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wise rejected, but where they are palpably- 

 necessary, and even then the bag and pipe 

 should be the vehicle for injection : the 

 Syringe being an invention of absolute absur- 

 dity, and fit only for such practitioners as 

 are professed advocates for FUNDAMEN- 

 TAL ELECTRICITY. 



We come immediately from this digres- 

 sion to the treatment of obstinate coughs, of 

 which there are two distinct kinds in effect, 

 though proceeding from the very same cause ; 

 whether the result of neglect at the original 

 attack, or inflexibility and non-submissioii 

 to the mode of practice before recommended, 

 and regularly persev^ered in. The one may 

 be considered a loose and almost continual 

 cough, increasing to violence upon the least 

 motion, whilst the distinction is easily made 

 by attending to symptoms ; the other is a 

 short dry cough, preceded by a husky 

 hollow kind of wheezing, as if respiration 

 was shortened or obstructed by fragments of 

 hm/ or corn retained in the passage. This 

 is the kind of cough called asthma by those 

 writers who have preceded us, and for which 

 •mercurial purges have been recommended, 

 and many perhaps come forward with more 



