often attend, and indicate the tendency to a fit: he awakes in restless anxiety, and is obliged to toss about, and change his posture, or sit up in bed, in expectation of relief; but, owing to the increase of the spasms, his breathing becomes increasingly impeded, and he pants for breath with unspeakable anxiety. He should then get up, and drink freely of the infusion recommended in Consumption (page 10); and take a dose of the Balsam incorporated with honey, which will promote the expectoration, and generally carry off the fit. The heat of the bed, and the posture of lying, both increase the complaint. As aperients, judiciously combined with bitters, tonics, stimulants, or antispasmodics, with a view of promoting the abdominal secretions, without depressing the vital energies, and of deriving from the lungs any accumulation of morbid matter which cannot be expectorated; such a combination _with_ Camphor, as contained in “Dr. Flemming’s Quinine and Camphor Pills” (prepared by the Author in boxes at 4_s._ 6_d._ each, containing a Treatise on Indigestion, Diet, and Regimen, &c.) is peculiarly serviceable in this disorder, TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BALSAM, in sufficient doses to remove the accumulation of bile in the biliary organs, and of the _sordes_ retained in the mucus surface of the bowels; and it should be observed that purgatives are always better borne when combined with Camphor, and are then most proper in all stages of the disease. When expectoration is rendered difficult, and the cough suffocating, from the tenacity and consistency of the matter, as is not unfrequently the case, the Balsam, in conjunction with the “Camphor Pills” alluded to, will be found an invaluable remedy. The virtues of Camphor in this disease have been singularly overlooked by the writers on this subject, _as an adjunct_ to other balsamics, pectorals, and expectorants; but administered in this form, it is doubtless the most valuable remedy we possess in this, as well as in several other diseases, and particularly of those consequent on debility or disorder in the digestive organs, which require a tonic, and a stimulating remedy. When the bowels require evacuation, strong purgatives must on no account be resorted to: because such measures tend very considerably to check and diminish expectoration; but gentle aperients of a cooling nature should not be neglected, when a tendency to constipation points out the need of a remedy to relieve the system, and nothing can be better adapted for that purpose than the foregoing combination. By recourse to these means, the lengthened fits of Asthma will be prevented; and if the disease be established in the constitution, a due perseverance with the remedy will effectually eradicate every symptom.