Excerpt from Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, Vol. 6First Idiopathic asthma, of which kind he enumerates eight varieties.Second - Symptomatic asthma, two varieties, viz 1. Gouty, asthma arthriticum; 2. Syphilitic, asthma venereum.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.