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For Whooping Cough.
Dissolve a scruple of salts of tartar in a gill of water; put in half a scruple
of pulverized cochineal, sweeten it with loaf sugar; give an infant a
tea-spoonful of this mixture four times a day, and a child four years old or
upwards, a table-spoonful. In some cases the relief is instantaneous.
ANOTHER REMEDY.
Half a pint of honey, half a pint of vinegar, two table-spoonsful of sweet oil,
stewed together a few minutes; when cold put it in a bottle, and put in a
tea-spoonful of laudanum; shake it well, and give a table-spoonful when the
cough is troublesome, and a dose just before going to bed. For an infant of six
months, a small tea-spoonful is a dose, and for a child of four years, two
tea-spoonsful. Where there is not much fever, a little port or claret wine,
mixed with sugar and water, and taken with toast broken in it, is beneficial.
Children should be taken out riding if possible, and should be well wrapped up.
For the Croup.
Put the child in warm water, and keep up the temperature by putting in more hot
water; keep it in fifteen or twenty minutes, then wipe it dry and put it in a
warm bed, or wrap a blanket round it and hold it on the lap; give it an emetic,
and put powdered garlic and lard to the throat and soles of the feet; keep up
the perspiration, by giving a few drops of antimonial wine every half hour. The
next morning give it a dose of rhubarb tea or castor oil, and keep it from the
air for several days. This treatment has been very beneficial when a physician
was not at hand; and if
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