Medical-drama scenes that need a patient struggling for breath fail most often not on the actor but on the foley — and lungs are stubbornly hard to record at the right distance. 26 clips here treat the body as an instrument: a wet productive cough at close range, dry hacking from the back of the throat, bronchial wheeze on inhale, slow laboured breathing with audible rales, and short panicked gasps for trauma scenes. Each take is dry and centred, with the mic placed where a stethoscope would sit, not where a boom would reach.
Hospital and emergency-room scenes use the wheeze and rale material under dialogue without distracting from it. Training videos for nursing students grab the cough variants by type — wet, dry, productive — because the distinction matters clinically. Sound designers on horror projects use the laboured breathing layered low under a tense interior. Pull whatever the scene needs free, no attribution required, suitable for documentary, training and dramatic work alike.