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fide of a fire, or window, to which they will be liable always t 

 bend themfelves. 



When matter is produced during peripneumony or pleurify 

 Jn one fide of the cheft, fo long as it is a concealed vomiea, the 

 fever continues, if the difeafe be great, for many weeks, and even 

 months ; and requires occafional venefe&ion, till the patient 

 finks under the inflammatory or fenfitiye irritated fever. But if 

 air be admitted, by a part of the abfcefs opening itfelf a way in- 

 to the air-veffels of the lungs, a heclic fever, with colliquative 

 fweats or diarrhoea, fupervenes, and frequently deftroys the pa- 

 tient ; or the abfcefs heals, the lungs adhering to the pleura. 

 See pleurodyne rheumatica. Clafs IV. 1.2. 16. 



M. M. The lancet muft be ufed copioufly, and repeated as 

 often as the pain and difficult refpiration increafe. A blifter on 

 the pained part. Antimonial preparations. Diluents. Cool 

 air. Do neutral falts increafe the tendency to cough ? PedU 

 luvium or femicupium frequently repeated. 



6. Dlaphragmitis. Inflammation of the diaphragm. Pain, 

 round the lower ribs as if girt with a cord. DiiHcult refpira- 

 tion performed only by elevating the ribs and in an erecl: pof- 

 ture. The corners of the mouth frequently retracted into a dik 

 agreeable fmiJe, called rifus Sardoriicus. 



Thofe animals, which are furnifhed with clavicles, or collar^ 

 bones, not only ufe their foremoft feet as hands, as men, mon- 

 keys, cats, mice, fquirrels, &c. but elevate their ribs in refpira- 

 tion as well as deprefs the diaphragm for the purpofe of enlarg- 

 ing the cavity of the cheft. Hence an inflammation of the dia- 

 phragm is fudden death to thofe animals, as horfes and dogs, 

 which can only breathe by deprefling the diaphragm ; and is I 

 fuppofe the caufe of the fudden death of horfes that are over-, 

 worked ; whereas, in the human animal, when the diaphragm 

 is inflamed, fo as to render its motions impoijible from the pain 

 they occafion, refpiration can be carried on, though in a lefs per- 

 fet manner, by he intercoftal mufcles in the elevation of the 

 ribs. In pleurify the ribs are kept motionlefs, and the refpira- 

 tion is performed by the diaphragm, as may be readily feen on 

 infpe<\ing the naked cheft, and which is generally a bad fymp- 

 tom ; in the diaphragmitis the ribs are alternately elevated, an4 

 deprefled, but the lower part of the belly is not feen to move. 



M. M. As in pleurify and peripneumony. When the pa- 

 tient becomes delirious, and fmiles difagreeably by intervals, and 

 is become fo weak, that evacuations by the lancet could be ufed 

 no further, and I have almoft defpaired of my patient, I have 

 found in two or three inftances, that about five or fix drops of 

 jincl:. thebaic. given an hour before the evening exacerbation, 



have 



