m CULPREPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
fyrup of oxymel of fquills, mixed with an equal quantity of cinnamon-water, may 
be taken three or four times through the day ; and four or five pills, made of equal 
parts of afafcetida and gum-ammoniac, at bed-time. Large dofes of aether have 
been found * very efficacious in removing a fit of the afthma. For the convulfive or 
nervous afthma, antifpafmodics and bracers are the moft proper medicines, » Phe 
- patient may take a tea-{poonful of the paregoric elixir twice a-day.. The Peruvian 
bark is fometimes found to be of ufe in this cafes Ic may be taken in fubftance, 
or infufed i in wine. In fhort, every thing that braces the nerves, or takes off fpaim, 
may be of ufe in a neryous afthma. It is often relieved by the ufe of affes milk; I 
have likewife known cows milk drunk warm in the morning have a good effet in 
this cafe. In every fpecies of afthmas, fetons and iffues are of Great fervice; they 
may cither be put in the back or fide, and fhould never be allowed to dry up.. We 
fhall here, once for all, obferve, that not only in the afthma, but in moft chronic 
difeates, iffues are extremely proper. They are both a fafe and efficacious remedy ; 
and, though they do-not always cure the 6 ies yet wey will often prolong the 
patient’ s life. 
Rs Or poe APOPLEX Y. 
“THE immediate caufe of an apoplexy is a compreffion of the brain, -occafioned 
by an excefs of blood, or a collection of watery humours. The former is called a 
Sanguine, and the latter a /erous, apoplexy, It may be occafioned by any thing thac 
increafes the circulation towards the brain, or prevents the return of the blood from. 
the head; intenfe ftudy, violent paffions, fuppreffion of urine, excefs of venery, the 
fadden ftriking in of any eruption, wounds or bruifes on the head, long expofure to 
‘exceflive cold, poifonous exhalations, &c. 
_CURE.---The ufual forerunners of an apoplexy are giddinefs, pain and {wim- 
ming of the head, lofs of memory, drowfinefs, noife in the ears, the night-mare, a 
{pontancous flux of tears, and laborious refpiration. When perfons have reafon to | 
fear the approach of a fit, they fhould endeavour to prevent it by bleeding, a. flender 
opening medicines: In the apoplexy, if the patient does not die fuddenly,, 
nance appears florid, the face i is fwelled-or puffed up, and the blood-vel- 
about the neck and temples, are turgid the pulfe. beats Strong, the 
nent and fixed, and the breathing is difficult, and performed with a 
‘he excrements and urine are often voided fpontaneoufly, and the: = 
=C feized with vomiting. In this ftage, every. method muft be 
taken to leffen : f the circulation towards the head. The garters fhould 
be tied pretty tight, by which means. the motion of the blood from the lower extre- — 
mities will be retarded The = — ~ bled shia in the neck or arm, and, 
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