I found good
Effects from equal Parts of Milk and Water boiled with Rose Leaves,
Pomegranate Bark, Balaustine Flowers, and Cinnamon, as recommended by
Dr. _Mead_ in his _Monita Medica_[58]; it served both for Food and
Medicine.--When Opiates and Astringents were given to stop the Purging
at its first Appearance, before the Bowels were emptied, they always
did Mischief; and increased the Heat and Fever: And although they
stopt the Purging for a few Hours, it always broke out with greater
Violence afterwards.

[58] _Sect._ x. _de Febrib. lentis sive Hecticis._

When the Sick were attacked with a Shortness and Difficulty of
Breathing, which was not relieved by Evacuations, and the Use of
cooling Medicines, and Pectorals, and Blisters, nothing gave so much
Ease, or had such a good Effect, as a gentle Vomit; for it often
removed the immediate Oppression from the Breast, and helped to pump
up the Matter from the Lungs.

In the advanced State of the Consumption, the Cough was always very
troublesome; and the Sick found no Relief but from Opiate Medicines,
which, in such Cases, cannot be expected to do more than give a little
present Ease.--As they were apt to obstruct the free Expectoration, we
generally mixed them with some _oxymel scilliticum_, or _tinctura
foetida_, which took off a good deal of their suffocating Quality.

Dr. _Barry_[59] advises for the Cure of a Consumption, to make an
Incision or Aperture into the Side; where-ever there is a fixed Pain
attended with a Weight, a Hectic Fever, and other Symptoms of an
evident Suppuration: He says the Pleura is thickened, and the Lungs
adhere at the Part where they are exulcerated; and that by the
Operation the Pus may be evacuated, and a Cure made; and he gives
several Instances of the Success of the Operation, when performed in
Time.

[59] _Treatise on the Digestions_, p. 410.

OF THE Epidemical CATARRHAL FEVER Of APRIL, 1762; CALLED, THE
INFLUENZA.

After a very cold severe Winter at _Bremen_, the Weather, from being
very cold, became of a sudden extremely hot, about the 10th of
_April_. In a few Days after, many People were seized with a violent
Catarrhal Disorder. It often began with such a Cold and Shivering,
that many imagined at first that they were going to have Agues; but
soon after they were attacked with a Cough, and a Difficulty of
Breathing, and Pain of the Breast, with a Head-Ach, and Pains all over
the Body, especially in the Limbs