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She was also desired to breathe frequently over the steam of hot water^ and 

 to drink, lintseed tea. 



January 10th. Her pulse beat only 112 times in a minute, and was some- 

 what fuller than on the 9th. The blister was not removed till late in the even- 

 ing, and made a plentiful discharge. The cough having been so severe last 

 night, as to keep her from sleep, he ordered her the following anodyne 

 draught : 



R Sp. Mind. § ss. acet. scill. 5i. syr. papav. alb. 5vi. M. cap. hor. somni. 



Jan nth. The cough easier last night; difficulty of breathing less; pulse 

 108 in a minute. Ordered the anodyne draught to be repeated, and the use of 

 the julep, with acet. scill. to be continued. Jan. 12th. Pulse slower ; cough 

 and pain of the side easier; but still complained of a head-ache. Jan. 13th. 

 Pulse 94 in a minute ; cough continued easier in the night, but was trouble- 

 some in the day-time. Jan. 14th. Everyway better; pulse only 80 in a minute. 

 As her cough was still bound, he ordered her, besides the medicines above- 

 mentioned, a pectoral decoction of rad. alth. &c. Jan. 1 5th. Cough and other 

 complaints in a great measure removed : pulse 65 in a minute. 



From this time her cough gave her little trouble ; but on the 18th, she com- 

 plained of a pain in the epigastrium, with sickness at stomach, want of appetite, 

 and a giddiness in her head, which were considerably relieved by a vomit, infus. 

 amar. and stomachic purges ; and were almost wholly cured by the return of 

 her menses, on the 5th of Feb. after an interval of 8 weeks. 



5. A girl 21 months old, who had (Dec. 1756) a great load of the small-pox, 

 and not of a good kind, with a cough and obstructed breathing, was, on the 7 th 

 day from the eruption, blistered on the back ; by which the pulse was lessened 

 from 200 to 156 strokes in a minute. Next day her legs were also blistered, and 

 the pulse thereby fell to 136. But the child's lungs being much oppressed, and 

 her throat being so full of pustules that she could scarcely swallow any thing, she 

 died towards the end of the 9th day. 



Dr. W. could have added several other cases of the remarkable effects of 

 blisters in lessening the quickness of the pulse in coughs attended with fever, 

 pain in the side, and pituitous infarction of the lungs : but those above seemed 

 sufficient to put this matter out of doubt, as well as to remove any prejudice 

 that might remain against the free use of so efficacious a remedy. 



In a true peripneumony, especially where the inflammation is great, repeated 

 bleeding is the principal remedy, and blisters early applied are not so proper. 

 But when the peripneumony is of a mixed kind ; when the lungs are not so 

 much inflamed as loaded with a pituitous matter ; when bleeding gives but little 

 relief; when the pulse, though quick is small ; when the patient is little able to 

 bear evacuations, and the disease has continued for a considerable time , in all 



