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the patient, or the severity of the case, "with 15 to 30 drops of sulphuric 

 ether, put into a glass with a little water, and immediately drank, will almost 

 always give relief at once. This should not be taken often enough to establish 

 the habit of opium eating, which would prove a disease in itself, as bad as 

 asthma and as difficult to cure. 



4. Alterative Relaxing Anodyne, and Curative for Asthma. 

 — Ethereal tiuct. of lobelia and iodide of potash, each, 2 ozs. ; tinct. assafanida 

 (fetta), and laudanum, each, 1 oz. ; simple syrup, 4 ozs. Mix. Dose — From a 

 tea to a table-spoonful every hour or two, to relieve a paroxysm, for 3 or 4 

 doses. As a curative, after the paroxysm has subsided, take ihe same dose only 

 3 or 4 times a day. 



Remarks. — In closing the subject of asthma, I would say in addition only, 

 that according to the condition of the system, any existing difficulty, as costive- 

 ness, liver or kidney complaint, must be met and overcome on general prin- 

 ciples, that is, to treat them as you would if they existed alone. Do all. as per 

 instructions given under each head referred to, in connection with the above 

 items under this head, and very many cases of asthma will be cured, the general 

 opinion to the contrary, notwitlistanding. The condition of the surface, to 

 keep it clean and the blood fredy circulating therein, by the salt washings, dry 

 rubbings, etc., (which see), must not, in any case, be neglected in any long 

 standing disease. If neglected, it is at your own peril. 



1. JAUUDICE— Successful Remedies. — No matter how much 

 the liver may be affected, unless the stools are clay-colored, or, in other words, 

 without color, and the skin and the whites of the eyes yellow, it is not called 

 jaundice. "With the yellowness of the skin, there is generally constipation, 

 tongue heavily coated, mouth dry, appetite variable, and sometimes headache, 

 nausea, or vomiting. 



Treatment. — With eclectics it is claimed that the fl. ex. of chionanthus 

 Virginica (fringe tree), in 10 to 20 drop doses, according to age and robustness 

 of the patient, will cure it 



Dr. Goss, of Marietta, Ga., prefers the tinct. made with 8 ozs. of the bark 

 of the root to alcohol, 1 pt. In answer to some inquirers through the Brief, he 

 refers to the fringe tree in the following manner: 



" The doctor again asks me about the chionanthus Virginica — fringe tree. 

 I have stated in geveral journals, and in my "Materia Medica," and also in my 

 " New Medicine," emphatically, that I had never failed to cure simple jaundice 

 with the tinct. of the root (bark of the root is what is used) of the chionanthus, 

 when it was made from the freshly dug root. Several others ask me whether 

 it acts on the liver, or not? I never claimed it as an active stimulant to the 

 biliary secretions in health. It cures jaundice in some specific way, but how, I 

 do not know." 



The doctor uses the tincture, made as above, in doses of 3^ to 1 tea-spoon- 

 ful, 3 or 4 times a day. He first cured himself with it, while a student in the 

 University of Georgia. ''The faculty," he says, "having failed to cure me, or 

 to ameliorate my symptoms in the slightest degree. In this state of utter 



