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be more assiduously steamed and linseed tea may advantageously 

 replace fresh water as a beverage. If there is much sv^^elling and 

 tenderness of the glands a poultice should be applied to the 

 throat and between the jaws, and sulphur fumes as advised above, 

 or anodyne astringent insufflation powder may be resorted to. 

 Morphia chlorate two grains, bismuth nitrate, six drachms and 

 finely powdered gum arable three drachms may be blown into the 

 nostril during inspiration, or the astringent anodyne injection 

 advised below for chronic catarrh may be used. Cocaine spray 

 is often very helpful, or the same agent may be used in the liquid 

 form on cotton wool inserted in the nasal chamber. If this is 

 without effect a weak continuous current of electricity will cause 

 constriction and give prompt relief. It may be repeated every 

 few hours. In the absence of this the emanations from a weak 

 solution of ammonia or from carbonate of ammonia may be used. 

 In cases with excessive and persistent muco-purulent discharge, 

 with presumptive infection from outside sources, or in the young, 

 from the diseased maternal passages, insufflation with calomel, 

 painting with a two grains to the ounce solution of nitrate of 

 silver, or injection with some other germicide may be resorted to. 

 In case the fever is of a low type, liquor of the acetate of am- 

 monia (4 ozs.), sal-ammoniac (^ oz.), or even carbonate of am- 

 monia {yT, oz.), may be given several times a day, with sweet 

 spirits of nitre (>^ oz.) and tincture of gentian (i oz.) Alco- 

 holic stimulants are often used. Inhalations of iodine and iodide 

 of potassium with ether and chloroform are often successful. 



