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place and the adjacent country, it extended, in nume- 

 rous cases, to children of eight, ten, and twelve years 

 old, and, in half a dozen instances at least, to adults of 

 different ages. 



Query 8. Answered. 



Query 9. Among children, is one sex more liable to 

 the disease than the other ? 



To this point I cannot speak very positively; but, 

 as my general recollection enables me to decide, the 

 majority of cases among children has been with females, 

 and the reverse in the instances of adults. 



Queries 10, 11, 12, and 13. Answers to these will 

 be embraced within the scope of the following observa- 

 tions. 



Like other practitioners, I had too often to lament the 

 inefficacy of the various modes of treatment recommended 

 for the cure of the croup, while, in some instances, I had 

 seen it disappear in consequence of the operation of an 

 emetic. I had too frequent occasions to resume the 

 trial of remedies of which past experience had abun- 

 dantily proven the uncertainty, and the only consolation 

 left for me was derived from an assurance that this un- 

 governable malady would probably never assume the 

 sway of an epidemic. 



' As early as the month of November, 1799, the rapid 

 succession and fatal result of several cases of croup 

 suppl. I i 



