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In the treatment of chronic, or mild, or subacute pneu- 
monia, “which may be a continuation of that which was at 
first inflammatory and dangerous, sometimes requires nothing 
more in the way of medicine than to lubricate the respiratory 
passages, which are often left in an irritable state.” In such 
cases, he says ei take — 
“ Powdered Pleurisy Root, 
„ Elecampane, 
„ Blood Root, 
„ Caraways, 
„ Ginger, 
„ Salt, 
„ Elm, of each, 2 ounces ; 
Linseed Meal, 1 pound. 
Mix. Divide the mass into sixteen powders, and give one in the food night 
and morning.” 
“ A cough occasioned by derangements of the digestive 
organs, or from worms, &c., may be always relieved by the 
following : 
“Powdered Worm Seed, 
Whole Mustard Seed, 
Castile Soap Shavings, 
Powdered Golden Seed, 
„ Poplar Bark, 
„ Sulphur, 
„ Salt, 
„ Charcoal. 
Mix ; and divide the mass into eight parts, and give one every night in 
the food.” 
66 The constitutional remedies ” for nasal gleet, according 
to our author, consist of— 
“ Grains of Paradise, 
Powdered Marsh Mallows, 
„ Sulphur, 
„ Charcoal, 
White Mustard Seed. 
Dose, one ounce daily.” 
The above may be accepted as a pretty fair illustration of 
the medical treatment to be resorted to. We need hardly 
