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the sympathetic harmonies of the body. Should 
‘these then be dubed by the sword and word of aa 
classifying monarch, as he was who first devised : 
the class—mere knights of a local domain, while 
they inherit incontestable claim to an extended 
sovereignty over the whole range of living animal 
space! a 
Let us pass on to the second class of Dr. Paris’ 
scheme: Section a, embraces medicines which di- 
minish the inordinate flow of fluid into the lungs, © 
by removing what I deem is most incorrectly con- 
ceived the cause of this undue flow,—the debility 
of the exhalents. Debility, if it be one cause, is 
clearly not the only, nor the most frequent cause 
of this excessive secretion of mucus. Who that 
has seen the sudden accession of tracheal inflam- 
mation in adults, supervening to exposure to 
damp and coldness with very wet feet, in our spring 
or autumn: in which the patient is first apprised 
of his being sick by starting from his sleep witha 
sudden ejection of a deal of viscid mucus from his 
throat to prevent immediate suffocation, will refer 
this to a debility of the exhalents? If any one do 
_ assign such a cause, let him look to the treatment 
letting, emetics pushed so as to pr 
tem. open the skin, relax the entire 
saline cathartics which establish, after a few. 10u1 
the reduction of inflammation by these debilitating | 
agents, by draining from the bowels and the kid. _ 
nies. If debility be not the cause of augmented 
mucous secretion in this instance, it does no more 
for the conviction of his. error; copious blood- 
the sys- 
clearly appear to me to be so, in what is _ 
called humoral asthma, and the catarrh of old 
people. There is indeed not a balanced action be-— 
tween the excreting and secreting power of 
Inngs and trachea in these affections. The for 
