Catarrh Recipe (Inhalation)

12 grains carbolic acid, 1 ounce of chloroform, 12 grains iodine crystals. Mix in a bottle and inhale three times a day.

Catarrh Snuff

Equal parts of pulverized sugar and finely ground borax. Use frequently - very helpful, especially so in a bad cold.

Croup

Turpentine is a sovereign remedy for] croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest, and, in very severe cases, 3 or 4 drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly. Every family should have a bottle on hand.

A warm bath will frequently relieve the worst paroxysm; or bathing the feet in hot water and rubbing with heated flannels. Small doses of hive syrup may be used as an emetio.

Diphtheria

This formidable disease is comparatively manageable, if one fact is kept in view. The white secretion in the throat is poisonous to the blood, if swallowed. A sore throat, with patches of white on the tonsils just back of the root of the tongue indicates its approach. Fill a tumbler half full of salt, fill up with water, stir until the solution is strong as possible. Tie a soft sponge or rag securely on a notched stick, for a swab, and saturate it with the brine, and pass it well back in the throat behind the white patches, and wipe them off clean, bringing out of the mouth. Rinse the swab each time before putting back in the mouth, and, to keep the brine clean, pour some to use in a separate dish. Repeat this as often as the mucus forms. If there is more than one patient have a separate swab for each one. It will be well also to fill a hose half full of salt, wet it with cold water and apply to the throat so that the salt will extend from ear to ear. Lemon juice is a very good gargle.

Diphtheria Wash

Golden seal, pulverized, 1 drachm.

Borax, pulverized, 1 drachm.

Black pepper, pulverized, 1 drachm.

Alum, pulverized, 1 drachm.

Nitrate of potash, pulverized, 1 drachm.

Salt, pulverized, 2 drachms. Put all in a common teacup and pour half full of boiling water. Stir and fill us with good vinegar. Fit for use when it settles.

Make a swab according to first directions and use in the same manner. Let the patient swallow a little each time. Swab thoroughly every half hour, if the patient is bad, if not every hour. When better, every two hours, then every four hours, then two or three times a day until well, which will be from two to seven days. This will never fail if taken before the diphtheria membrane extends into the air tubes. At the same time rub the following liniment on the throat outside, every three or four hours, keeping a flannel cloth outside:

1 ounce spirits of turpentine. 1/2 ounce of aqua ammonia.

1 ounce of sweet or linseed oil.

Mix; shake before using. Give small doses of castor oil. If a common sore throat should be mistaken for diphtheria, no matter, it will cure it almost invariably. This is a well known physiciar's prescription. Teach a child to gargle the throat when well and it will be a great assistance in illness.'

Second

Take a shovelful of hot coals and sprinkle over them 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls of flower of sulphur, and put the shovel under the bed. Remove as soon as the patient begins to cough. Try this two or three nights and it will be found that the fumes of the sulphur will destroy the fungus called diphtheria.