A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander.

  • Alexander, Disney, 1769-1844
Date:
[1794]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and cure of the cynanche trachealis, commonly called the croup / by Disney Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    [ 7^ ] When any confiderable fecretion has been formed, we have, indeed, much reafon to fear that no means, with which we are ac- quainted, can be of any fervice. But if it be collected in a fmall quantity, and has not yet acquired the firmnefs and tenacity of a membrane, w'e may furely conceive liopes, that the quantity thus colJeded may be expedorated along with other mucus, and that, if by the continuance of the de- bilitating means we have employed, we can abate the inflammation, and thus prevent the fecretion of frefli matter, we may at lafl: fucceed in curing the difeafe. What then is the befl method of promo- ting this expedoration ? The fetid gums, the volatile falts, fquills, the aqua ammon. acetat. &c. have been commended as ex- cellent expedorants. But daily pradice proves the precarioufnefs of thefe remedies, not oniy in this but in other diforders, ivhere a fimilar effed is wanted to be pro- duced. Bdidcs, on account of their nan- ' • . fcoufnefs. V