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the vapour of ether, with laudanum, has also 
been much used. It acts by stimulating the 
schneiderian membrane as the preceding articles 
do. In some instances of annual periodical ca- 
_.tarrh attended with obstinate suppression of the 
nasal secretion, I have known it beneficial. It is 
a favourite prescription in such cases with Dr. 
Physick. The cases related. 
**Mr. Reddelin of Weimer, has recently com- 
municated to the Royal Society of Gottingen 
through Professor Blumenbach the following suc- 
cessful treatment of croup after the usual reme- 
dies had been tried without effect. The patient a 
female aged 19, who on the third day after being 
seized with croup was unable to swallow, had 
began to rattle in the throat and seemed to be 
rapidly approaching her dissolution. Dr. R. 
insinuated by means of a quill a mixture of Span- 
ish snuff and morocco* into her nostrils, and after 
repeating this mixture a secoud time it excited 
sneezing and vomiting. "They eccasioned the dis- 
charge of two long membranous cylinders from 
the trachea, upon which the rattling immediately 
ceased and the patient was rescued from suffoca- 
tion.”} 
To conclude: the deflaxion produced by errhines 
is commonly evanescent; yet it does continue 
often for several hours, and occasionally the 
established secretion continues in augmented 
quantity for several days. It is obvious, from 
the preceding remarks, that the power of err- 
hines is local, though it was maintained by the 
late Dr. Barton, that errhines taken into the 
stomach did occasionally produce the same effect, 
* The root of adonis autumnalis. es 
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