5634. Atlee's Cure for Whooping-Cough

5634.    Atlee's Cure for Whooping-Cough. Take 1 drachm each powdered cochineal and strong aqua-ammonia; 1 ounce rectified spirits of wine. Mix. Dose for a child one year old, 10 drops in sweetened water 3 times a day.

5635. Cure for Whooping Cough

5635.    Cure for Whooping Cough. Pure carbonate of potassa, 1 scruple; cochineal, 1 grain; dissolve in C ounces of water sweetened with sugar. Dose for a child four years old, 1 tea-spoonful 3 times a day, to be taken before meals. This is an excellent remedy.

5636. Treatment of Diphtheria

5636. Treatment of Diphtheria. Make two small bags to reach from ear to ear, and fill them with wood-ashes and salt; dip them in hot water, and wring them out so that they will not drip, and apply them to the throat; cover up the whole with a flannel cloth, and change them as often as they become cool, until the throat becomes irritated, near blistering. For children it is necessary to put flannel cloths between tho ashes and the throat, to prevent blistering. "When the ashes have been on a sufficient time, take a wet flannel cloth and rub it With castile soap until it is covered with a thick lather; dip it in hot water, and apply it to the throat, and change as they cool; at tho same time use a gargle made of 1 tea-spoonful each of cayenne pepper, salt, and molasses, in a tea-cupful of not water, and when cool, add 1/4 as much cider vinegar, and gargle every 15 minutes, until the patient requires sleep. A gargle made of castile soap is good to be used part of the time.

5637. Remedy for Diphtheria

5637.    Remedy for Diphtheria. Permanganate of potassa has been administered with great success in cases of diphtheria. The proportions used for external use are 1 drachm of tho permanganate to a pint of water ; the dose for internal use, 1 tea-spoonful of a solution of 1 drachm in 11/2 pints water. (U. S.Dis.)

5638. Remedy for Diphtheria

5638.    Remedy for Diphtheria. A gentleman who has administered the following remedy for diphtheria, says that it has always proved effectual: Take a tobacco pipe, place a live coal in the bowl, drop a little tar upon tho coal, and let the patient draw smoke into the mouth, and discharge it through the nostrils. Tho remedy is safe and simple.

5639. Roche's Remedy for Diphtheria

5639.    Roche's Remedy for Diphtheria. M. Roche recommends the following mode of treatment. The false membranes are first freely cauterized with lunar caustic, and injections then made every hour against the fauces with a solution of common salt, the strength of the solution being such as not to create nausea. Chlorate of potassa may be also given internally; and tincture of iodine as a local application; but M. Roche considers that the irrigations with the solution of common salt are the chief agents in the case.