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ammonia mixture (Pr. 99) ; two table-spoonfuls are to be taken every four hours 

 during effervescence. The addition of five drops of antimony wine to each 

 dose is advantageous. The chest and back should be painted with iodine liniment, 

 which is not to be rubbed on, but applied with a small brush. If you know that 

 only one lung is affected, the application should be confined to that side. If it is 

 only the apex or upper part of the lung that is damaged, the paint should be put on 

 above and below the collar-bone, and over the shoulder-blade only. It must be 

 remembered that the iodine liniment is a strong preparation, and that if you put 

 ifc on too thickly it will bring all the skin off. It ought to cause a fair amount of 

 pain and smarting, or it will do no good. For children and young people, the weaker 

 tincture of iodine may be used, but it is not so valuable a remedy. As soon as one 

 coat of iodine clears off and it will disappear in a few days put on another. The 

 effervescing ammonia mixture will have to be taken for a week or ten clays, and then 

 the temperature will probably be lower. You must then take cod-liver oil. The 

 dose to begin with is a tea-spoonful three times a day. It may be given alone or in 

 milk, or weak brandy-and-water, or orange wine, or coffee, or anything you like best. 

 The great thing is to float it on the top of the liquid, so that it does not touch the 

 sides of the glass, and then you can toss it off without tasting it. Many people can 

 take it on the gentian and soda mixture (Pr. 14), when they cannot take it in any 

 other way. It does not matter much how you take it, but take it you must/ It 

 should always be given soon after meals, and never before, or it will spoil the 

 appetite. In addition to the cod-liver oil, a table-spoonful of the following mixture 

 should be taken twice a day : 



Take of Hypophosphite of lime, thirty-two grains. 

 Syrup, one ounce. 

 Water, seven ounces. 

 Make a mixture. Dose, a table-spoonful twice a day. 



This should be taken quite by itself, and not at the same time as the cod-liver oil. 

 If the cough is troublesome, and especially if it is a short, dry, and hacking cough, 

 take a tea-spoonful of the morphia linctus (Pr. 56) occasionally. Other remedies for 

 cough will be found under that heading (see COUGH) ; but we think you will have no 

 reason to be dissatisfied with the one we have recommended. If there is much 

 night-sweating take one or two of the oxide of zinc pills (Pr. 66) at bed-time. 

 Should they fail to afford relief, you may after three or four nights substitute ten 

 grains of compound ipecacuanha powder, which will probably prove successful. 

 There are many other remedies for the night-sweating of phthisis, and they will be 

 found enumerated in their proper place. (See NIGHT-SWEATIXG.) Should there be 

 any bleeding, turn to the article on blood-spitting (p. 141), and you will see what 

 to do. For diarrhoea, a mixture of equal parts of decoction of logwood and chalk 

 mixture usually proves successful. The dose is two or three table-spoonfuls every 

 four hours. In obstinate cases, large doses of carbonate of bismuth often succeed 

 admirably. From thirty to sixty grains may be given at a single dose, suspended in 

 milk. Sometimes a number of remedies will have to be employed before the 

 diarrhoea can be stopped. The article on that subject should be consulted. (See 

 DIARRHCEA.) Should there be any pain under the collar-bones, or a stitch in the 



