Excerpt from A Dictionary of Practical Medicine, Vol. 2: Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders Especially Incidental to Climates, to the Sex, and to the Different Epochs of Life Henbane, and extract of popp J, may also be em ployed under similar circumstances and forms of combination. Tobacco has been prescribed in croup, in various modes. Dr. Vanderburgh and Dr. Godman recommended a plaster covered with Scotch snuti' to be applied across the top of the sternum and myself and others have employ ed this substance, with the view of detaching the false membrane by exciting sneezing and an in creased secretion of mucus. The smoke of tobacco has also been directed to be inhaled, in order to remove spasm, and promote expectoration, by its direct operation in the air-passages; and others have advised the patient to smoke a cigar, with the intention of producing nausea, as well as the other sfi'ects last enumerated. After depletion, and when the disease is about its acme, the powers of life not being materially exhausted, a cautious use of this means may be serviceable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.