202 COLD S, &c. 



have been tlifrered by negled or penury to be- 

 come obdurate by long flanding, generally 

 fubmit to a very fhort courfe of trouble or 

 expenfe ; whilft tardinefs in procuring expe- 

 ■ ditious relief is often productive of events that 

 no future afliduity can relieve. By immediate 

 bleeding the obftrudion is confequently re- 

 duced, and the circulation promoted ; rarefac- 

 tion is effeded, and the ftridure upon the 

 veffcls removed by the warm maflies and cor- 

 dials ; the irritating mucus engendered by the 

 inflamed glands is likewife diveftcd of its 

 acrimony, and the preffure upon the lungs re- 

 duced by relaxing and leffening the contents 

 of the body. Under thefe advantages you are 

 eafed of the complaint almofi immediately, or 

 a critical difcharge comes on at the noftrils, 

 and terminates in a few days, what neglected 

 foon conflitutes a confirmed cough, asthma, 



BROKEN WIND, Or CONSUMPTION. 



In refped to thefe diforders, their defcrip- 

 tions (or rather the different conjedures) have 

 been io extended, turned, tvvifled, and muti- 

 lated, in their tranfmifficns from one aiitbGr to 

 another^ that it is natural to fuppofe no true 

 fiate of either coulJ be afcertained, or any 



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