5601. Pulmonary Balsam

5601. Pulmonary Balsam. Horehound plant, comfrey root, blood root, elecampane root, wild cherry bark, spikenard root, penny-royal plant, of each 4 ounces. Pour 3 quarts boiling water upon them; infuse for 3 hours; then heat the water again, and pour it upon the plants to infuse 5 or 6 hours. Sweeten with sugar candy. It is very serviceable in diseases of the lungs, chronic coughs; it removes constriction of the chest by promoting expectoration. Take half a small tea-cupful 3 or 4 times a day, or oftener if necessary.

5602. Blood-Boot Syrup

5602. Blood-Boot Syrup. Bruised blood-root, 21/2 ounces; lobelia, 1/4 ounce; white sugar, 11/2 ounces; water, 11/2 pints; gently simmer half an hour, till it thickens; when cool, add a tea-spoonful of paregoric elixir. Take a table-spoonful occasionally; for a child, a tea-spoonful or less. This syrup is very valuable in chest complaints, bronchial affections, coughs, and difficult breathing.

5603. Cough Syrup

5603.    Cough Syrup. Tincture of lobelia, 1 ounce; Iceland moss, 2 ounces; white poppy capsules, bruised, 2 ounces; pearl barley, 2 table-spoonfuls; water, 2 quarts; molasses, 2 ounces. Boil down to 3 pints, and strain. Dissolve in it from 4 to 8 ounces of sugar candy. It effectually allays a tickling cough. A table-spoonful when the cough is troublesome. It does not constipate, like laudanum and paregoric.

5604. Cough Remedy

5604.    Cough Remedy. Take lobelia herb, horehound, boneset, of each 1 ounce; comfrey root, spikenard, St. Johns' wort, poppy capsules, of each 1/2 ounce. Infuse in 3 pints boiling water for 3 hours. Strain and add 1/4 pound loaf sugar boiled to a syrup. Add a wine-glassful of best rum. A table-spoonful is a dose. This is a valuable receipt for cough, hoarseness, etc..

5605. To Cure a Cold with a Cough

5605.    To Cure a Cold with a Cough. Make a decoction of the leaves of the pine tree, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Drink it freely, warm, before going to bed, and cold, through the day. It is a certain cure in a short time.

5606. Inhalation of Cubebs and Carbolic Acid

5606.    Inhalation of Cubebs and Carbolic Acid. Mix together 1/2 fluid ounce tincture of cubebs and 20 drops liquid carbolic acid. Add the mixture to 1/2 pint hot water in an inhaler, and use every 3 or 4 hours, taking full respirations. A very efficient remedy in dry cough.

5607. Cough Mixture

5607.    Cough Mixture. Take muriate of morphia, 1/2 grain; glycerine, 2 fluid ounces. Mix. Dose, a tea-spoonful when the cough is troublesome.

5608. Treatment for Ulcerated Sore Throat

5608.    Treatment for Ulcerated Sore Throat. Chlorate of potassa, in cases of putrid ulcerated sore throat, has been used with the most decisive success. Its internal application more effectually allays thirst and abates fever than any other medicine; and, when applied as a gargle to inflamed or ulcerated sore throats, it has been found to disperse the inflammation and cleanse the ulcers more effectually than the infusion of rose-leaves with sulphuric acid, the gargle generally resorted to in those cases. The chlorate of potassa may be given in the dose of from 20 to 30 grains in a half glass of water, 3 or 4 times a day. For the purpose of gargling the throat, 4 drachms of the chlorate may be added to 1/2 pint of water. (See No. 5637 (Remedy for Diphtheria).)