Show cost coat of a cough A patient german statistician hal baa calculated that a patient who coughs cough once every quarter of an hour for ten hours expends energy equi equivalent ta to two hundred and fifty units of heat which may be ba translated as equlla i lent jent to the nourishment contained i in three eggs or two glasses of 0 milk in afi normal respiration theair the air Is expelled groin from the chest at atthe the rate of tour four feet per second whereas in violent coughing it may attain a velocity elo city of three hundred feet this waste of energy Is especially important because inoc itoc it occurs for the most part la in persons persona whose assimilative functions are already working under difficult difficulties les consequently the ingestion Ingest lon of the corresponding sp quantity of nourishment by no means compensates for the exertion it follows that pers persistent isten t cough Is per se a cadde of emaciation though there are many other factors which tend in the same direction hence the desirability of restraining cough with I 1 in safe limits especially when it isda Is due e to reflexes x eg such as are excited by and from the medical critic cad globe |