I recognise that cough

'He stopped. His expression changed. He began to cough. It was the most extraordinary cough I had ever heard in my life, and for a moment I couldn’t believe it was coming from him. It sounded like a klaxon, and from the way he bounced up and down in the chair, as if he were setting it on and off. I got up in alarm and patted him on the back. He began waving his hands towards the bed presently, and I looked around and saw bottles on his bedside table, and brought them all to him with a spoon. He pointed one out with a shaking hand, and I uncorked it and poured him out a spoonful – and one for the carpet in my excitement – and got it in his mouth. He managed to control himself for a moment, and presently began pointing silently under the bed.'

 Lionel, Davidson. “Rose of Tibet.” Faber & Faber,

Anyone in the Alpha community would recognise this description.  I am interested in literary descriptions of COPD and possible alpha 1 instances as i think it helps explain the condition to others.  The book is a pretty good thriller by the way, davidson wrote Kolymsky Heights which was recently reissued and which I greatly enjoyed.