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ament ; but, imgeneral; bitter and stimulating. medicines have onl nly agryad to vate the 
everish.disposition. - Saline. draughts, .on. the. other | hand,. de AS ini ae yi, af some 
a - yostene even. up, to the very latest periods, i. eee come to. eporter's, know- 
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The weather, ¢ uring the last month, has prov ed cold, dreary and rainy, and. 
given birth to the usual.proportion of bronchial affections; ,, As these diseases. constitute, 
at, the present season, the great bulk of the cases which occur in, popular practice, and as 
they, will probably continue to do-so for the next. two. (or eyen, perhaps, three, ‘months, 
the reporter) thinks himself justified in occupying the remainder .of this communication 
witha notice of the principal features of these very, troublesome, maladies... In general,.the 
‘urgent symptoms (that is to say, those for which the patient calls expressly. for relief) are 
cough, and mucous expectoration, particularly severe in the. morning;, but;, sometimes 
Gifficulty of breathing predominates so much oyer the other and. more usual symptoms, 
that the patient is commonly said to have the asthma, _ In many instances, a considerable 
degree of fever is present also ; and sometimes the inflammatory symptoms, run,so.high, 
as to. convert the affection into \what Sydenham used to call bastard peripneumony.., The 
fits of coughing are occasionally so violent, as to communicate a degree of spasm. to the 
diaphragm, and to bring on vomiting of the contents of the stomach; but generally; the 
appetite is good, and the functions of the stomach unimpaired, till Hoon the latter 
periods of, the disease, . Severe as the sufferings of the patient are at first, they. become 
aggravated in a tenfold degree when the stomach begins to fail, and. when, the emaciation 
and, exhaustion thence arising confine him to his bed, and threaten him with: impending 
consumption. It is not, howeyer, till after repeated attacks that any. real.danger, isto be 
-wpprehended.. Most persons will be found to bear up against the. disease yery well for 
three or four seasons ; but a fifth and a sixth attack have generally so weakened.the mem- 
brane which is the true seat of disorder, and so reduced the constitution, that an unfa- 
yourable eyent is then justly to be apprehended. The principal sufferers from this seyere 
affliction are persons between the ages of forty and fifty, chiefly in the lower,and middling 
ranks, of life—persons exposed, by the nature of their occupations, to the vicissitudes of 
the climate, and both unable and unwilling to sacrifice, at the onset of the disorder, that 
time which would be required for its effectual relief, They struggle, with it,. therefore, 
until it has aequited an alarming height ; and each succeeding winter. finds them both 
more prone to the disease, and less able to resist its violence, The disorder, may be cha- 
racterized as a slow chronic, or subacute inflammation of the mucous “Membrane, of; the 
air passages. Hoarseness sometimes attend it, shewing that the superior portions, of, the 
membrane. aye affected ; and sometimes there is sufficient pain in, the chest, to, indicate 
that the substance of the lung itself has become implicated. , Damp,. and pis and foggy 
weather, is what especially brings it on, and aggravates it when once.e cited. * During. the 
presence of cold and frost, the symptoms usually abate in violence... Xxercise of any kind 
is ill borne; but the walking up hill, or the going up stairs,, brings. on, even. Jn, ordinary 
cases, such urgent distress of breathing, as to excite, in bystander, the iia dixely 
apprehensions of instant suffocation. 
Such are among the most familiar features of that complaint, which has now ‘become, so 
very general, and for which the best exertions of our artare seldom. able to. >. procure more 
than. a\temporary relief. The principles of treatment consist in. lessening the flow of 
blood upon the internal surface of the air passages—in, encouraging its determination to 
the skin.and bowels—and, lastly, in diminishing the irritability of the affected membrane. 
The most obvious means of carrying these views into effect, are those which afford the 
most decisive relief to the patient ; and, consequently, general and local bleeding, blisters, 
saline diaphoretics, and narcotics are the remedies on which the reliance of the me 
practitioner will alone be placed. It is true that demulcent and pectoral reme die as 
they are called, afford a partial and uncertain relief; but they often serve no ot er. pur- 
pose than to waste that yaluable time, which might have been profitably occupied i in | mea- 
sures more energetic, and tending more directly to the root of the growing evil... 
GEORGE. GREGORY,, M.D. 
8, Upper John-street, Golden-square, November 22, 1826. , 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. she isnoi 
Tne past month has afforded small variety of report; rural concerns proceeding, and 
that in a most prosperous train of culture, according to the routine Pees cea 
The wheat seed process may be looked upon as generally finished, excepting up 
not yet cleared of potatoes or mangel-wurzel ; and never more expeditiously, ae 
‘more workman-like style, even in those districts which were formerly deemed slow in the 
_ race of improvement. ‘The drill is gradually pervading some of these,, not inde deed i in at- 
tainable perfection, which, in truth, has not yet reaclicd those of which our greatest 
