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2. 737-740 : " Violent paroxysms of cough, occa- 

 sioned by a titillating irritation in tlie lower part of 

 the larynx near the throat-pit, with increase of 

 headache when coughing, on the left side, supe- 

 riorly ; in half an hour, some phlegm is detached, 

 after which the coughing ceases ; on the first day, 

 when waked from his sleep before midnight, he 

 had a violent cough, especially after lying down 

 and sleeping, with titillation at a very small spot, 

 deep down on the posterior wall of the thorax, 

 which wakes him ; he feels better as soon as the 

 least little portion of mucus is detached ; cough par- 

 ticularly during warmth, during rest, and rousing 

 him from his first slumber for several evenings." 



3. 1081, 746, 790: "Chilly every afternoon at 

 three or four o'clock; she shudders, especially 

 during warmth; chill across the back, the hands 

 feel as if dead ; in about an hour she felt hot and 

 feverish, with rough cough, hot cheeks and hands, 

 without thirst; this passes off gradually, she feels 

 heavy and prostrate ; cough and labored breathing 

 as during croup, after violent feverish heat, with dry 

 skin and full pulse ; disturbed sleep, with muttering, 

 timid and incoherent talk, whitish-yellow coating 

 of the tongue, and painless, yellow-greenish, slimy 

 diarrhoea, in four days the breathing become labored, 

 a violent abdominal respiration, red face, increas- 

 ingly livid, pulse hard, cough, with barking reso- 

 nance — pains in the chest, with labored breathing." 



4. 754, 770, 772, 803: "Hurried, labored breath- 

 inig, with heat and headache ; chest oppressed ; dif- 

 ficult, labored breathing ; sense of suffocation even 



