A treatise of the asthma
Subtitle: Divided into four parts. In the first is given a history of the fits, and the symptoms preceeding them. In the second, the cacochymia which disposes to the fit, and the rarefaction of the spirits which produces it, are described. In the third, the accidental causes of the fit, and the symptomatic asthmas are observed. In the fourth, the cure of the astma [sic] fit, and the method of preventing it is proposed ...
Edition: The second edition, corrected ...
Publisher: Printed for R. Wilkin, and W. Innys
Published: 1717
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Asthma; Early works to 1800; Medicine
Notes: Wellcome cat. of printed books, III, p. 34

ESTC (RLIN) T149465

Autograph of Richard Cranch; autograph and bookplate of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. A history of the fits, and the symptoms preceding them; title: pt. 2. The cacochymia, which disposes to the fit, and the rarefaction of the spirits, which produces it, are described; title: pt. 3. The accidental causes of the fit, and the symptomatic asthmas are observed; title: pt. 4. The cure of the asthma fit, and the method of preventing it is proposed; to which is annext a digression about the several species of acids distinguished by their tastes; and 'tis observed how far they were thought convenient or injurious in general practice, by the old writers, and most particularly, in relation to the cure of asthma.