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two months. After some time I ceased from taking 

 snuff: the catarrh did not return, but in several instances 

 on my visiting the shore I had short and severe parox- 

 5'sms of it, which ceased immediately on my going back. 

 Since my return finally to this place in the year 1805, to 

 the present time, I have suffered but little from this 

 source except in moist, cloudy weather, and during a par- 

 oxysm of acidity in the stomach, when the catarrh is 

 nearly as severe as ever. If at such a time, I ride in an 

 easj^ chaise, directly along the sea shore, for two or three 

 hours, with the wind blowing from the ocean on to the 

 land, it induces such a degree of horrseness, that I can- 

 not speak a loud word. Brisk exercise, or a better at- 

 mosphere, will soon give relief. When in good health, 

 I experience these evils, under similar circumstances, 

 only in a small degree. 



VIII. Cough, Loss of Voice, &c. There is a 

 cough attending this disease, aside from catarrh, and ve- 

 ry properly termed by people in general, stomach cough ; 

 often rendered considerably troublesome by the preva^ 

 lence of acidity, with no expectoration, or a very small 

 and difficult one. The same cause also, sometimes oc- 

 casions a partial or total loss of voice. Hundreds of 

 times I have known the voice, so far weakened by a par- 

 oxysm of acidity in the stomach, as to render it inconven- 

 ient and painful, for one or more days at a time, to read 

 loud half an hour. And I have met with one or two ca- 

 ses, where persons were unable to speak out of a whis- 

 per, for a long period of time, which I attributed to sym- 

 pathy w^ith a debilitated stomach, and which I could ac- 

 count for, in no other manner. 



IX. Consumption. This disease, when occasioned 

 by the cause now alledged, is chiefly confined to delicate- 

 young ladies, between fourteen and twenty-one years of 

 age. There is usually in such cases, an hereditary de- 

 bility. To this, great accessions are made, by the most 

 delicate and ridiculous nursing in childhood ; by the 

 avoidance of exercise afterwards ; by a diet of slops ; 

 by confinement at home ; by fashionable dress, 

 cramping and compressing some parts of the body, 

 and leavinsf others naked ; and a universal round of ab> 



