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For pin-worms, give IPEC., LYC. and VERAT. in rotation, one 

 week each, three doses per day. 



For repetition of dose, see page 456 . 



WHOOPING COUGH. 



In the beginning, feverish, dry cough; child grasps at throat 

 every time it coughs ; restlessness ; give ACONITE. 



Child gets very red in the face with every coughing spell ; (gets 

 blue, Ipecac); hard cough in paroxysms, without expectoration 

 BELLADONNA. 



Cough after eating or drinking, with pain in chest and with 

 vomiting; great thirst; useful in first stages BRYONIA. 



Last stages ; great exhaustion after every coughing spell, with 

 blue skin, cold sweat; coughing and vomiting after every meal 

 CARBO VEG. 



Child very fretful; must be carried all the time; green, watery 

 corroding diarrhea CHAMOMILLA. 



Picking of nose ; worm symptoms ; child becomes stiff during 

 paroxygm or coughing; blue around mouth CINA. 



Violent paroxysms of cough ; child becomes rigid as if dead ; 

 vomiting after paroxysm ; a swallow of cold water relieves the cough, 

 CUPRUM. 



Worse about twelve at night; violent paroxysms; child almost 

 suffocates ; bleeding from nose and mouth DROSERA. 



Child becomes stiff and blue in the face, chest seems full of 

 mucus, but does not yield to coughing; (similar to Tart. Em.), vom- 

 iting mucus IPECAC. 



PULLSATILLA, said by some to be a great remedy to give as a 

 preventive, and in the beginning of an attack. Blue eyes, blonde 

 hair, loose cough with profuse expectoration. 



Constant rubbing of nose and face during cough; sneezes dur- 

 ing cough; water at nose and eyes; cough excited by cold drink 

 (Opp. Cup.) SQUILLA. 



Cough preceded, by crying; rattling cough; chest seems full 

 of mucus, but does not yield to coughing (Ipec.); nausea and vom- 

 iting, with cold sweat on head TARTAR EMETIC. 



Convulsive stage ; worse in the spring and fall ; child exhausted 

 after every coughing spell, with cold sweat on forehead ; attacks 

 occur on entering a room, and from drinking cold water; (see 

 Squilla) YERAT. ALB. 



For repetition of dose, see page 456. 



DISORDERS OF NURSING. 

 Sore Nipples. 



In first days, when nipples feel sore or bruised, ARNICA tincture 

 diluted with water locally, and ARNICA taken inwardly will relieve. 



