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314 ON CATARRH. 



** the chill requires Hquids (as wine and water) 

 *' above the temperature of the human body, 

 " and indeed as warm as can be conveniently 

 " fwallowed. In cafe of a chilly feizure, from 

 the unwary ufe and application of cold wa- 

 ter, very hot liquids, taken till the contrary 

 fenfation arifes, would probably prevent all 

 injurious confequences." There is a ftrift 

 analogy between this ^' chill" of Dr. Beddoes 

 and the cold fpecies of catarrh, and by his 

 allowance, or rather abfolute recommendation 

 of, warm and even hot remedies, he has obvi- 

 ouily given up all for which he v^^as contend- 

 ing. On the treatment of the frozen limb, 

 1 might have remarked, that the analogy be- 

 tween external and internal remedies is by no 

 means ftri61 ; that even in the cafe quoted, heat 

 is the defideratum, but can only be admitted 

 with fafety by degrees, for the moft obvious 

 reafons. The cafe of Dr. Hamilton's boy, 

 cured of an incipient catarrh, by lying abroad 

 all night, and that of the beggar, prove no- 

 thing but the manifeft truth, that there are 

 exceptions to general rules. The faft is noto- 

 rious, that many keepers of pofl-horfes have 

 been in the habit of wafliing them whilft in 

 the moft ardent and intenfe perfpiration, all 

 over with cold water, and that they have per- 

 fifted in fuch praftice, many years together, 

 with impunity; I demand of Drs. Beddoes 



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