A Practical Inquiry on Disordered Respiration; Distinguishing, the species of convulsive asthma, their causes and indications of cure.

A remarkable and very scarce early edition of this British physician's study of asthma and its causes, in which he uses his own experiences as a case study. The very scarce third edition of English physician Robert Bree's study of the respiratory system, first published in 1797.With chronic asthma requiring Bree to retire from his medical practice in 1793, he used his own medical condition as a case study for this work, with a particular emphasis on the psychological details of the disease, which he viewed as a symptom of other disorder's rather than an illness unto itself.This third edition is corrected and enlarged, with a lengthy appendix appearing to the rear.The most complete study of asthma that had ever appeared at the time of publication, Bree's study is remarkable for his view that attacks could be precipitated by a situation in which memory or emotion of a previous attack were recalled. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Rubbing to joints, with boards holding firm. Bumping to board perimeters, with losses to leather and paper in these regions. Internally, firmly bound. Tide marks to tail of majority of leaves, with spotting throughout. Good.…