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Show 0f :1 Cough and Confirmption. Book II. Blood, and by opening the porous and tender frame of the RCCCpfacles of Air, doth caule a greater deflnxion of acrde humours, more enragmg the Cough in this kind ofConfumptive Perfons, who are lefs afllréted in‘the grofs fmokc,and fill phureous Air of Cities (that burn Turf and Cole ) which grati. fies Couchs, ( derived from thin acrimonious humors) often cured With Sul- CHAP. LIII. phureou: Balfamick Medicines, which are very proper ll] Ulcers of the Lungs; upon this account Sulphur may lie-called the Balfomelofthe Lungs, wheii they are opprelled with Coughs, flowing from faltne Particles (brought to a F(not) affeéting the Blood, which being extravafated in the empty {133. ces of the Lungs, do highly irritate their membranous frame ( endued With acute fenfe) by violent Coughing, which the thick fulphureous partsof Air ,( as giving fome allay to the nitrous Particles ) do much appeafe, and In. fome degree, take oil the Acidities of the Blood, Lympha, and nervous Liquor, and make way forthe cure of Confumptive Coughs, produced by {harp acri- monious Humors. The Frog- . As to the Prognofticks of a Cough, they are not dangerous in firong noliitks nia healthy Bodies, who have a firm Compage of Lungs, not afleéted with grofs, or {harp faline Recrements, and free from an acute Fever. But in fickly Perlbns, inclining to a Confilmption, that are tortured with i , violent Coughing, proceeding from thick clammy Humors, fometimes Yelcan by bought: g, low,and other times Greenilh,there is imminent danger, efpecially if the great Cough be accompanied with high dejeétion of Spirit, and decay of the Helhy parts,difficulty of Breathingand a confiant flow Fever, derived from the Effer. vefcence of the Blood 3 and when the Difeafe growetli more prevalent,where- in the Spittle becometh highly difcoloured, as grols and putrid, flowing from an Ulcer of the Lungs, attended with a Heétick Fever, (coming from the Ulcerous Matter, infeéting the Blood in its pafl'age through theLungs) and with frequent cold Sweats, arguing the great decay of the vital heat and firength, and then the Difeafe hath little of hope, as being accompanied with fatal fymptornes. The! irli lnti ration of a Cough. The Second lndrtation. The Third lndicntion. ' , In order to the cure of this Difeaf'e, Three Indications are offered: The Firfi is,To take a way the unkindly heat of the Blood,produétive ofDeflué‘tion of ferous Recrements, defiilling into the Bronchia, and appendant Sinus of the Lungs. The Second, is to difcharge the Faeces of the Blood ready for Secretion eitherhby Expeéioration, or by Sweat, or by Urine in the beginning of I Coug . The Third is to corroborate the weak Compage of the Lungs pmpEl‘ Peéiorals, accompanied with gentle afiringents, efpecially in the by defluxion of thin Humours, into the Air-veffels of the Lungs. In the FirPt Indication, the Effervef‘cence of the Blood is lefTened by Bleed- ing in the beginning of a Cough, when the Patient hath firength; afterward gentle Diaphoreticks may be ufed, and contemperating Juleps, made of Pe- The Tat/solog} (f the Lungs, and in Cures. H E Lungs being an aggregate Body, made up of many parts, is fubjeét alfo to variety of DifEafes, quiz. An Inflammation, Abl'cefTe, Ulcer, Empyema, Aflbma, Cough, Spitting ofBlood, aid the Dr0pfy of the Breai'c, évt. A Periyneumom‘a is an Inflammation of the Lungs, attended with an acute Fever, at Cough, difficulty of Breathing , and Rednefs of the Checks 3 the Patient afleéted with this Difeafe, findeth a great @blogofir in the Breaft, accompanied {ometimes with heavy,dull,and other times with a pricking pain, Lungs. a great Thirf't, Refilefiiels, and fpitting of Blood; whenceitmay be inter- fmall branches of the Bronchial Artery 3 and when the fmall Pipes of the Bron- chia are comprefl'ed by the extravalated Blood fetled in the empty {paces ofthe Vellels, caufing an Inflammation, fwelling of the Lungs, and difficulty of Breathing. This Difeafe, ( as I humbly conceive) proceedeth from a Pblngofi: ofthe Blood, (making an Ebullition in the Lungs ) and from its grofsnefs, as often mixed with a crude Chyme, {topping the numerous fmall Bronchial Veil fels of Blood. This aflertion may be made good, that the obflzruc‘tion of the minute Sanguidué‘ts, is derived from a vifcide grol's Blood, by reafon the Blood let out of the Vein, when cool, is covered witha White clammy skin, which is nothing elfe, as I conceive, but concreted crude Chyme, not capa‘ ble to be broken into fmall Particles, and perfefily aflimilated into Blood 5 f0 that the Blood being affociated with the indigef'ted clammy Liquor, and other grofs recrements, doth fometimes obfirué‘t the {mall branches of the bronchial Artery, and other times is extravafated in the Interfiices of the Veffels; whereupon it acquireth an Ebullition, as having left its due circu- lation in the Lun 5. And fithhermore, the fulphureous Particles of the Blood, being embo-‘ died with the Saline and Earthy ( when they are too much exalted by an unnatural Fermentation) the vital Liquor is highly incraffated, and grow- Cth ropy ( fomewhat refembling over-fermented Wine acquiring a glutinous difpofition ) produétive of an Inflammation of the Lungs. It is oftentimes obferved by Learned Authors, that the Inflammation of do hinder the definition of thin and hot Humors, into the membranous Com' t e Lungs is fometimes a fore-runner, and other times a Confequent , and oftentimes aConcomitant of the Pleurific 5 Upon which, great inquiries have been made, by What ways the Morbifick Matter can be tranflated from the Lungs to the Pleura, or from the laft to the former; fame conceive, that fome part of the Blood being difcharged the fi'leura into the Cavity of the Breaflt, may be fucked up into the Lungs, after the manner of a Spunge, Which {cemeth to oppofe the Oeconomy of Nature, who hath clothed the Lungs page of the Lungs. rion ofthe red, thatthisdifaffbélion taketh its rife from the immoderate efl'ervefccnce of the Blood, Pragnated in the [mall Blood-veIIels, lodged in the Bronchia or membranous Sinus, or from Blood, extravafated in the Interfiices of the Vefiels 5 whereupon the VefTels of Blood are fwelled, in an obliruéiion of the &orals, as the Decoé‘tion prefctibed in our London fiifpenfiztbry; as alfo 6091' inngmulfions made of the Seeds of Melons, PompionsyWhite Poppy, 0‘" wlnch do allay the heat of the Blood; and by their mucilaginous tempt": Aninflamma- The tanfc of an Inflammafi tionofthc Lungs. |
