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a cure for confumption is not fo totally ineffectual, as is now 

 commonly believed. 



J. C. aged 27, with black hair, and a ruddy complexion, was 

 fubjecl; to cough from the age of puberty, and occafionally to 

 fpitting of blood. His maternal grandfather died of confump- 

 tion under thirty years of age, and his mother fell a victim to 

 this difeafe, with which (he had long been threatened, in her 

 43d year, and immediately after (he ceafed to have children. In 

 the fevere winter of 1783-4, he was much afflicted with cough ; 

 and being expofed to intenfe cold, in the month of February he 

 was feized with peripneumony. The difeafe wr.s violent and 

 dangerous, and after repeated bleedings as well as blifterings, 

 which he fupported with difficulty, in about fix weeks he was 

 able to leave his bed. At this time the cough was fevere, and 

 the expectoration difficult. A fixed pain remained on the left 

 fide, where an iflue was inferted ; regular hectic came on every 

 day about an hour after noon, and every night heat and reftleiT- 

 nefs took place, fucceeded towards morning by general perfpi- 

 ration. 



The patient, having formerly been fubject to ague, was ftruck 

 with the refemblance of the febrile paroxyfm, with what he had 

 experienced under that difeafe, and was willing to flatter himfelf it 

 might be of the fame nature. He therefore took bark in the in- 

 terval of fever, but with an increafe of his cough, and this requir- 

 ing venefection, the blood was found highly inflammatory. The 

 vafl quantity of blood which he had loft from time to time, pro- 

 duced a difpofition to fainting, when he refumed the upright 

 pofture, and he was therefore obliged to remain almoft conftant- 

 ly in a recumbent pofition. Attempting to ride out in a carriage, 

 he was furprifed to find that he could fit upright for a confider- 

 able time, while in motion, without inconvenience, though, on 

 flopping the carriage, the difpofition to fainting returned. 



At this time, having prolonged his ride beyond the ufual 

 length, he one day got into an uneven road at the ufual period 

 of the recurrence of the hectic paroxyfms, and that day he miff- 

 ed it altogether. This circumftance led him to ride out daily 

 in a carriage at the time the febrile acceffion might be expected, 

 and fometimes by this means it was prevented, fometimes de- 

 ferred, and almoft always mitigated. 



This experience determined him to undertake a journey of 

 fome length, and Briftol being, as is ufual in fuch cafes, recom- 

 mended, he fet out on the 19th of April, and arrived thereon 

 the 2d of May. During the greater part of this journey (of 

 375 miles) his cough was fevere, and being obliged to be bled 

 three different times on the road, he was no longer able to fit up- 

 right, 



