ocation the patient experiences the greatest
difficulty in breathing. When warning is given, there is usually a sense
of fullness in the stomach, flatulence, languor, and general nervous
irritability. The countenance is a picture of anxiety and horror. The
difficulty of breathing increases and the struggle for air commences.
Windows and doors are thrown open, fans used, and, utterly regardless of
consequences, the sufferer passes the whole night in exposure and
torture, even though the temperature be below zero. Fearing suffocation,
the patient dare not lie down; he rushes to the window for air, rests
his head upon a table or chair, or upon his hands, with the elbows upon
the knees, jumps up suddenly and gasps and struggles for air. The eyes
are prominent and the veins of the forehead distended with blood;
sometimes the bowels are relaxed. The urine is colorless and is passed
in copious quantities. This symptom indicates great excitement of the
nervous system. The voice is hoarse, articulation difficult, breathing
limited, noisy and wheezy. The _wheezing_ is pathognomonic of the
disease. It can only be confounded with croup, and then only in the
young. In croup there is pain and difficulty in swallowing, fever and
cough, which are usually absent in asthma. A severe paroxysm of asthma
is very distressing to witness, and one unused to it might well suppose
the sufferer to be in his last agonies. No definite limit can be
assigned to the duration of the attack or of the disease. It may last
but a few minutes, may endure for hours, or with slight remission
continue for days. The condition of the patient may be for years as
changeable as the pointings of the weather-vane. In fact, the atmosphere
has much to do with the disease. With every approaching storm, with
every cloud of dust, even the dust from sweeping a room, with every foul
odor, and, in some more sensitive organizations, with even the perfume
of flowers, a paroxysm is provoked. Truly he is a "child of
circumstances," a veritable football upon the toes of every atmospheric
disturbance.

UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.

Persons affected with asthma or phthisic are numerous. With such an
amount of suffering in our midst is it not a marvel, if not a disgrace,
that the medical profession of to-day endorse the opinions of a half
century ago and pronounce it incurable, rather than make stupendous and
laudable efforts to discover plans of medication that will result in
certain