398 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
ward off or lessen the severity of an attack. A piece of wood, 
in the form of a gag, should be carried or at hand. When it 
does happen, open waistcoat and neck surroundings, put the 
wood in the mouth to prevent the tongue from being chewed; 
then as gently as possible give in sips the antispasmodic 
tincture, half a teaspoonful in half a cup of water, sweetened, 
When recovered, a regular medicine should be taken. Make 
a decoction of— 
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Simmer in three pints of water ten minutes ; strain, and add 
one ounce of antispasmodic tincture. Take a wineglassful three 
or four times a day. Rub the spine from the neck down with 
the stramonium ointment; keep the bowels free with the 
compound rhubarb pills. If the patient is of a robust. 
constitution, a course of medicine once a week would be 
advisable, (if caused by painful menstruation or suppression.) 
(See index.) There are other remedies which have been found 
good. The simplest of all is fine salt, a teaspoonful in water 
twice a day; extract stramonium, two to three grains, in 
pill form night and morning. Dr. Chase gives oxide of zinc 
in powder, commencing at half a grain up to three grains 
three times a day with the stramonium ointment to the spine. 
There is another—the velerinate of zinc, same doses, and the 
bromide of ammonia, in a half to drachm doses, three or four 
tumesaday. This is combined withthe potass salts. Caution.— 
People subject to fits should not follow dan gerous occupations, 
ds serious consequences may happen. Avoid fat meats, 
excesses of all kinds, live on plain food, never load the 
stomach, but rise from the table with the appetite unappeased. 
PALSY (PaRAtysis), 
Is a loss of Power, partial or complete, in a part or parts of 
the body; it very often affects Only one side. This is due to 
