37^ ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



difficulty in breathing, bleeding, blifters, 

 and vomits, with cooling pecfloral medi-* 

 cines, proper diet and exercife, are the 

 principal remedies ; and there the bark 

 is not to be ufed at all, or with caution. 

 But, when a hoarfenefs fucceeds the 

 meafles, and is neither accompanied with 

 a quick pulfe, nor dyfpnoea, I have ob- 

 ferved a decodion of the bark to be 

 moft fuccefsful j as will appear from the 

 following cafes : 



I. R. B. aged about twenty-one, after 

 the meafles had difappeared, was trou- 

 bled with a great hoarfenefs, a cough, 

 and vifcid phlegm. The uvula and 

 'ueliim palatinum appeared flightly infla- 

 med ; his pulfe w^as fofc, and did not 

 beat above leventy times in a minute. 



For thefe complaints, December 12. 

 1757, I ordered him to drink, fix times 

 a day, a gill of lintfeed-tea, fweetened and 

 acidulated with fyrup of vinegar; to 

 breath frequently over the fl:cam of hot 

 water and vinegar, and to rub the fol- 

 lowing 



