In the spasmodic form the symptoms were of a nervous character.
In cases of whooping-cough or any other condition in which there is spasmodic action of the muscular fibre in the bronchia definition which includes nearly every form of asthma and many cases of bronchitis - atropine is an almost invaluable drug.
It is full of choreographed hysteria and spasmodic movement.
The right-hand column, which had cut in behind the Italian 43rd Div., was making the task of the Austrian 50th comparatively easy, and brushing aside the spasmodic opposition of such small detachments as came in its way.
His accession occurred in 1256, and henceforward Persia becomes after 600 years of spasmodic government a national unit.