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SIMPLE REMEDY FOR COUGHS. 



Take of boiling water, half a pint ; black currant jelly, 

 a dessert-spoonful ; sweet spirits of nitre, a tea-spoonful. 

 Mix the jelly in the water first, till it is quite dissolved, 

 and add the nitre last. Take a dessert-spoonful of the 

 mixture at night, going to bed, or when the cough is 

 troublesome. The mixture should be made and kept in 

 a tea-pot, or other covered vessel. 



REMEDY FOR CHRONIC COUGH. 



The following is very serviceable in common obstinate 

 coughs, unattended with fever. Take of tincture of tolu, 

 three drachms ; elixir of paregoric, half an ounce ; tincture 

 of squills, one drachm. Two tea-spoonsful to be taken 

 in a tumbler of barley-water going to bed, and when the 

 cough is troublesome. 



FOR COUGHS IN AGED PERSONS. 



In the coughs of aged persons, or in cases where there 

 are large accumulations of purulent or viscid matter, 

 with feeble expectoration, the following mixture will be 

 found highly beneficial : Pour gradually two drachms of 

 nitric acid, diluted in half a pint of water, on two drachms 

 of gum ammoniac, and triturate them in a glass mortar, 

 until the gum is dissolved. A table-spoonful to be taken, 

 in sweetened water, every two or three hours. 



GARGLE FOR SORE THROAT. 



Take of decoction of bark, seven ounces ; tincture of 

 rryrrh, two drachms ; nitre, three drachms. Make into 

 a gargle. This is a sovereign method to disperse a tume- 

 fied gland, or common sore throat. By taking on such 

 occasions a small lump of purified nitre, putting it into the 



