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Selected Articles. 
succeeded in breaking up the disease when acute and fully 
formed. I have also used it in the variety vera with decided 
benefit. Most cases require a small quantity of opium in com- 
bination, and when administered with the view of breaking up 
the disease, it should be given in full doses, and repeated at 
short intervals. It is also one of our most valuable remedies 
for arresting the cough, which is sometimes a protracted se- 
quel of this disease, and in consequence of the irritable con- 
dition in which severe cases are liable to leave the lungs. Pro- 
tracted cases of common and epidemic catarrh, where other 
means have failed, not unfrequently yield to this article. I 
have occasionally combined the tincture of Sanguinaria Cana- 
densis with increased effect. These two remedies, with the 
camphorated tincture of opium in equal parts form a valuable 
compound, and may be given in doses of 50 or 60 ttl repeat- 
ed at intervals of four or five hours. When the disease from 
neglect or other cause assumes the form of membranous 
phthisis, much less is to be expected from its use. In cases of 
this kind the Actcea racemosa is a valuable adjuvant, and 
should enter largely into the combination. It has been suc- 
cessfully employed in simple idiopathic cough, and seems to 
be well adapted to the kind, or irritation on which this cough 
depends. I have often used it in this affection with entire re- 
lief, in doses short of the nauseating point, repeated four or 
five times in the twenty-four hours. In many cases much is 
gained by a judicious combination with other deobstruent nar- 
cotics, as Actaea, Sanguinaria, Digitalis. In such combinations, 
there is usually less disturbance of the stomach, and less in- 
convenience from ultimate narcosis. 
There is much testimony in favour of this article in the 
disease commonly called asthma, (Dyspnoea exacerbans of 
Good.) Dr. Tully thinks it a valuable remedy, and one which 
will often break up the disease. It should be given in the 
drachm doses of the tincture, as the paroxysms are coming on 
and continued at short intervals. The paroxysms is generally 
relieved by the first dose, which should be conjoined with 
3ss. of the tincture of opium. In dysentery it is also recom- 
mended by Dr. Tully. The non-malignant cases of this dis- 
