Observations on the history and cause of asthma : and a review of A practical enquiry on disordered respiration, in a letter to Robert Bree, M.D., the author of that work / by George Lipscomb.

  • Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.
Date:
1800
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    difeafe, or by a deficiency of any of the materials neceflary to be employed in digeftion, ihould have become incapable of performing that procefs, even for the fiiorteft fpace of time, while fubftances which might otherwife be converted into chyle, re- main in it; a fermentation takes place, by which an acid is necejfarily difengaged:—“ the formation of acid * being always produced by the digeftion not going on perfectly.” Acid, therefore, may be formed in very con- fiderable quantity; and it may be ejefted through the intettines, in confequence of the irritation which is produced by it, or by the procefs which takes place at its formation. But it may alfo be retained in the ftomiach and inteftines, till the ablbrbents, being ftimulated, convey it with the chyle into the bjood veffels. Among all thofe circumftances which are laid to produce a prcdifpofition to Afthma, Dylpeply ftands foremoft. Dyfpepfia is a condition of the ‘'habit which will be found always to h-iLVQ preced- “ ed the periodic Afthmaf.” Permanent Dylpepfy is that ftate in which a great quantity of acid is (extricated from the undigefted aliment;—■—the ^cid thus formed, I confider, therefore, to be the ual caufe of Afthma; and it is certainly no ob- ^ Fordyce on the Digeftion of Food. See alfo Spallanzani on Digeftion. f PrafticallEnquiry, 217* .. jedion