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give a tablespoonfnl of the decoction every two hours. Let the 

 patient drink freely of buttermilk, vinegar and water, lemonade, 

 or orano-e juice. After the tumors burst gargle the throat with a 

 tea of sage and hyssop sweetened with honey. 



Bronchitis is accompanied by chillines* and fever, a Tiard, dry, 

 painful cough, pain and soreness at the upper part of the breast 

 bone, more or less raising of phlegm, and pain aci'oss the brow, in- 

 creased by coughing. The treatment is the same as for fevers, in 

 addition to which give Prescription No. 5, to relieve the cough 

 Keep the patient warm and on a light diet. A drink of 

 flaxseed or slippery elm tea, with the addition of lemon juice or 

 vinegar is beneficial. 



Catarrh. Influenza. — Symptoms. Sneezing; weight and pain 

 in the head, especially the forehead ; difficult breathing ; stopping 

 of the nose, and a feeling of pressure at the base of the nose ; eyes 

 red and watery ; sore throat, dry cough, aching limbs, fever, 

 phlegm and discharges from the nose and eyes. Keep warm, 

 dry, and quiet. Soak the feet daily in warm water, drink warm 

 lemonade, spearmint tea, etc. Reduce your diet to warm gruels, 

 and pursue this course until cured. You may thus escape per- 

 haps those fatal diseases of the throat and lungs which carry so 

 many thousands to their graves. Persons subject to colds and 

 catarrh should bathe the throat and neck, and create a friction by 

 the use of a brush or crash towel, sponging the whole body with 

 salt and water. 



Diseases op the Lungs are the result of neglected colds, 

 catarrh or bronchial, difficulties, and it is a part of wisdom, espe- 

 cially with those who inlierit any tendency to consumption, to at- 

 tend scrupulously to any affections of the throat. Of late 3^ear3 

 we have concluded that medicines poured into the stomach for the 

 healing of the lungs are seldom of any benefit. Pure codliver oil 

 may sometimes be of temporary service; but modern medical 

 science treats the lungs b}^ inhalation. Of course whatever is in- 

 haled goes directly to the lungs, the seat of the disease. Medi- 

 cated vapors of various kinds are superseding the use of drugs in 

 diseases of the lungs. Among the best of these remedial agents 

 we place that known as " oxygenized air.'^ Oxygen being the food 

 of the lungs, a large proportion of it is inhaled, and the effects in 

 all throat and lung diffiulties are speedy and favorable. The 

 writer having both seen and experienced its good effects, confi- 

 dently holds it up to inspire the hopes of those who feel consump- 

 tion fastening itself upon their systems. Offices where this " oxy- 

 genized air" is administered have been established in all the 

 larger cities, and we trust will be speedily extended to every town, 

 village, and borough. 



Diphtheria. — Symptoms. Intermittent fever; sore throat; de- 

 pression; difficult breathing; tonsils and other parts of the 



