66 Of a CO \] GU, a7id 



The following alfo will be found an- 

 ufeful remedy in obftinate dry coughs. 



TAKE gum Ammoniaeum, fquills» 

 and Venice foap, of each four oun- 

 ces ; balfam of fulphur with ani- 

 feeds one ounce ; beat up into a 

 mafs, and give as the former. 



Obferva' 

 tion. 



Thcfe mercurial and ponderous medi- 

 cines are well adapted to open obflrudli- 

 ons in the lungs, and prevent thole little 

 knots, or tubercles, which fo frequently 

 ulcerate, and lay the foundation of an 

 incurable malady, or confumption : but 

 the common pedlorals alone will avail' 

 nothing in old ftubborn coughs, their 

 efficacy being loft in the long tour they 

 have to make, before they come to the 

 lungs ; and indeed, were it otherwife, 

 without they had fuch powerful openers 

 joined with them, the^ would be of little 

 confequence; for where there are any 

 expe6lations from medicines, fuch are 

 chiefly to be relied on, which have a 

 power of diffolving and attenuating the 

 vifcid humours, opening the I'mall ob- 

 llrudled veflels, and promoting all the 

 natural fecretions. 



Before 



