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_ tubbed with a warmhand or dry ‘cloth. If there:be-a-violent spa 
~ quarts of hot water, and while it is slacking and boiling stir 
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pased, lacking-oxygen, owing to the proper action of the tun 
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Mepicinr —During the paroxysm the body is generall 
a purging clyster, with a solution of assafwtida, ought therefore to _ 
be administered, and if there be occasion, repeat it. ‘The patient’s “ 
feet and legs ought to be inimersed in warm water, and afterwards ee 
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about the breast or stomach; warm fomentations, or bladders filled — 
with warm milk and water, may be applied to the part affected, and 
warm cataplasms to the soles of the feet, The patient must drink ~ 
freely of diluting liquors, and may take°a tea spo lof the tine= 
ture of castor and saffron mixed together ina cup of valerian’ tea, — 
twice or thrice a day.. Other anti-spasmodics, as foxglove, stramo- Z 
nium tincture, lady slipper, skunk-cabbage, &c, may be given. Vomits 
must not be neglected, as‘ they often snatch the patient, as it were, 
from the jaws of death: among these, lobelia is peculiarly service- 
able, cutting up the phlegm, and giving instant relief. Blood reot is 
also vood. ei cg 
in the moist asthma, such things as promote expectoration ‘ought. 
torbe used. Mucilaginous, anti-spasmodic; warming and sti ing 
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ma. ‘The skunk cabbage is very appropriate to this disease, 
In addition’ to other tonie¢s, exercise, either in swinging, sailin; 
riding in a carriage, or on horseback, but particularly the latter, 
gether with a change of air, will be beneficial to asthmatics 
In th asthma, arising from a retroces ion of the gout, : re 
-usually int ermission, and other irregularities of the pulse, great anxi- 
ety of countenance, with a bluish tinge thereon, large doses of 
saffron, opium, camphor, or fever root, are the medicines most like- 
ly to afford relief. Sometimes it is necessary to apply a blister to the - 
chest, assisted with placing the feet in warm water, &c. A very 
strong infusion of roasted coffee is said to give ease in an asthmatic 
paroxysin. i ipa eae rem 
__ The following tincture I can recommend as excellent for the 
ma-:—Take half a pound of quick lime, slack it by turning on 
of tar, and stir them well together, and let it stand and 
pound of wild turnip, half a pound of milk w 
handful of lobelia; bruise them 
1¢ whole in a sand heat twenty 
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