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WHOOPING COUGH. 
Use the cold bath daily; or rub thoroughly with hog’s_ 
lard when going to bed, and heat it in well by the fire—keep 
the child warm ; or rub the back at going to bed with old - 
rum ; or give a spoonful of the juice of pennyroyal mixed 
with a sugar candy twice a day; or one-half pint of 
new milk, warm from the cow, with one-half ounce of nut- 
meg pulverized with one ounce of rose leaves and three 
ounces of sugat—beat together, and dissolve in the milk— 
every morning taken freely. In desperate cases por of 
air. alone, has cured. : | en 
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Peel, slice and fry one pound of white onions in ilies gills 
of best olive oil till it is tender, then boil this in one quart of - 
water, strain it, and drink a wine-glassful every morning, one- 
half hour before breakfast, for fifteen or twenty days before 
the time of child-birth. Also drink ¢ a tea nae of | wecemer 
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TO. DISSOLVE COAGULATED BLOOD. 
Bind on the part for some hours a paste made of black 
soap and crumbs of white bread; or grate burdock roots 
spread on a cloth—renew this two or three times a day. 
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HABITUAL COLIC, - 
I never found a better way than is taken in the Bilious 
Colic, omitting the warm berth, although not injurious. The 
stomach and bowels must be cleansed, and the blood purified, 
before health can be restored. Cold bathing is good in all 
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