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pass it up the nostril, by a circular motion, until it reach 

 the bleeding vessel, and let it remain for some hours. 

 Persons subject to this disease ought to keep such a plu"- 

 by their bed side. When the disease attacks growing 

 boys in high health, it may be prevented by an occasional 

 dose of physic, by avoiding severe exercise, and the use 

 of as little animal food as possible : but on the contrary, 

 when it appears in those of feeble constitutions, the diet 

 should be generous, a dose of Peruvian bark taken 

 occasionally to streni^then the system ; and a journey of 

 three weeks or a month performed in pleasant weather. 

 The powder of Puccoon or red-root snuffed up, will often 

 check a bleeding of the nose. 



Sprains. — Are to be cured by rest, supporting the limb 

 in a position higher than horizontal, day and night, and the 

 application of cloths dipped in cold salt and water to the 

 part. When stiffness remains, the part should be rubbed 

 gently twice or thrice a day with the hand, for ten minutes 

 at a time, a few drops of sweet oil being previously ap- 

 plied to the hand. If the ancle be the part affected, laced 

 boots should be worn to give a mechanical support to 

 the joint, and muscles covering it, after the person is able 

 to walk. 



Hooping Cough. — Give an emetic, and afterwards a 

 purge of calomel and jalap. To cut short the course of 

 the disease, let the child change the air every day or two; 

 and if, as is sometimes the case, the cough be very distres- 

 sing, apply a burgundy pitch plaster three inches broad, 

 half way down the spine, from the nape of the neck. The 

 part must be first wiped dry, and the edges of the plaster 

 snipped to make it lie smooth. As this is commonly a 

 trifling disease in children, and a serious one when it at- 

 tacks persons grown up, and no one can expect to escape 

 it, children should be exposed to those who have it, when 

 between ages of one and four, or five years. 



