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INFLUENZA. 



Influenza is generally included among the list of 

 epidemics, and must be considered as a most severe 

 disease, and is always attended by great prostration of 

 strength. The symptoms are much the same as those 

 attendant on common cold, accompanied by an in- 

 creased degree of fever, total loss of appetite, and con- 

 sequently intense weakness. The pulse becomes quick 

 and feeble, and a painful cough attended by increased 

 respiration is soon apparent. 



The mucous membrane becomes greatly inflamed and 

 enlarged, and is somewhat tender to the touch. 



The treatment should be similar to that recommended 

 in the previous case, using mild aperients, tonics, and 

 cooling yet nourishing food, which should be con- 

 tinued during the attack, and for months subsequently, 

 on alternate weeks, or the constitution may never quite 

 recover its wonted vigour. 



BRONCHITIS. 



Bronchitis consists in inflammation of the bronchii, 

 and is attended by a great obstruction in breathing, 

 which causes a wheezing sound during respiration. 

 There is a thick discharge of mucus from the nostrils, 

 attended by a very severe cough, which evidently 

 causes great pain. 



This disease very frequently leaves behind it an 

 altered structure of the air passages, which produces 

 chronic diseases, such as thick wind, whistling, &c. 



