C02 COLD S, &c. 



have been fuffered by ne^gied: or penury to be- 

 come obdurate by long {landing, generally 

 fubmit to a very ilnort courfe of trouble or 

 expence; whilft tardinefs in procuring expe- 

 ditious relief is often productive of events that 

 no future affiduity can relieve. By immediate 

 bleeding the obilrudfion is confequently re- 

 duced, and the circulation promoted ; rarefac- 

 tion is eifed:ed, and the ftridure upon the 

 veiTcls. removed by the warm ma&es and cor- 

 dials j the irritating mucus engendered by the 

 iaiiamed glands is likev/ife diverted of its 

 acrimony, and the prefTare upon the lungs re- 

 duced by relaxing and leffening the contents 

 of the body. Under thefe advantages you are 

 eafed of the complaint almoft immediately, or 

 ^ critical difcharge comes on at the noftrils^ 

 and terminates in a few days, what neglefted 

 foonconffcitutes a confirmed COUGH, asthma, 



BROKEN WIND, Or CONSUMPTION, 



In refliecl to thefe difoders, their defcrip- 

 tions (or rather the different conjectures) have 

 been fo extended, turned, twilled, and mutir- 

 lated, in their tranfmhiions from one author to 

 iVnOthery that it is natural to fuppofe no true 

 ftate of either could be aicertained, or any 

 thing fatisfacftory advanced upon the fubjed:. 



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