STANDARD RECEIPTS. 455 



WORM REMEDIES. 



Symptoms. The symptoms denoting worms are quite common to 

 the various species. The surest is to find them in the passages of the 

 bowels. The other symptoms are: starting during sleep; grinding of 

 the teeth; itching of the nose; and indigestion with a variable appetite. 



Stomach "Worms. To expel these from 3^oung children use the 

 following faithfully and success will follow: 



2 ounces Flaid Extract Pink-root, 

 16 grains Santonine. 



Mix and give a child two years old one tea-spoonful night and morn- 

 ing, until it physics. 



Pin Worm Remedy. The thread or seat worm may be washed 

 away by an injection of quassia which has been soaked for twenty-four 

 hours in water enough to cover. This should be followed by doses of 

 the stomach worm remedy. It is well to take a tonic after the expulsion 

 of worms. 



COUGH REMEDIES. 



Cough Mixture. A large number of cough remedies contain some 

 form of opium, as laudanum or paregoric, which while having the de- 

 sired effect upon a cough has a tendency to constipate the bowels, 

 which has to be overcome by a cathartic. The following is a val- 

 uable remedy which does not constipate. 



4 ounces Iceland Moss, 4 table-spoonfula Pearl Barley, 



2 ounces Tincture of Lobelia, 4 ounces Poppy Capsules, 



1 pint Molasses, 4 quarts Water, 



I pound Sugar Candy. 



Mix all together excepting the candy, and boil down to three quarts, 



then dissolve in it the candy. Dose, one table-spoonful when the cough 

 is troublesome. 



Cough Mixture No. a. This is a valuable remedy for coughs and 

 hoarseness. 



2 ounces Horehound, 1 ounce Comfrey Root. 

 2 ounces Boneset, 1 ounce Spikenard, 



2 ounces Lobelia Herb, 1 ounce St. John's Wort, 



1 ounce Poppy Capsules, J pound Loaf Sugar, 



4 quarts Water. 



Mix all together excepting the sugar and let stand in warm place for 



