2o6 COLDS, &c. 



tioners as are profefled advocates for FUN- 

 DAMENTAL ELECTRICITY. 



We come immediately from this digreffion 

 to the treatment of obftinate coughs, of which 

 there are two diftind kinds in effed:, though 

 proceeding from the very fame caufe^ whether 

 the refult of negledl at the original attack, or 

 inflexibility and non-fubmiffion to the mode 

 cf pradice before recommended, and regularly 

 perfevered in. The one may be coniidered a 

 loofe and almoft continual cough, increafing 

 to violence upon the leaft motion, whilfl: the 

 diftindlon is eafily made by attending to 

 fymptoms: the other is a fliort dry cough, 

 preceded by a huHcy hollow kind of wheezing^ 

 as if refpiration was fhortened or obftruded 

 by fragments of hay or cor?i retained in the 

 paffage. This is the kind of cough called 

 ajlhma by thofe writers who have preceded us, 

 and for which mercurial purges have been re- 

 commended, and may perhaps come forward 

 with more propriety after the adminiftration 

 of a courfe of the following balls, fhould they 

 fail in the defired effed. BLEEDING muft 

 be firft performed, and occafionally repeated 

 in fmall quantities, till the glandular inflam- 

 mation 



