"In the end of this year he was seized with a spasmodic asthma of such violence that he was confined to the house in such great pain, being sometimes obliged to sit all night in his chair, a recumbent posture being so hurtful to his respiration that he could not endure lying in bed; and there came upon him at the same time that oppressive and fatal disease, a dropsy."
- Boswell, James (1791) The Life of Samuel Johnson
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