2o6 COLDS, &c. 



tioners as are profeffed advocates for FUND A- 

 MENTAL ELECTRICITY. 



We come immediately from this digreffion 

 to the treatment of obftinate coughs, of which 

 there are two diiliiict kinds in efFe6l, though 

 proceeding from the very fame caufe ; whether 

 the refj.lt of negledl at the original attack, or 

 inflexibility and non-fubmiflion to the mode 

 of practice before recommended, and regularly 

 perfevered in. The one may be confidered a 

 loofe and aim oft continual cough, increafing 

 to violence upon the leaft motion, whilft the 

 diftindion is eafily made by attending to 

 fymptoms: the other is a fhort dry cough, 

 preceded byahufky hollow kind of wheezing, 

 as if refpiration w^as fliortened or obilrudled 

 by fragments of kay or corn retained in the 

 pafTage. This is the kind of cough called 

 ajihma by thofe writers who have preceded us, 

 and for v/hich merciwial purges have been re- 

 comm.ended, and may perhaps come forward 

 with more propriety after the admin i ft ration 

 of a courfe of the following bails, fhould they 

 fail in the deilred effea:. BLEEDING mull 

 be firft performed, and cccafionally repeated 

 in fmall quantities, till the glandular inflam- 

 mation 



