A radical and expeditious cure for a recent catarrhous cough: preceded by some observations on respiration, with ... remarks on some other diseases of the lungs. To which is added a chapter on the vis vitae ... with some strictures on the treatment of compounds fractures / [John Mudge].

  • Mudge, John, 1721-1793.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A radical and expeditious cure for a recent catarrhous cough: preceded by some observations on respiration, with ... remarks on some other diseases of the lungs. To which is added a chapter on the vis vitae ... with some strictures on the treatment of compounds fractures / [John Mudge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found remarkably prominent, are more particularly expofed to he6lic complaints; * and in both thefe Catar- rhous Coughs are really dangerous, and often lay the foundation of a pulmonary phthifis. Upon the whole; if the remedy here propofed, when early applied and * In a comparative way, thefe charafteriftics in the human fubje£l are analogous to thofe which we frequently obferve in the fkeletons of fome horfes, that are faid to be deer-necked, high at the withers, and goofe-rumped ; all which ufually indicate more adlivity of fprrit than ftrength of conllitution i,for they are or- dinarily found to be wafhy upon the road, and fubjedi to coughs ; in fiiort, (as the jockies term it) they are generally without bottom. To this peculiarity of make the breed of run- ning horfes are much difpofed ; and they are accordingly better calculated for Ihort and tem- porary exertions than for the continued fatigue and labour of the chace and road. properly