. and greatly aggravate the pa
Aftera few days expectoration begins 10
come with the cough, at first scanty and WIS.,
cid or frothy, but soon becoming copi0us
and OF purulent character. In general after
free expectoration has been established the
more urgent and painful symptoms abate
and while the cough may persist for length
OF time, often extending for three or four
weeks, in the majority of instances conval-
escence advances, and the patient is ulti-
mately restored to health, although there Is
not unfrequently left tendency to recur
renee OF the disease on exposure to its ex-
citing causes.
Chronic Bronchitis may arise as the result
of repeated attacks of the acute form, or IL
may exist altogether independently. II oc-
ours more frequently among persons ad-
vanced in life than among the young, al
though no age is exempt from it. 1t also
| frequently occurs from the extension OF
| catarrh of the throat to the bronchial tubes.
The usual history OF this formsof bronchi-
| tbs is that OF cough recurring during the
| colder seasons oil the yea, and in Its earlier
stages, departing entirelyin summer. so that
| II is often called winter cough" In many
persons subject to II, however, attacks are
apt to be excited Mt any time by very slight
| causes such as changes in the weather; and
| in advanced eases Of the disease the cough
| is seldom altogether absent. Febrlle dis
! turbance Is less marked than in the acute
| form of bronchitis. The cough is usual y
more Troublesome In the morning than dur
| ing the day. There is usually free and co
| pious expectoration, and occasionally this
| Is so abundant as to constitute bronchorred
| The expectoration is often fmtid.
Chronic bronchitis is liable in some in
stances, particularly when accompanied
| with loss of flesh aud strength, TO be mis-
Treatment-Tke benefit OF medical inhal
| atfons combined with constitutional RENE
dies is more marked in this than in any
other disease of the air passages:
The healing remedies are carried directly
to the seat OF the disease. facilitate expecto
ration and ease the cough The deep in
| SEPARATION that Is necessary when using the
inhaler forces the medicated al. past any
/ mucous obstruction, opens and heals ali
cells that have become collapsed and in 4
| few days patients always experience lesi
| difficulty In breathing.
| II impossible to call at office, treatise
| will be sent upon application.