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and ina6live ; an addition of two drachms of 

 camphor to the cordial drink, will render it 

 more penetrating. After this clafs of medi- 

 cines fhall have had a fuccefsful operation, the 

 cure may be completed with cooling diuretics 

 as above, or they may be ufed alternately ac- 

 cording to fymptoms. It behoves me to (late, 

 that I have frequently feen errors committed on 

 both fides the queflion : in cold catarrh, by the 

 too early exhibition of faline and refrigerating 

 medicines, merely from the affeftation of a new 

 and more refined method of pra61ice, by which 

 the difeafe has been prolonged, and the patient 

 (human or brute) needlefsly kept in a weak 

 and aguidi ftate many days. I have more than 

 once made the blunder my felf. 



The fymptomatic cough generally ceafes 

 with the original difeafe, indeed always, in cafe 

 of a perfe6l cure ; but fhould the cough be very 

 frequent and troublefome, from violent irrita- 

 tion of the humours about the root of the 

 tongue, and along the windpipe ; the following 

 lubricating drink will be of ufe, and may be 

 given a pint or two at a time, blood-warm, at 

 difcretion. 



The PECTORAL INFUSION to cafc the cough. 

 Raifms ftoned, half a pound ; liquorice root, 

 fplit, or bruifed, three ounces ; white hore- 

 hound, three ounces; hnfeed, two ounces : 

 nitre, tv/o ounces ; infufe in four or five quarts 



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