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The EPA said that both times, the state recorded high levels of particulate matter, which can cause heart attacks, asthmas and chronic health conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
The Leaves and Flowers.—A tea made of the fresh tops of thyme is good in asthmas and diseases of the lungs.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
Oh! ye, who pine, in London smoke immured, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncured, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatism, coughs, blue devils!
From Poems (1828) by Thomas Gent
A great many contracted asthmas and other diseases of the lungs, by inhaling steam.
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
The asthmas, which have been induced in consequence of the recess of eruptions, especially of the leprous kind, countenance this opinion.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
