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Lyon's Kathairon. Alcohol, ninety- five per cent, twelve fluid ounces; oil ricinis, 

 four fluid ounces; tincture cantharis, one-half fluid ounce; acid, tannic, thirty grains; 

 oils, citronnella, bergamot, and cloves, one-half fluid drachm each; oils lavender, 

 flo., and rosemary, one fluid drachm. M. Sec. art. Filter. 



Diphtheria. For treatment of this terrible disease, the following recipes are 

 said to be excellent : 



No. i. Take of sulphuric acid, four drops; water, three-quarter tumblerful. 

 Mix, and stir well, and give at one dose to an adult; children in proportion to age. 

 Repeat as occasion requires. It is said to coagulate the diptheritic membrane, and 

 cause its ready removal by coughing; and is considered by some almost as a specific. 



No. 2. Take one teaspoonful of sulphur and two ounces of water, and stir with 

 the finger, instead of a spoon, until it is well mixed; then use it as a gargle; also 

 have the patient take a teaspoonful of the sulphur in two ounces of water, and repeat 

 the dose four or five times during the day, and repeat the gargle every hour until 

 improvement takes place. If the patient is so badly off that he cannot use the gargle, 

 put a teaspoonful of the sulphur on a live coal, and let the patient stand over it and 

 inhale the smoke made by its burning; or, in some bad cases, where the throat is 

 nearly closed, it might be well to blow a little of the sulphur through a quill into the 

 throat. It is said that Dr. Field of England has treated many cases in this way, and 

 all recovered. 



Earache. Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine. Mix, and from 

 a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear, and stop the ear tight with 

 cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If matter should form in the ear, make a suds 

 with Castile soap and warm water, about one hundred degrees F., or a little more than 

 milk warm, and have some person inject it into the ear, while you hold that side of 

 the head the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic acid and 

 water, in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint of warm water, each 

 time after using the suds. 



