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The periods of rhaphania, or convulsions of the limbs from rheumatic pains, seem to be connected with solar influence, returning at nearly the same hour for weeks together, unless disturbed by the exhibition of powerful doses of opium. So the periods of Tussis ferina, or violent cough with slow pulse, called nervous cough, recurs by solar periods.
"Let any signor apply this box to his nostrils and he will find an honest odour of medicaments not indeed of pounded gems, or rare vegetables from the East, or stones found in the bodies of birds; for I practise on the diseases of the vulgar, for whom heaven has provided cheaper and less powerful remedies according to their degree: and there are even remedies known to our science which are entirely free of cost as the new tussis may be counteracted in the poor, who can pay for no specifics, by a resolute holding of the breath.
Lawrence concerning his own health, to use the Latin language . I have been favoured by Miss Lawrence with one of these letters as a specimen: 'T. LAWRENCIO, Medico, S. 'NOVUM frigus, nova tussis, nova spirandi difficultas, novam sanguinis missionem suadent, quam tamen te inconsulto nolim fieri. Ad te venire vix possum, nec est cur ad me venias.