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such cases, way, in all cases. of catarrhal engorge- 
ment without fever, or with little fever, cause ex- 
pectoration by applying it to the soles of the feet? 
Will it operate on the Jungs as an expectorant thus 
used? Ianswer fram knowledge of the fact, that 
it will not. Who ever said it would? Yet it un- 
questionably ought to do so, if its peculiar effect 
on the lungs, (I do not deny that it has a strong 
ulterior effect on them) was owing to a peculiar 
determination to these organs, evinced by the odour 
of the breath—which is not only Dr. Paris’ posi- 
tion, but one every-day avered by medical men. 
This is not the only instance of gratuitons reason- 
ing in Dr. Paris’ observations on this section. He 
says, “Such substances (as the alltaceze) may 
stimulate the exhalent vessels through which they 
pass, and by this stimulus the secretion may be 
increased, and the mucus contained in the fol- 
licles diluted. so as to be poured out in a less 
viscid form, and consequently in a state to be more 
easily brought up by expectoration.” And suppose 
Isay this may all not be so—are there not as many 
facts to intventh this averment, as physiology 
furnishes to sustain his gratuitous position. It is 
after all, begging the question, and no fair deduc- 
tions can be made from reasoning so faulty. What 
are the medicines besides garlic, which he pro- 
poses as expectorants in this section? Squill. the 
balsams, the fetid gums. The first an active 
emetic, a more certain diuretic than most of its 
congeners in the class of diuretics; the second em- 
bracing an extensive tribe of natural vegetable 
secretions, all powerfully stimulant to the general 
system ; the third active antispasmodics, involving 
__ the lungs as a part of that integrity of living mat- 
ter over which they exercise a tranquilizing con- 
trol, by the peculiarity of their inciting action on 
