Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-20
". n. DAVIS, Md,
NJ. C. P. s. o.,
Graduate Of Chicago Homeopathic Col
lege, Chicago, and College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons of Ontario,
Toronto, Cspada.
DIPLOMAS HANG IN OFFICE.
BRONCHITIS.


inflammation of mucous membrane of
bronchial tubes. This disease may exist In
either tue acute or chronic forms.
Acute Bronchitis, like other infiamatory
affections of the chest. generally arises as
II accompanied with damp. or OF sudden
change from a heated to a cool atmosphere
The symptoms vary according to the severi-
ty of the attack, and more especially accord
ing to the extent to which the infamatGry
action spreads IN the bronchial tubes. The
disease usu4 ally manifests itself at first in the
form of catarrh, or common cold, but the
accompanying feverishpess and general con
stitutional distu !banee proclaim the attack
to be something more severe, and 81 mptoms
denoting the onset of bronchitis soon pre-
sent themselves. A short, painful, dry
cough, accompanied with rapid aud wheez-
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.
Ia some cases, from the first, symptoms of
superadded, and greatly aggrsvate the pa
After few days expectoration begins 10
come with the cough, at first scsnty and Wis
cid or frothy. but soon becoming coptous
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 convsl-
escence advances, and the patient Is ulti-
mately restored to health, although there Is
not unfrequently left a tendency to recur-
renee of the disease on exposure TO It's ex-
citing causes.
Chronic Bronchitis may arise as the result
OF repeated attacks of the acute form, or 1t
may exist altogether Independently. II oc-
ours more frequently among persons ad-
vanced in life than among the young, al
taevh ma a.
frequently occurs from the extension OF
catarrh of the throat to the bronchial tuoes.
The usual history of this form OF bronchi-
tbs is that OF a cough recurring during the
colder seasons OF the yea, and in Its earlier
stages, departing entirelyin summer, so that
1t Is often called winter cough" In many
persons subject to 1t, however, attacks are
apt to be excllei at any time by very slight
causes, such ~ changes in the weather; and
In advanced cases of the disease the cough
is seldom altogether absent febrile dis
turbance is less marked than In the acute
form of bronchitis. The cough is usually
more troublesome in the morning than dur
ing the day. There is usually free and CO.
pious expecteratiun, ami occasionally this
Is so nbundan, as 10 constitute br0nchofred.
The expectoraliOn is Often fotid.
Chronic bronchitis is liable in some IN,
stances, particularly when accompanied
with loss Of fesh aud strength, TO be mis-
taken for eonsum ption.
Treatment-The benefit of medical inhal-
ations combined with constitutional reme-
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 expeeto-
ra ton and ease the cough. The deep In
SEPARATION that is necessary when using the
inhaler forces the medieated ali past any
mucous obstruction, opens and heals air
cells that have become collapsed and in
few days patients always experience less
difficulty in breathing.
II impossible to cal. at office, treatise
will be sent upon application.
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