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Excerpt from The Western Lancet and Hospital Reporter, 1852, Vol. 13 Symptoms. - The symptoms of chronic bronchitis are ex tremely variable, depending ]ar ely on the intensity of mor bid action. The lowest grade 0t excitement that receives the name of bronchitis, is an apyrexial disease, characterized by occasional cough and expectoration, manifesting a tendency, under favorable circumstances, to almost entire cessation, but readily reproduced and increased on exposure to a variable or cold atmosphere. In persons thus affected, but little disease ma be manifested during warm weather; but when the cold an variable season of wmter sets in, all of the symptoms are liable to great aggravation, the cough becomin more constant and distressing. These annual remissions an exacerbations may continue for ears in succession, the former becoming less com letc, an the latter more protracted and intense until fina ly the disease becomes fully developed, and the most serious lesions are roduced. In a case of me ium intensity from the beginning, there is some degree of febrile excitement, with evenin exacerbations; together with more or less mucous, muco-puru eat, or albumi nous sputa. The cough is generally paroxysmal, and varies greatly in intensity; tightness and soreness of the chest are often complained of, to ether with wandering pains and em barrassed respiration. He degree to which respiration is im peded, varies great] in different examples, and is produced by different lesions. Here the nervous clement predominates, causing undue contraction of the parts, it becomes simply asthmatic, and occurs in paroxysms; but it may de mi on permanent lesions, such as obstruction or dilatation of t e bron chi, colla as of the air-cells, and emphysema; and it is then more fixe and uniform, though still manifesting appreciable exacerbations and remissions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.