"Asthma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... much from asthma, and the gravel pits of Kensington were then considered very healthy, and combined the advantages of not being very far from town with the pure air of the country. Of course, the house had to be enlarged in order to be suitable for a royal ...
— The Kensington District - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... had a mare—the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because of course she was faster than that—and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag end of the race she get excited and desperate like, and come cavorting and straddling up, and scattering ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... asthma so bad that I can't breathe." "Well, my dear, I wouldn't try; nobody wants ...
— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various
... circle and praised loud Till checked, taught what to see and not to see, Being simple bodies,—"That's the very man! Look at the boy who stoops to pat the dog! That woman's like the Prior's niece who comes {170} To care about his asthma: it's the life!" But there my triumph's straw-fire flared and funked; Their betters took their turn to see and say: The prior and the learned pulled a face And stopped all that in no time. "How? what's here? Quite from the mark of painting, bless us all! Faces, arms, legs, and bodies like the true ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... squills 2 drms., powdered assafoetida 1 drachm, mix and divide into 30 pills, two to be taken twice or thrice a day. Useful in chronic asthma. ...
— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young
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