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bifurcation of the right bronchus. By inflating the lungs, and then making a 

 strong effort at expiration, the ' piece ' would rise into the trachea, but when it 

 reached the glottis suffocation was so imminent he was forced to allow it to 

 descend. When he first made his situation known to me, three hours after the 

 occurrence of the accident, he said he could feel the 'bit' resting directly 

 under the right nipple, and that the parts at this point had become quite sore. 



" While the piece was yet movable, and had not yet found a lodgement, I 

 determined to try the experiment of vomiting, with the hope that in the spas- 

 modic effort of retching and coughing it might be ejected. In this I was not 

 disappointed, for in the very first effort it was thrown out to the distance of 

 several feet, with considerable force. I also send you the ' bit ' with which 

 this strange experiment was made, supposing that possibly the case might 

 interest our society." 



Remarks. — I have given this to show not only the danger of thus throwing 

 pieces of money into the mouth, which I have often seen done, but also to say 

 it is dangerous to allow small children to have small pieces of money to play 

 with, for the mouth is about the first place they put it; but if a piece lodges in 

 the throat, no time should be lost in trying one of the quick emetics found in 

 "Accidental Poisoning." 



2. Vomiting and Watery Discharges, to Check in Cholera. 



— Black pepper, in powder, fine table salt, each 1 tea-spoonful; vinegar, 5 tea- 

 spoonfuls; hot water, % tumbler. Dose — A table-spoonful every 5, 10 or 15 

 minutes, as circumstances required, speedily checked vomiting, abated the 

 watery discharges and removed the cramps. It succeeded in many cases where 

 every other means had failed. 



Remarks. — This was during the Cincinnati cholera in 1849 50-51, when the 

 eclectics saved hundreds of their patients in this disease, while other branches 

 of the profession lost most of theirs. This is no fancy statement, simply for 

 effect, but is susceptible of proof, and it was by simple common sense reme- 

 dies, like this, that it was done. 



1. SCROFULA, PILES AND RHEUMATISM. — Cure for. 

 Sulphur, cream of tartar, and licorice root, equal parts of each, all finely 

 pulverized, J^ part nitre, and put into just honey enough to mix like mush. 

 Dose— One tea-spoonful )| hour before eating, 3 times a day, for 3 days; then 

 cease 3 days, continuing until a cure is effected. But after the first 3 days, J^ 

 tea-spoonful doses will be as much as can be taken without making the bowels 

 too loose. It may be made into pill form by using only honey enough to 

 dampen. Dose — In this way 3 good sized pills, before each meal, as the other. 



Remarks. — This was communicated to me by a sister, at that time living in 

 Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, from the fact that a young girl, a Miss Conner, had been 

 cured by it, who had been under the doctor's care for over a year, without ben- 

 efit. Her breast and throat were covered with ulcers, deep and penetrating, so 

 when pressed up on one side of the neck, matter would ooze out of the other 

 side. Under these circumstances, the girl's mother (the wife of a barber) paid 

 $10 for this recipe, which cured the girl in a few weeks. At the time my sister 

 sent me this recipe, six years after the cure, the girl had had no returning symp- 

 toms of the disease. But the scars, my sister said, she would always carry. A 

 child had also been cured by the use of the same, whose head was a solid scab 



