E. R., set. 6, the child of a dock labourer, was admitted into the Children's Hospital, under my care, with the following history: For the last six months she had been gradually losing her voice, and her breathing had become bad. She had no cough in the daytime, but at night would get attacks of dyspnoea and coughing. She never had suffered from croup, but three years ago had a sharp attack of ...

To determine whether a model could be established for laboratory investigations, nine squirrel monkeys were inoculated intratracheally with 10(7) median egg-infectious doses of influenza virus type A/New Jersey/8/76 (HSW1N1) (swine influenza virus). They responded with clinically detectable illness including fever, leukopenia, decreased food consumption, increased respiratory rate, occasional c...

A sepoy, 2nd Regiment M. N. I., aged 42, service 21 years, had been lately under treatment for fever of a continued type with himbrici, and after being discharged from Hospital 20 days was suddenly attacked, after his evening meal, with such dyspnoea and violent coughing that lie was obliged to go to the Kegimental Hospital, whero he was admitted under the head of bronchitis, and after 6 days w...

The objective was to report the first pathologically confirmed case of partly functionally preserved medulla oblongata in a patient with catastrophic traumatic brain injury.A patient is described with epidural haematoma with normal breathing and blood pressure and a retained coughing reflex brought on only by catheter suctioning of the carina. Multiple contusions in the thalami and pons were fo...

dirofilaria immitis is a filariid worm which typically lives as adult in the right ventricle of the heart and the pulmonary arteries of the dog, causing the canine heartworm disease.therapy of canine dirofilariosis due to dirofilaria immitis is indicated for dogs suffering from clinical signs of the disease (such as chronic cough). the present paper describes diagnostic and treatment features o...

BACKGROUND A substantial proportion of patients with neuromuscular disease (NMD) who undergo positive pressure ventilation via endotracheal intubation for acute respiratory failure fail to pass spontaneous breathing trials and should be considered at high risk for extubation failure. In our study, we prospectively investigated the efficacy of early application of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) c...

of coughing, and sweated profusely, especially at nights. On examining the chest I found signs of fluid at the right base, and on 12th February 1882 removed by aspiration 12 oz. of pus. At first he was entirely relieved, but by the fourth day his difficulty in breathing had in great part returned, and fluid was reaccumulating in the chest. After this he gradually recovered, and by the middle of...

airway mucus hypersecretion health effects caused by air pollutants may range from subtle biochemical or physiological signs, such as mildly reduced lung function, to difficult breathing, wheezing, coughing and exacerbation of existing respiratory conditions such as asthma. the aim of this study was measuring the adverse health effects of air pollution on lung function of primary school student...