...advantage of the many. We now propose to give a resume of some of the chief views and descriptions of Dr. Salter. With respect to the pathology, the...air-passages themselves. 5. That in a large number of cases the pneumogastric .nerve, both in its gastric and pulmonary portions, is the seat of the disease....

...phenomena of asthma — the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the fibre-cells of organic or unstripped muscle, which minute anatomy has demonstrated to exist in the bronchial tubes. 3. That these...

...phenomena of asthma — the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the...phenomena are those of excito-motory or reflex action. differs very much in different cases, being in some cases restricted to the nervous system of the air-passages...

...asthma—the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts—immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the fibre-cells...has demonstrated to exist in the bronchial tubes. " 1. That asthma is essentially, and with perhaps the exception of a single class of cases, exclusively,...

...respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the fibre-cells of organic muscle, which minute anatomy has demonstrated to exist in the bronchial tubes. Although this is a proposition that many perhaps might think it hardly worth while to set about proving,...

...phenomena of asthma — the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the...some cases restricted to the nervous system of the air-pass.-iges themselves. "5. That in a large number of cases the pncumogastric nerve, both in its...

...phenomena of asthma — the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the fibre-cells of organic or unstripped muscle, which minute anatomy has demonstrated to exist in the bronchial tubes. 3. That these...

...distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts— immediately depend npon a spastic contraction of the fibrecells of organic...air-passages themselves. 5. That in a large number of cases the pneumogastric nerve, both in its gastric and pulmonary portions, is the seat of the disease....

...phenomena of asthma — the distressing sensation and the demand for extraordinary respiratory efforts — immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the...in the bronchial tubes. 3. That these phenomena are thobe of excito-motory or reflex action. 36 ASTHMA. 5. That in a large number of cases the pneumogastric...

...extraordinary respiratory efforts, immediately depend upon a spastic contraction of the fibrecells of organic muscle, which minute anatomy has demonstrated to exist in the bronchial tubes." Again, at page 35 Solter says — " The wheezing of asthma, then, is as positive evidence of bronchial...