_ 9 a soft piece of leather the size of the hand, and laid bety 
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twenty drops twice aday, on sugar. Nettle seeds mixed with honey, 
is no despicable remedy ; the size of a nutmeg to be taken night-and 
morning. Or, two ounces of garlic infused in a bottle of Madeira 
wine, a glass full night and morning. These are all good. . 
_ Preparations may also be made from skunk cabbage, elecam- 
pane, hoarhound, boneset, burdock, spikenard, pleurisy root, blood 
root, sumac, Indian hemp, lobelia, slippery elm, liquorice, flax- 
seed, &c. ; ee 
_ Aplaster of Burgundy pitch, about the size of a nutmeg, 
_ shoulder-blades, will wonderfully relieve a eough : it may be taken 
_ off and wiped every three or four days, and ought to be renewed 
_ __enee a fortnight. This is indeed acheap and simple medicine, and 
- @ptto be despised ; but we will venture to affirm that the whole 
__ materia medica does not afford an application more efficacious in 
every kind of cough. ‘This plaster draws off the humors, as may 
be known by the continual itching it occasions. 
bon 
= ‘seness is caused by the great effusion of acrid lymph upon 
the windpipe and organs of speech, so as to obstruct the passage of 
the airin the formation of the sound. This is only a degree of 
or, sweet oil, half an ounce at a dose ; or, half a piat of new milk, 
with a gill of sweet oil, warmed and drank ; or, half a pint of vine- 
gar and water, with a quarter of.a pound of butter dissolved in it, 
going to bed, are all very good. , : ; 
is a symptom of some. other malady, it is vain to 
ae “h cough may be distinguished from a lung cough 
by this: that, in the latter, the patient coughs where he draws: 
moved. This cough is as necessary as the pump of a ship is to throw 
_ Gut the bilge water that collects in the hold. Tho only proper way 
to alleviate this, is to use means to prevent the collection of this mat- 
ter in the chest, by restoring the general health and tone of the pig 
tem. When this is done, the cough dies of its own accord. 
Women, during the last stage of pregnancy, are often greatly — 
afflicted with a cough, which is generally relieved by keeping the 
body gently open. “A couglr is often a symptom or forerunner of 
other diseases, as the gout, measles, &c. pees 
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