Chin Cough

_Hazel: _ You had the chin-cough passed and you rising. ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)

Take care would the madness catch on to ourselves the same as the chin-cough or the pock. ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)

Our neighbour Mrs Grassie, a widow woman, unco intimate with our wife, and very attentive to Benjie when he had the chin-cough, had a far-away cousin of the name of Glen, that held out among the howes of the ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

At which time I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. McCorkle2 but could not get time enough to write a letter to you -- This morning I heard from Mrs. Hogan that your family was well except Heriot who is ill with the chin-cough -- I would have been very happy in receiving a few lines by her. ❋ Unknown (1800)

The chin-cough seems to resemble the gonorrhoea venerea in several circumstances. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

A peripneumony frequently occurs in the chin-cough, and destroys the patient, except immediate recourse be had to the lancet, or to four or five leeches; when blood cannot be otherwise taken. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

At this time also change of air is of material consequence, and often removes the cough like a charm, as mentioned in a similar situation at the end of the chin-cough. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

It may in this respect be compared to the ulcers in the pulmonary consumption; but it differs in this, that in chin-cough some branches of the bronchia heal, as others become inflamed. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Epidemical difeafes feldom make their appearance, excepting flfteafles, fmaU-pox, and chin-cough. ❋ Unknown (1791)

"In Staffordshire, it is commonly said, if you want to cure chin-cough, take out the child and let it look at the new moon; lift up its clothes and rub your right hand up and down its stomach, and repeat the following lines (looking steadfastly at the moon, and rubbing at the same time): -- ❋ Timothy Harley (N/A)