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coughs which proceed from a debility of the ftomach, the Peruvian, bark: is: like, 
wile of confiderable fervice. It may either be chewed, taken in powder, .or,,made 
intoa tincture along with other ftomachic bitters. A nervous cough can only bere 
moved by change of air and proper exercile, Immerfing the feet and hands. in 
warm water will often appeafe the violence of a nervous cough. When a cough 
is only the fymptom of fome other malady, itis in vain to attempt to remove it 
without firft curing the difeafe from which it proceeds. Thus, when a cough i is 
occafioned by teething, keeping the body open, {carifying the gums,, Or whatever 
facilitates the cutting of the teeth, likewife appeates the cough. In. like manner, 
when worms occafion acough, fuch medicines. as remoye thefe vermin will generally 
cure the cough ; as bitter purgatives, oily clyfters, and fuch like. Women, ‘dor. 
ing the laft months of pregnancy, are often greatly afflicted with a cough, which j is 
generally relieved by bleeding and keeping the body open. They ought to av oid 
all flatulent food, and to wear a loofe eafy drefs. ie: seg 
/ OF THE WHOOPING or CHIN COUGH. 
“THIS cough feldom affects adults, but proves often fatal to children. ‘whal 
ever hurts the digeftion, obltructs the perfpiration, or relaxes the folids, difpofes to 
thisdifeate -confequently i its cure muft depend upon cleanfing and ftrengthening 
the ftomach, bracing the folids,, and, : at the fame time, promoting perfpiration i 
| the di different fecretions, 
_CURE.---One of the moft effectual remedies i in: re chin- cough is change of a air, 
This often removes the malady, even when the change feems to be from a purer 
to alefs. wholefome air. T his may in fome meafure depend on the patient’s being 
moved from the place where the infection prevails. Moft of the diftafes. of-chil- 
dren ¢ are infectious ; nor.is it atall uncommon to find the chin-cough prevailing 
in one town or village, when another, ata very {mall diftance, is. quite free from 
it ss whatever be the. caufe, we are fre. of the faé&t. No time OneDE: therefore 
: of an inflammation of the lungs, a fecond, or even a third, 
© Fequifite - Vomits not only cleanfe. the ftomach, which in this 
ly loadec baich. vifcid phlegm, but they likewife promote the per- 
ipiration and other. Secretions 5, and. euBhE therefore to be ssf according ¢ sha 
