This is a very common remedy and a good one; a remedy that the medical world would be at a loss without. I have failed to find, in all my experience and travels, a doctor that does not speak highly of this remedy.

It is something that can be obtained from almost every druggist in the land. It appears like sliced onions as you buy it from the drug store. It is better for you to buy it in this form, called the syrup of squill, and inquire of the druggist how it should be taken, from the fact that all preparations are not of the same strength.

Mode of acetic preparation. -- Take a sufficient quantity of the dried squill to fill a pint bottle half full, then add vinegar till the bottle is full. Shake well every day, and at the end of fourteen days it is ready for use. Then make a very thick syrup out of good loaf or granulated sugar, and to one part of squill add three parts of syrup. Shake well, each time before you use it. The dose for a grown person is a teaspoonful every two or three hours, in a case of bad colds. When nausea is experienced, or a desire to vomit, lessen the dose. For a child, ten or fifteen drops of the syrup every two or three hours. For croup in children, squill is the secret of all remedies that have proved themselves good. I will now give you a formula for a croup preparation that is used by almost every docor in our land that leans toward the vegetable theory of medicine.

Vinegar tincture of Squill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . two ounces.

Vinegar tincture of Lobelia . . . . . . . . . . . . . two ounces

Camphorated tincture of Opii . . . . . . . . . . . one drachm.

Dose, in a case of croup, one-half teaspoonful every ten minutes till the patient vomits. If vomiting should not occur after the third or fourth dose, give a little common baking soda mixed with water. The patient should be kept warm, and the proprietary medicine I call King of Pain should be freely applied to the throat.