COCHINEAL IN HOOPING COUGH. 
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ART. LXVII. — TREATMENT OF HOOPING COUGH BY 
COCHINEAL. 
Dr. Cajitan Wacht of Vienna, has treatednine children 
affected with hooping cough, by cochineal, which has been 
already used for that purpose by English physicians. The 
medicine has been administered in every stage of the dis- 
order, and its efficacy has been so very instantaneous, so 
constant, that notwithstanding, the small number of cases 
Mr. Wacht had, he believes himself authorised to announce 
cochineal a specific in hooping cough. The following is the 
mixture he used : 
Cochineal 10 decigrammes. 
Sugar 32 grammes. 
Warm Water 192 grammes. 
Dissolve. Dose, 3 teaspoonful during the 24 hours. 
It should not be used after it has been made 36 hours, de- 
composition having then commenced. 
Journ. de Med. 
Note by Translator. — The mixture commonly used in 
this country, is formed of Cochineal Salt of tartar 3ij., 
Water 4 oz. Dose a teaspoonful. From Mr. Wacht's state- 
ment above given, it would appear, that its agency in the 
cure of hooping cough, is due to the cochineal alone. 
A. D. 
