Diaphoretics. Medicines that increase the perspiration. Those that produce this effect in a powerful degree are generally called sudorifies. The principal diaphoretics are warm diluents, as gruel, tea, barley-water, etc..; salts of the alkalies, as the citrates of potassa and soda, acetate and carbonate of ammonia, sal-ammoniac, nitre, etc..; preparations of antimony, as tartar emetic, antimonial powder, etc..; also Dover's powder, opium, camphor, ipecacuanha, alcohol, wine, etc.. The use of diaphoretics is indicated in most diseases accompanied by fever and a dry skin.

5135. Balm Tea

5135.    Balm Tea. Balm leaves, 1 ounce; fine sugar, 1 spoonful; lemon juice, 1 ounce; infused in a pint of boiling water for 20 minutes. This forms a useful drink in colds or fevers. Or it may bo made just like common tea, without the lemon. Let the patient drink it frequently, especially the last thing at night, and keep himself warm during the perspiration.

5136. Herb Drink for Fevers

5136.   Herb Drink for Fevers. Infuse

1  ounce each of balm, elder-flowers, marsh-mallow, spearmint, and arnica-flowers, with 1/2 ounce anise-seed, in boiling water.

5137. Fever Mixture

5137.    Fever Mixture. Mix 2 scruples nitrate of potash with 3 drachms sweet spirits of nitre, 3 ounces solution of acetate of ammonia, 41/2 ounces camphor water, and 2 drachms lemon syrup. Dose for an adult,

2 table-spoonfuls every 4 hours. Children in proportion. This mixture is excellent where the fever affects the head.

5138. Infusion to Produce Sweating

5138.    Infusion to Produce Sweating. Infuse 1 ounce pleurisy root for 30 minutes in 11/2 pints water. A tea-spoonful taken warm as often as the stomach will bear it.

5139. Boneset Tea

5139.     Boneset Tea. Infuse 1 ounce boneset in 1 pint boiling water for 30 minutes.

A wine-glassful as hot as possible every half hour will produce a profuse perspiration.

5140. Blessed Thistle Tea

5140.      Blessed Thistle Tea. The leaves of the blessed thistle prepared and administered in the same way as boneset {see last receipt), but not sufficient to produce nausea, will have a similar effect.

5141. Febrifuge "Wine

5141.     Febrifuge "Wine. The following mixture is highly recommended for fever and ague: quinine, 25 grains; water, 1 pint; Epsom salts, 2 ounces; brandy, 1 gill; sulphuric acid, 12 drops; loaf sugar, 2 ounces. Color with tincture of red saunders. Take a wine-glassful three times a day.

5142. Sweating Drops

5142.    Sweating Drops. Take of camphor, saffron, ipecacuanha, opium, and Virginia snake-root, 1/2 ounce each; Holland gin, 11/2 pints; infuse 2 or 3 days. A wonderfully efficacious cure for fever and ague, after suitable evacuants. Dr. Beach says he finds this the best medicine for fever and ague of any with which he is acquainted. In two cases this tincture removed the paroxysms where other remedies failed.

5143. Spirit of Mindererus, or Solution of Acetate of Ammonia

5143.    Spirit of Mindererus, or Solution of Acetate of Ammonia. Take of diluted acetic acid, 2 pints; carbonate of ammonia, in powder, a sufficient quantity. Add the carbonate of ammonia gradually to the acid, until it is saturated. This is a valuable diaphoretic, and is much employed in fevers and inflammatory diseases.

5144. Houseleek for Fevers

5144.    Houseleek for Fevers. It is used as a cooling application to sores, ulcers, etc.. The juice mixed with cream is good for inflammation of the eyes, and erysipelas. Taken inwardly it is good for fevers, cooling them down wonderfully. First give a purgative to cleanse the stomach and bowels; then bruise the houseleek; adding to the juice its weight in fine sugar to form a syrup. A table-spoonful every 2 hours. Drink balm or catnip tea. This receipt is worth gold.

5145. Sudorific, or Fever Powder

5145.     Sudorific, or Fever Powder. Crawley root, 1 ounce ; lobelia herb, 1/2 ounce ; pleurisy root, 1 ounce; skunk cabbage, 1/2 ounce. Powder, and mix them together. Dose, from 1/4 to 1/2 tea-spoonful every one hour and a half till perspiration is produced. It may be given in balm or common tea. In fevers, inflammations, influenza, and colds, this powder is invaluable. It subdues irritation, corrects the pulse, improves respiration, and promotes sound natural sleep. It is sure, if properly administered, to arrest a fever. Keep it in a bottle, well corked.