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medicines prescribed, will, with care and 

 proper attention, perform all that can be ex- 

 pected from warm cordial pectorals. 



PLEURISY, AND INFLAMMATION 

 OF THE LUNGS. 



To avoid those unnecessary distinctions 

 generally made to swell the work, as well as 

 the tedious repetitions introduced to form 

 a plausible but fallacious difference be- 

 tween diseases bearing the strictest affinity 

 (not only originating in the same cause, 

 but depending on the very same treatment 

 for cure), I shall, in^this class, proceed to the 

 necessary observations upon what is termed 



PLEURISY, INFLAMMATION of the LUNGS, 



BROKEN WIND, and lastly, consumption. 

 The gradations or circumstances of connec- 

 tion are so regular from a simple cold, in the 

 first instance, to the disagreeable effects of 

 the latter, as to form a sufficient reason for 

 bringing the whole into rational investi- 

 gation. 



To steer clear of the trammels of imita- 

 tion, I must avoid the beaten -track of Bart-^ 



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