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Favorable symptoms are lessening of the effusion in the chest ; im- 

 provement in the breathing and pulse; return of healthy appetite, etc. 

 But recovery is slow, and complete recovery is seldom realized, for the 

 lung is apt to grow fast to the ribs, and stitches in the side attack him 

 during active exercise. 



What to do. — Put him in a comfortable place, dry, warm, nnd well- 

 venlihited, l)ut no drafts. Clothe warmly, and l)andage the legs. If the 

 sides have not been well blistered with receii)e No. 41, apply it imme- 

 diately, and repeat it every six hours, till the sides are well-blistered, and 

 give No. 18 internally, every two hours, very persistently; if he eats 

 nothing, drench him wnth oat-meal gruel. If the chest continues to fill 

 it may be tapped, the operation being called paracentesis thoracis, direc- 

 tions for wliich may be found in the chapter on operations. 

 XIII. Chronic Cough. 



Causes. — When the inflammation of tlie mucous membrane of either the 

 larynx or bronchial tubes becomes chronic, the irritability of it remains 

 and the smallest thing will produce a cough, and sometimes a fit of cough- 

 ing that may last several minutes. Dust in the hay or oats, or breathed 

 in wliih' on the road, sudden gusts of air, pressure of the collar or throat 

 lash, or pinching of the throat with the hand will excite the cough. 



THE ACT OF COUGHING. 



How to know it. — Coughs are efforts of nature to free the breathing 

 apparatus of irritants, and they differ according to the i)art affected and 

 the extent of the affection. The healthy cough is strong, full and usu- 

 ally followed by a sneeze to clear the nose. The throat cough is a 

 lighter, shorter, hacking one, while that of the chest is a hollow, deep, 

 resonant cough, except in the acute, painful stages of bronchitis, when it 

 is almost noiseless from being so much subdued. 



What to do. — Chronic cough is almost incurable when long standing, 

 but in the more recent cases good treatment will benefit and oftentimes 



