DISEASES CLASS II. 1. 1. JS 



" lard the ground" as they run. The increase of heat of corpulent 

 people on exercise, is another consequence of their more rapid 

 circulation, and greater secretion. See Class I. 2. 3. 17. 



Other causes of difficult or quick respiration will be treated 

 of under Asthma, Pertussis, Peripneumonia, Tonsillitis. 



5. Tussis ebriomm. Sensitive cough is an exertion of the 

 muscles used in expiration excited into more violent action by 

 the sensorial power of sensation, in consequence of something 

 which too powerfully stimulates the lungs. As the saline part 

 of the secreted mucus, when the absorption of it is impeded; or 

 the too great viscidity of it, when the absorption is increased; 

 or the too great quantity of the mucus, when the secretion is 

 increased; or the inflammation of the membranes of the lungs; 

 it is an effort to dislodge any of these extraneous materials. 



Of this kind is the cough which attends free-drinkers after a 

 debauch; it consists of many short efforts to cough with a fre- 

 quent expuition of half a tea- spoonful of frothy mucus, and is 

 attended with considerable thirst. The thirst is occasioned by 

 the previous dissipation of the aqueous parts of the blood by sen- 

 sible or insensible perspiration; which was produced by the in- 

 creased action of the cutaneous and pulmonary capillaries during 

 the stimulus of the wine. In consequence of this an increased 

 absorption commences to replace this moisture, and the skin and 

 mouth become dry, and the pulmonary mucus becomes inspis- 

 sated; which stimulates the bronchia, and is raised into froth by 

 the successive currents of air in evacuating it. This production 

 of froth is called by some free-drinkers " spitting sixpences" af- 

 ter a debauch. This subsequent thirst, dry mouth, and viscid 

 expectoration in some people succeeds the slightest degree of in- 

 toxication, of which it may be esteemed a criterion. See Class 

 IV. 2.1.8. 



As coughs are not always attended with pain, the muscular 

 actions which produce them, are sometimes excited by the sen- 

 sorial faculty of irritation, as in Class I. 1. 2. 8. I. 1. 3. 4. 

 L 1. 4. 3. I. 2. 3. 4. Coughs are also sometimes convulsive, 

 as in Class III. 1. 1. 10. and sometimes sympathetic, as in Class 

 IV. 2. 1. 7. 



M. M. Venesection, when the cough is attended with in- 

 flammation. Mucilages. Opium. Torpentia. Blister. 



6. Singultus. Hiccough is an exertion of the muscles used 

 in inspiration excited into more violent action by the sensorial 

 power of sensation, in consequence of something which too pow- 

 erfully stimulates the cardia ventriculi, or upper orifice of the 

 stomach. As when solid food is too hastily taken without suf- 

 ficient dilution. And is an effort to dislodge that offensive ma- 



