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progressively increases in violence, until at last the dyspnea becomes irrepressibly distre = ssing. The countenance, and motions, of the little patient, indicate the utmost degree of anguish and suffering; he sits up in bed and his struggles for breath are fri = ghtful; he throws his eyes around him as if imploring relief, when he lies down, he throws his head backward, and his mouth is kept open; the face is of a pale livid hue, his eyes are protruded and half clos = ed, his lips purple, his surface now bec = omes cold and clammy; death soon puts a stop to the patients sufferings.

Causes. _ One of the predisposing causes of Cynanche Trachealis seems to be hereditary; From the fact, that some families of child = ren will contract the disease by the slightest