192 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES, 



If this does not afford relief, or only partial relief, give an emetic of the com- 

 pound powder of lobelia, and follow it with the compound powder of jalap, 

 or the compouiid powder of leptandrin, or prescription as physic: Pulverized 

 gamboge, 12 grs. ; pulverized scammony, 12 grs. ; elaterium, 2 grs. ; croton oil, 

 8 drops; ex. of stramonium, 3 grs. Mix. Make 12 pills. One pill is a dose, 

 repeated every hour until it operates. At the same time keeping up the per- 

 spiration, with full doses of tincture of veratrum. 



To produce sleep and perspiration at the same time, Dover's powder may 

 be given in 6 grain doses. 



For the fever, nothing is equal to the tincture of veratrum viride. 



The diet must be of the very lightest kind. 



"When absorption of the fluid does not take place, a puncture is sometimes 

 made through the walls of the chest, and the water drawn off. This operation 

 is called paracentesis thoracis, and is generally, in uncomplicated cases, entirely 

 succefifexul. When this is not done, let the affected side be painted daily with 

 tincture of iodine, keepiog up considerable soreness, and giving iodide of 

 potassium at the same time. 



Fluid ex. of sarsaparilla, 4 ozs. ; fluid ex. of pipsissewa, 1 oz.; water, 1 

 •qt. ; iodide of potassium 2 ozs. Mix. Take a table-spoonful 3 times a day. 



RICKETS. — This is also a disease of scrofulous children. By some bad 

 process of nutrition in such children, there does not enough phosphate of lime 

 enter into the bones to harden them, and the weight of the body, or the pulling 

 of the muscles, or the pressure of the clothing, bends and distorts them in all 

 manner of ways. The heads of the thigh bones are pushed nearer together 

 making the lower belly narrower, the backbone is so curved as to lessen the 

 height; the shoulder blades stand up like wings when flying is contemplated; 

 and the shoulders are so lifted up that the head seems only a little higher than 

 the elevations on each side. 



Treatment. — A good, generous, wholesome diet, properly regulated; out 

 door exercise; the tepid or cold salt water sponge bath, with friction, and but 

 little medicine. The hypophosphite of lime, in 2 gr. doses, given in a little 

 sweetened water, 3 times a day, or the syrup of the hypophosphites, in )^ 

 tea-spoonful doses, 3 times a day, may be given with advantage. 



SHINGLES.— Treatment.— Light diet and gentle laxatives. If the 

 patient be advanced in life, and feeble the following tonic will be desirable: 



1. Bicarbonate of soda, 3^oz. ; compound infusion of gentian, 4 ozs.; 

 tincture of Colombo, 1 oz. ; syrup of orange peel, ^ oz. Mix. Take a table- 

 Bpoonful 3 times a day. 



For external application- 



2. White Vitriol, 1 dr.; rose water, 3 ozs. Mix. Apply outwardly. 

 Or the following ointments: 



3. Sulphuret of lime, 1 dr.; camphoti in powder, 15 grs.; lard, 1 oz. 

 Make an ointment. 



4. Elder-flower ointment, 1 oz. ; oxide of zinc, 1 dr. Make an ointment 



