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give a teaspoonful every hour or two. It is pleasant, and if 

 the child should also have worms, which often happens, they 

 are pretty apt to be disposed of, as they have no love for the 

 wild-cherry flavor. 



Honey and Tab Cough Candy. — Put a double handful 

 of green horehound into two quarts of water, boil down to 

 one quart ; strain, and add to this tea two cupfuls of extracted 

 honey and a tablespoonful each of lard and tar. Boil down 

 to a candy, but not enough to make it brittle. Begin to eat 

 this, increase from a piece the size of a pea to as much as can 

 be relished. It is an excellent cough candy, and always 

 gives relief in a short time. 



Honey and Tar Cough Cube. — Put one tablespoonful 

 liquid tar into a shallow tin dish, and place it in boiUng water 

 until the tar is hot. To this add a pint of extracted honey, 

 and stir well for half an hour, adding to it a level teaspoonful 

 pulverized borax. Keep well corked in a bottle. Dose, one 

 teaspoonful every one, two, or three hours, according to 

 severity of cough. 



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