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very little moderate puking, and a kind of prickly 
sensation through the whole system, even to the 
extremities of the fingers and toes. But all 
these sensations very soon subsided, and a vigour 
seemed to be restored to the constitution, which I 
had not experienced for years. 1 haye not since 
had a paroxysm, and only a few times some small 
symptoms of asthma. Besides the violent at- 
tacks, I had scarcely passed a night without more 
or less of it, and often so as not to be able to lie in 
bed. Since that time I have enjoyed as good 
health, as perhaps before the first attack.” 
Dr. Cutler considers his disease to be what 
Dr. Bree in his “ Practical inquiries on disorder- 
ed respiration” calls the first species, “an asthma 
from pulmonic irritation of effused serum.” | 
Dr. Randall informs me, that he has given the 
Lobelia to many persons of different ages suffer- 
ing from asthma and eatarrh, and with considera- 
ble variation in the form and degree of the dose. 
In asthma he finds it as successful as any article 
he has tried. When given in doses of a drachm 
of the saturated tincture, and two or three times 
repeated at conyenient intervals ; also in the form 
of other preparations of similar strength, he has 
found it usually to remove the paroxysm in a 
short time, and to restore the patient to qui- 
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