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mentin these cases, among whom are Lemery and 
others, in the Memoirs of the French Academy, | 
It has been found injurious, from its stimulating 
_ properties, when given at too early a stage, or 
during the prevalence of much acute meumared 
tion, ax mtd 
» Benefit has been derived in asthma from the ~ 
use of this plant. The following is Dr. Bree’s 
opinion, quoted from his treatise on that disease. 
“ Decoetion of seneka is eminently useful in the 
first species, administered to old people, but in the — 
paroxysm of young persons, I have found it too 
irritating. ‘This distinction applies to convulsive — 
asthma purely uncomplicated, but the disease is | 
frequently observed 'in middle aged and elderly 
persons, to take the character of peripneumonia ~ 
notha in the winter and spring, and seneka is then” 
the most ‘useful medicine that I have tried. In ~ 
such cases, it should be united with acetated am- — 
monia, during the febrile state, and ‘as this. state” 
eives way; the addition of squill, and camphorated — 
tineture of opium, will’ be found to promote ex- — 
peetoration, » perspiration, and urine ina” most 
powerful manner.” 9) 08) vig 
In croup, this medicine was’ iteredinied: into — 
notice: by Dr. Archer of Maryland. He speaks — 
with much confidence of its utility in that disease, 
