25® DISEASES Class II. i. 6. 7. 



has lately been introduced into practice by Dr. Smith, (EfTay on. 

 Pulmonary Confumption), who obferved that by fwinging the 

 hectic pulfe became flower, which is explained in Clafs IV. 2. 

 1 . 10. The ufual way of reciprocating fwinging, like the of-* 

 cillations of a pendulum, produces a degree of vertigo in thofe, 

 who are unufed to it j but to give it greater effect, the patient 

 fhould be placed in a chair fufpended from the ceiling by two 

 parallel cords in contact with each other, the chair fhould then 

 be forcibly revolved 20 or 40 times one way, and fuffered to re- 

 turn fpontaneoufly ; which induces a degree of ficknefs in molt 

 adult people, and is well worthy an exact and pertinacious trial, 

 for an hour or two, three or four times a day for a month. 



The common means of promoting abforption in ulcers, and 

 of thickening the matter in confequencc, by taking the bark 

 and opium internally, or by metallic falts, as of mercury, 

 fteel, zinc, and copper, in fmall quantities, have been repeatedly 

 ufed in pulmonary confumption ; and may have relieved fome 

 of the fymptoms. As mercury cures venereal ulcers, and as pul- 

 monary ulcers refemble them in their not having a difpofition to 

 heal, and in their tendency to enlarge themfelves, there were 

 hopes, from analogy, that it might have fucceeded. Would a 

 folution of gold in aqua regia be worth trying ? When vinegar 

 is applied to the lips, it renders them inflantly pale, by promo- 

 ting the venous abforption ; if the whole Ikin was moiftened with 

 warmifh vinegar, would this promote venous abforption in the 

 lungs by their fympathy with the Ikin ? The veryabftemious di- 

 et on milk and vegetables alone is frequently injurious. Flefh 

 meat once a day, with fmall wine and water, or fmall beer, is pref- 

 erable. Half a grain of opium twice a day, or a grain, I believe 

 to be of great ufe at the commencement of the difeafe, as appears 

 from the fublequent cafe. 



Mifs , a delicate young lady, of a confumptive family, 



when fhe was about eighteen, had frequent cough, with quick 

 pulfe, a pain of her fide, and the general appearances of a begin- 

 ning confumption. She took about five drops of laudanum 

 twice a day in a faline draught, which was increafed gradually to 

 ten. In a few weeks (he recovered, was afterwards married, 

 bore three or four children, and then became confumptive and 

 died. 



The following cafe of hereditary comfumption is related by 

 a phyfician of great ability and very extenfive practice •, and, as 

 it is his own cafe, abounds with much nice observation and ufe- 

 ful knowledge ; and, as it has been attended with a favourable 

 event, may give confolation to many, who are in a fimilar fitua- 

 ticjj and mews that Sydenham's recommendation of riding as 



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