250 Fqcts relative to Cynanche Tracheahs. 



I now thought myself in possession of a remedy that 

 would be effectual in the removal of a disease, which had 

 hitherto been moot afflicting to the community, and had 

 , so often baffled the best exertions of medicine. I met 

 every succeeding case with increased confidence, and 

 the uniform success of the remedy soon rendered it 

 popular. In some instances I was requested to take 

 immediate and exclusive charge of cases, which oc- 

 curred in families where I had not usually attended, 

 and, as far as my information extended, the practice 

 was soon adopted by every other practitioner in the place. 

 The whole number of cases, successfully treated, that 

 came exclusively that winter under my own notice, 

 exceeded thirty ; and I am able to assure )0u, with 

 truth, that from that time to the present, 1 have not lost 

 a single patient in the croup, where my assistance was 

 required in season. It has sometimes happened with 

 infants, that no vein of sufficient magnitude could be 

 discovered in either arm; and, in these instances, I 

 have opened the external jugular, which, I believe, can 

 always be accomplished without difficulty. 



There is a stage of the disease, which I shall endea- 

 vour to establish before I conclude this letter, in which 

 it would seem that deliquium cannot be produced by 

 blood-letting ; and, without that effect, the remedy is, 

 unquestionably, of no avail. 



That species of the croup which I consider as the 

 •chief subject of the present enquiry, and more especially 

 as it prevailed in 1799, Mas, in most instances, preceded 

 by that peculiar and distinguishing cough, which is sp 



