[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bronchitis"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 31 19:32:28 UTC 2016


bronchitis (OED 1814)

This term is used, and perhaps coined, in Charles Badham, Observations on the inflammatory affections of the mucous membrane of the bronchiae (1808).

Fred Shapiro

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