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NERVOUS SYMPTOMS. 703
Those afthmatic patients, whofe ftomach and bowels are weak,
and muck troubled with flatulence, do better with the lighter flefh-
meats and a little wine, than with a milk and vegetable diet ; and
the folution of gum ammoniac, with acetum fcilliticumy or the pilule
fcillitictfy do not commonly agree fo well with them as the afa fœti~
da and volatile alkaline faits..
When elderly perfons have been feized with an afthmatic pa*~
roxyfm from the gout attacking the lungs, I have found moft be¬
nefit from blifters- applied between the fhoulders, and to the legs*
and from bolufes of gum ammoniac yfaL, voL. amnion, and camphire*.
given twice or thrice af-day..
(3.) To prevent the return of the fits in the true fpafinodia
afthma, we mult endeavour to ftrengthen the lungs and whole ner¬
vous fyftem by means of the bark, chalybeates, elixir of vitriol, a
proper diet, country-air,, and riding;,
A flannel, waiflcoat next the fkin, ©r a large piece of flannel;
wore on the bread, has contributed to prevent the frequent return
of afthmatic fits.
The patients lhonld, above all things, avoid eating or drinking;
fb much at once, as to burden their ftomach.
In the mixt aflhma the bark mult be ufed with more caution*
efpecially if the lungs be confiderably obftru<5led, or loaded with
phlegm ; and the cure muft be chiefly attempted by iflues in the
back and arms, or a feton in the fide ; and by other medicines that
tend to remove the obftrucftion in the pulmonary veflels, or leffen
the flux of humours to them ; of this kind are the piluhe fcilliticæy
taken in fuch quantity as to keep the body always open spills of gar¬
lic and foap ; the juice of forty or fifty millepede in two or three
table-fpoonfuls of French white wine* Rhenifh or cyder, taken twice
a-day ; and crude mercury, or quickfilver pills, which have fome-
times cured afthmatic ailments after other remedies had failed.
As not only different patients are relieved by different remedies,
but the fame patients, from a change in their conftitution, or in the
nature of the diforder, often require a confiderable change in their
medicines