FATAL "ASTHMA"
- 29 May 1937
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 108 (22) , 1843-1850
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1937.02780220001001
Abstract
The original meaning of "asthma" was "panting," and today the term is being loosely applied to a variety of conditions: the so-called thymic, renal, cardiac, bronchial or other type of asthma. These may bear a slight resemblance to one another in some of their manifestations, yet they are very dissimilar in their etiology, mechanism and clinical course. Consequently, the term asthma has no universally recognized meaning or application.1Rackemann2advises one to regard the word as denoting a symptom and to think of it as in the same category with "headache" or "nausea" or even "angina." In the textbook by Norris and Landis,3one finds this comment: "By the term "bronchial asthma" is meant a form of paroxysmal dyspnea, the characteristic feature of which is a marked diminution or arrest of the respiratory movement with prolonged expiration: a condition sometimes referred to as spasmodic asthma." The hazardsKeywords
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