(seq. 66)

Consumption Nervous

A Nervous Atrophy or Phtisie is a wasting of
the Body without any Remarkable Fever
Cough or Difficulty of Breathing but is attended
with want of Appetite a bad Digestion; whence
the Whole Body grows languid, and is continually
falling away
At first the Body is edematous as it were Staffed
with a Vapid Chyle. The Face looks pale and bloated
and the Stomachs loaths every things but liquids
The patient is obliged to keep his Bed sooner than
the progress of the Decay of his Flesh seems to
Require. the Colour of the Urine is uncertain
but is generally very Red and small in Quantity.
Sometimes it is Pale and Copious
No Considerable Fever is discernable either by
the Pulse, Heat or thirst, though the Urine
is ever so Red.
Violent Passions, spiritous liquors, unwholesome
Air are the Cause of this Disease
It is difficult to cure unless Proper Care is
taken It Generally Carries the Patient off in
a Dropsy
Cure Chalybeates, Antiscorbutics, Cephalics
and Bitters are proper
Tinct. Sacc. Elix Aloes, Vin. alb. cum Bitters,
Elix. Vit. Vin. Chalybeated. Spaw waters, Vin.
amar s. Comm. drink Decoct. Absinth. Spt. C. C.
Sal. Ammoniac. Empl. Stomach. to Umbillica

and Scrophulous

This is known by Glandulous Tumours
in die Outward Part of the Body and from the
Frequent Returns of Sore Eyes and the
Itch. Some have Scrophulous Tubercles
of the Lungs which are not apt
to be inflamed and who live in a
Consumptive Condition from their
youth till their Old Age, and yet
have a Constant Cough Day and Night
and at all Seasons of the Year with
a heaviness in the Breast and difficulty
of Breathing, but without any
Fever and yet without taking Cold, to
which they are Obnoxious, they Expectorate
plenty of Phlegm or Serous
matter these may be cured by a
good Air, in an Open Sunny place
but frequently Changed together
with a long use of Balsamics, Mercurials
Mellepedes Chalybeates, Min. Waters
and other Antiscrophulous Remedies
a Milk Diet, Pectorals and Opiates
are of Little Service unless when
a Cold is newly caught
A Decoct. Colts foot is good in the
worst Cases.