GLASS II. 1. 3, 9. OF SENSATIO^. 20* 



for a child of about three years old was one-sixth part of a grain 

 of calomel, one-sixth part of a grain of opium, and two grains of 

 i-hubarb, to be taken twice a day. 



The opium promotes absorption from the mucous membrane, 

 and hence contributes to heal it. The mercury prevents ulcers 

 from being formed under the mucous membrane, or cures them, 

 as in the lues venerea; and the rhubarb is necessary to keep the 

 bowels open. 



M. M. Antimonial vomits frequently repeated. Mild cathar- 

 tics. Cool air. Tincture of cantharides, or repeated blisters; 

 afterwards opiates in small doses, and the bark. Warm bath 

 frequently used. The steam of warm water with a little vinegar 

 in it may be inhaled twice a day. Thirty drops of saturated tinc- 

 ture of digitalis purpurea, purple foxglove, were given twice a 

 day to a lady, seventy years of age, in this disease, with great 

 and almost immediate advantage. I have since given from five 

 to ten drops twice a day to two children, with also great appa- 

 rent advantage. See Art. IV. 2. 3. 7. Arsenic has lately been 

 recommended in the hooping cough. See Art. IV. 2. 6, 9. And 

 externally a solution of 20 grains of emetic tartar, antimonium 

 tartarisatum, in two ounces of water, to which is to be added one 

 ounce of tincture of cantharides, is recommended, by Dr. Struve 

 of America, to be rubbed very frequently on the region of the 

 stomach. Could the breathing of carbonic acid gas mixed with 

 atmospheric air be of service? Copious venesection, when a diffi- 

 culty of breathing continues between the fits of coughing; other- 

 \vise the cough and the expectoration cease, and the patient is 

 destroyed. Ulcers of the lungs sometimes supervene, and the 

 phthisis pulmonalis in a few weeks terminates in death. Where 

 the cough continues after some weeks without much of the hoop- 

 ing, and a sensitive fever daily supervenes, so as to resemble 

 hectic fever from ulcers of the lungs; change of air for a week 

 or fortnight acts as a charm, and restores the patient beyond tire 

 hopes of the physician. 



Young children should lie with their heads and shoulders rais- 

 ed; and should be constantly watched day and night; that when 

 the cough occurs, they may be held up easily, so as to stand upon 

 their feet bending a little forwards; or nicely supported in that pos- 

 ture which they seem to put themselves into. A bow of whalebone, 

 about the size of the bow of a key, is very useful to extract the 

 phlegm out of the mouths of infants at the time of their coughing; 

 as a handkerchief, if applied at the time of their quick inspirations 

 after long holding their breath is dangerous, and may suffocate 

 the patient in an instant, as I believe has sometimes happened. 



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