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Treatment. If the bowels are costive a tablespoonful of castor 

 oil should be given, followed up by nauseating expectorants and 

 diuretics (tartar emetic, two grains, nitrate of potass, one drachm, 

 and sugar, one drachm, mix thoroughly, divide into twelve pow- 

 ders and shake one on the tongue thrice daily). If the cough is 

 very troublesome a grain of powdered digitalis may be added 

 to each dose, or after the nasal discharge has been freely estab- 

 lished one-half grain of opium among the tartar emetic. The 

 opiates are of great value in controlling the paroxysms of cough- 

 ing and the propagation of the disease to the smallest ramifica- 

 tions of the air passages, but as they check secretion they must 

 be used with caution until a free discharge has been established. 

 Dover's powder may be given early. In the early stages bro- 

 mides, hyoscyamus or digitalis may be preferred. Muriate or 

 carbonate of ammonia, syrup of Tolu, senega, or gnaiac may follow. 

 The following may be used as expectorants : Tincture of anise, 

 twenty drops, aqua ammonia, twenty drops, alcohol, one oz., 

 water, one oz. : Dose one teaspoonful several times a day. Or, 

 chloride of morphine, two cgrms., apomorphine, three cgrms., 

 muriatic acid, three drops, distilled water, 150 grms., (Rossbach). 

 Dose, a teaspoonful in soup thrice a day. Fortuna advises — eu- 

 calyptol, twenty grms., olive oil sterilized by heat, 80 grms. 

 Dose, one cubic centimeter, subcutem once or twice a day. 



In case of high fever acetanilid, }( grm., may be given several 

 times at intervals of six hours. 



Inhalations of water vapor with phenic acid, ol terebinth, etc., 

 the maintenance of an equable temperature, and the moist chest 

 jacket, followed by mustard poultices to the throat and chest are 

 not to be neglected. The diet should be simple, oatmeal or Indian 

 corn pudding with milk, soups and the like may be allowed, but 

 as a rule, butcher meat is to be withheld. If the patient has 

 previously fed entirely on the latter it should now be given in 

 very limited amount only, and qualified by an admixture of fari- 

 naceous diet. 



In some cases the prostration becomes so great that the patient 

 must be supported by tonics and stimulants (a teaspoonful each 

 of sweet spirits of nitre and tincture of gentian, or a teaspoonful 

 of port wine repeated twice daily). 



In case of persistent discharge, iron, liquor arsenicalis, the 

 same strength as Fowler's solution, or cod-liver oil may be used. 



