30 DISEASES CLASS 1. 1. 3. 3, 



inucus with great and perpetual hawking occurs in hydrophobia, 

 and is very distressing to the patient; which may be owing to 

 the increased irritability or sensibility of the upper part of the 

 oesophagus, which will not permit any fluid to rest on it. 



It affects some people after intoxication, when the lungs re- 

 main slightly inflamed, and by the greater heat of the air in ex- 

 piration the mucus becomes too hastily evaporated, and is ex- 

 pectorated with difficulty in the state of white froth. 



I knew a person, who for twenty years always waked with his 

 tongue and throat quite dry; so that he was necessitated to take 

 a spoonful of water, as soon as he awoke; otherwise a little blood 

 always followed the forcible expuition of the indurated mucus 

 from his fauces. See Class II. 1. 3. 17. 



M. M. Steel-springs fixed to the night-cap so as to suspend the 

 lower jaw and keep it closed; or springs of elastic gum. Or a 

 pot of water suspended over the bed, with a piece of list, or 

 woollen cloth, depending from it, and held in the mouth; which 

 will act like a syphon, and slowly supply moisture, or barley wa- 

 ter should be frequently syringed into the mouth of the patient. 



3. Nares aridi. Dry nostrils with the mucus hardening upon 

 their internal surface, so as to cover them with a kind of 

 skin or scale, owing to the increased action of the absorbents of 

 this membrane; or to the too great dryness of the air, which 

 passes into the lungs; or too great heat of it in its expiration. 



When air is so dry as to lose its transparency; as when a tremu- 

 lous motion of it can be seen over corn-fields in a hot summer's 

 day; or when a dry mist, or want of transparency of the air, is 

 visible in very hot weather; the sense of smell is at the same 

 time imperfect from the dryness of the membrane, beneath 

 which it is spread. 



4. Expectoratio solida. Solid expectoration. The mucus of 

 the lungs becomes hardened by the increased absorption, so 

 that it adheres and forms a kind of lining in the air cells, and is 

 sometimes spit up in the form of branching vessels, which are 

 called polypi of the lungs. See Transact, of the College, Lon- 

 don. There is a rattling or wheezing of the breath, but it is 

 not at first attended with inflammation. 



The Cynanche trachealis, or Croup, of Dr. Cullen, or Angina 

 polyposa of Miehaelis, if they differ from the peripneumony of 

 infants, seem to belong to this genus. When the difficulty of res- 

 piration is great, venesection is immediately necessary, and then 

 an emetic and a blister. And the child should be kept nearly 

 upright in bed as much as maybe, See Tonsillitis, Class II. 1. 

 3. 3. and II. 1.2. 4. 



M. M. Diluents, emetics, essence of antimony, foetid gums ; 



