dyspnoea

• “No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion -- so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him -- it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea {2} and death from cardiac exhaustion.”

  Fictionaut: The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars

• “When in a fever not of the intermittent type dyspnoea and delirium come on, the case is mortal.”

  Aphorisms

• “They form in the inferior parts when there is a collection of phlegm about the hypochondria; and in the upper when the continue soft and free of pain, and when dyspnoea having been present for a certain time, ceases without any obvious cause.”

  The Book Of Prognostics

• “And they are under the necessity of keeping the neck bent forward at the great vertebra, in order that their head may not hang downward; this, therefore, occasions great contraction of the pharynx by its inclination inward; for, even in those who are erect in stature, dyspnoea is induced by this bone inclining inward, until it be restored to its place.”

  On The Articulations

• “In February, 2004, we saw a 40-year-old obese white woman who complained of dyspnoea shortness of breath. 5 days earlier, her appetite had decreased, and she had felt nauseous and had since vomited four to six times daily.”

  Low-carb diet takes one below the belt | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

• “With the first warm weather, when the pear trees began to blossom, she suffered from dyspnoea.”

  Madame Bovary

• “In my case, what was physically evident might equally well have been due to nervous spasms, to the first stages of tuberculosis, to asthma, to a toxi-alimentary dyspnoea with renal insufficiency, to chronic bronchitis, or to a complex state into which more than one of these factors entered.”

  Within a Budding Grove

• “Symptoms of HCN poisoning include respiratory dyspnoea, intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, a staggering gait, convulsions and violent death.”

  Chapter 2

• “Symptoms of HCN poisoning are due to oxygen starvation at the cellular level and include laboured breathing (dyspnoea), intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, convulsions and a staggering gait.”

  Chapter 4

• “The symptoms always show certain general characteristics: lowered blood pressure, paralysis of the higher brain functions, dyspnoea, low temperature, etc.”

  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1913 - Presentation Speech

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