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of senega and ipecac, each, J^ oz. ; syrup of tolu, 2 ozs; syrup of wild cherry, 

 6 ozs; tincture of lobelia, J^ oz. Mix. Dose — Shaken when used; 1 tea- 

 cpoonful 3 or 4 times daily for «dults. I have sipped it oftener than this with- 

 out sickening at the stomach. Tiiat is all that needs guarding against. Chil- 

 dren 5 to 20 drops, according to age. I believe I would sooner risk it than 

 Ayer's, which follows: 



17. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, for Coughs, Colds, Consump- 

 tion, etc. — Tinct. of blood root, 2 ozs. ; antimonial wine and wine of ipecac, 

 of each 3 drs. ; syrup of wild cherry, 2 ozs. ; acetate of morphia, 4 grs. ; mix. 

 Dose — Take 1 tea-spoonful 3 or 4 times daily; or sip a little, as the cough is 

 troublesome; and if nausea is felt take less, or stop until the nausea passes off. 

 — Druggist Circular. 



Bemark».—A.nd now allow me to say, with all the recipes here given, there 

 need be but little suffering with coughs, colds and consumption in its com- 

 mencement, as compared with what it must have continued to be without this 

 knowledge. I will close this subject with a cough syrup given by Dr. Hildreths, 

 of Zanesville, Ohio, as follows: 



18. Cough Syrup, Very Valuable in Recent Colds. — Pare- 

 goric, 13^ ozs.; tinct. of capsicum, 1 dr.; tinct. of tolu, 3 ozs. Dose — A tea- 

 spoonful every 3 hours, in a little water. 



Remarks.— Dr. Hildreth has had a long experience in the practice of med- 

 icine, and this was his dependence in recent colds, I once heard a man say: 

 "Paregoric is the. best cough medicine I ever used," which showe(? his opinion, 

 at least, of the value of one of the articles in this syrup. The combination 

 will be found indeed valuable. 



1, WHOOPING COUGH— Remedy for.— A paper recently read 

 before tlic New York Academy of Science, by Dr. H. A. Mott, holds that much 

 of the mortality among children from whooping cough is attributable to the 

 prevalent faulty belief that it will be much worse for the child if the disease is 

 •oroken up. He says: The disease is now known to be caused by a fungoid 

 growth (in plants, growing quickly like mushrooms, coming up in a night; but 

 in animal bodies being slower in growth and being much of the character of 

 proud flesh, but below he calls them spores, which indicates them to be more 

 of the nature of an animal parasite), which begins under the tongue, and 

 spreads backward to the throat and lungs, the spores requiring from 9 to 15 

 days to develop. When the fungus enters the bronchial tubes, most alarming 

 complications arise. It is, then, best to kill the fungus in its earliest stage; 

 there would then seldom be any trouble from bronchitis, cholera infantum, or 

 cerebral (head) difficulties. Quinine, just after a coughing spell, and before 

 retiring for the night, is the best remedy. 



Remarks. — I have had no opportunity to try this remedy, yet I do not 

 doubt its value, for some physicians claim that even chills and fever are devel- 

 oped hj spores. Then as quinine does cure ague may it not be by killing the 

 spores? most likely. Then, by all means try the quinine immediately after it 

 is known that a child, or anyone, has been exposed; and if it does not entirely 



