ASTHMA.
§ 9. The true spasmodic asthma, a rare disease—is not relieved by Digitalis.
§ 10. In the greater part of what are called asthmatical cases, the real disease is anasarca of the lungs, and is generally to be cured by diuretics. (See [§ 1].) This is almost always combined with some swelling of the legs.
§ 11. There is another kind of asthma, in which change of posture does not much affect the patient. I believe it to be caused by an infarction of the lungs. It is incurable by diuretics; but it is often accompanied with a degree of anasarca, and so far it admits of relief.
Is not this disease similar to that in the limbs at ([§ 3],) and also to that of the abdominal viscera at ([§ 2].)?