may develop in children or adults after a cold or other airway irritant. Similar symptoms of habit cough have been reported in adults and may be the same disorder as is seen in children or adolescents.

Classification and name

History

A medical textbook from 1685 by Thomas Willis, (1621-1675) described an adult woman with "a violent dry cough following her day and night, unless she was fallen asleep," a

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