THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 730 



throat swollen and covered with a white coating; urine abundant • 

 bowels constipated at first, followed by diarrheoea. ' 



Treatment. An even temperature, a well ventilated room and 

 the most perfect quiet are desirable. If the patient be in full 

 strength/svhen attaclced, first give an emetic, but if weak this 

 must be omitted. Move the bowels lightly with mild cathartics 

 Cleanse the throat and apply nitrate of silver to all the swollen 

 parts in the throat. One drachm of nitrate of silver in an ounce 

 of water is the proper proportion. Apply the solution everv day. 

 Sprinkle in the throat often the following mixture one 'table- 

 spoonful each of salt and vinegar, mixed with a teaspoonful of 

 boiling Avater; this may also be injected up the nostrils when 

 they are getting filled up. Feed the patient the most nourishing 

 drinks as beef or mutton tea, eggs and wine, wine whey, ale, boiled 

 milk, etc. 



Pleurisy. — Symptoins. Ordinary fevei symptoms; pinching 

 pain on one side, increased by breathing, wnich makes the person 

 breathe quick and short; often a dry, hacking cough. Sweat the 

 patient profusely, then keep the affected side covered with a hot 

 fomentation of bitter herbs, changing them as soon as they get 

 tepid. Boneset, tansy, catnip, hops, wormwood, hoarhound.or 

 Saint John's wort may be used as they can be procured. Great 

 care should be taken for several days to guard against exposure. 

 If after the sweat pain and difficulty of breathing rema-n, give an 

 emetic, followed by a cathartic, If the cough remains, give an ex- 

 pectorant of wild cherry and bloodroot, or Prescription No.2. 



Inflammation of the Stomach. — Gastritis. — Symptoms burn 

 ing pain at the pit of the stomach, increased by pressure or by 

 swallowing; nausea and frequent vomiting, thirst, fever, dejection, 

 prostration, and costiveness. ^Apply mustard poultices to the 

 feet, the pit of the stomach, and along the whole course of the 

 back bone. When these have produced redness without blister- 

 ing remove them, and apply to the pit of the stomach hot fomen- 

 tations of bitter herbs, hops, and lobelia leaves, or hops and jimson 

 leaves, changing them before they become cool. In addition tc» 

 this, if the symptoms should still continue severe, bathe the whole 

 body in weak lye-water, drying with considerable friction. If the 

 bowels are constipated, inject molasses and water, or boneset ami 

 molasses ; but never give physic. Let the patient drink freely of 

 ^^um arabic water, or slippery elm and pe&ch leaf tea, or barley 

 \vater. Quiet, fresh air, and an equal temperature are desiralile. 

 As soon as recovery begins give hourly a teaspoonful of French 

 brandy, unless it should prove too stimulating. The diet sliould 

 be light for some time. 



Inflammation of the Bowels.— Symptoms and treatment same 

 as above, except that the pain is in the bowels, and the poultice 

 must be applied to the bowels instead of to the stomach. (Jive 

 an injection at once. 



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