88 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



upon the pit of the stomach, immediately below the cartilage forming the end 

 of the breast-bone, and making firm pressure. Should this prove unsuccessful, 

 place a firm roll of muslin on the same place, securing it by a bandage bound 

 tightly around the body. In an hour this may be removed, and it will be 

 found that the hiccough has entirely disappeared. 



Remarks. — The cure in this case is by the pressure, preventing the spas- 

 modic action of the diaphragm, which is the cause of hiccoughs. 



BILIOUSNESS, BILIOUS FEVER, FEVER AND AGUE, 



CHILLS AND FEVER, INTERMITTENT FEVER, 



PERIODIC FEVER, ETC. 



BILIOUSNESS. — The symptoms are too well known to need describ. 

 ing. If your bones ache, and you feel languid, your mouth tastes unpleasant, 

 etc., you are bilious, and if you don't remedy It soon your complexion will be 



Cholagogue or Bilious Tonic— Quinine, 1 dr.; oil of wintergreen, 1 

 teaspoonful; oil of peppermint, 5 drops; oil of lemon, 15 drops; alcohol, 

 3^ pt.; water, % pt. ; sulphuric acid, 30 drops. Mix well, then add red Peru- 

 vian bark, finely pulverized, 2 ozs. ; rheubarb root, also finely pulverized, 



2 ozs. ; simple syrup, or molasses, to make all 1 qt. Those who are acted upon 

 easily by cathartics can not bear more than half of this quantity of rheubarb. 

 Let such have it made accordingly — the object of its use is to just keep the 

 bowels solvent, not loose like diarrhoea. 



The quinine, oils and acid should be put into the alcohol first, then the 

 water, and afterwards the bark and rheubarb, and then the syrup; or what 

 would be a little more palatable, would be to steep the Peruvian bark and 

 rheubarb root in as little water as will answer, then strain off into the mixture 

 and steep again, to get all the strength, by pressing out the second time; then 

 make up the quart with syrup, as this avoids the sedjment of the bark and root 

 in taking off the medicine, as some people object to taking the medicine with 

 the powderi In it. It may be taken at once, if well shaken; or. If shaken 



3 or 3 times daily for a week, after that It may be taken without shaking, as 

 the strength of the Peruvian bark and rheubarb will by that time be extracted. 

 Dose — For an adult, 1 or 2 tea-spoonfuls 4 times daily, at meals and bed-time; 

 for a child of 12 years, half dose. If very bilious take a full cathartic dose of 

 rheubarb or such other cathartic medicine as you are in the habit of using, or 

 prefer, to move the bowels freely. 



Remarks.— Thi^ will be found a very valuable tonic in all cases requiring 

 one, and is absolutely the best known remedy for biliousness. If a person 

 inclined to be bilious will take this every spring and fall, they will not be 

 troubled. It will break up 99-100 of all the agues and remittent fevers in a few 

 days; if not, repeat the cathartic, and continue the Cholagogue until the work 

 is accomplished— ^never try to "wear out the ague"; it will either wear you 



