5609. Bell's Gargle for Syphilitic Sore Throat

5609.     Bell's Gargle for Syphilitic Sore Throat. Mix together 2 grains corrosive sublimate; 1 ounce rectified spirits of wine; 3 ounces tincture of Peruvian bark, and 1 ounce each honey of roses and tincture of myrrh.

5610. Atlee's Cough Mixture

5610.     Atlee's Cough Mixture. 2 grains acetate of morphia; 1 drachm each tincture of belladonna and tincture of nux-vomica; 3 drachms each antimonial wine and syrup of ipecacuanha root; 1 ounce fluid extract of wild cherry bark, and 2 ounces syrup of balsam of tolu. A tea-spoonful 4 times a day relieves chronic or hacking cough.

5611. Hope's Cough Mixture

5611.    Hope's Cough Mixture. 2 ounces ammonia mixture; 5 ounces camphor mixture; 1 drachm tincture of digitalis (foxglove); 1/2 ounce each sweet spirits of nitre and syrup of poppies; 2 drachms solution of sulphate of morphia. A table-spoonful of this mixture is to be taken 4 times a day.

5612. Treatment of Consumption

5612.     Treatment of Consumption. It seems at first sight as superfluous to state that in a disease of debility like consumption, patients should breathe pure air, as that they should have good nourishing food, but it is not so. Theoretically, the value of pure air is accepted; but practically it is universally neglected. Healthful respiration has yet to be applied not only to every-day life, but in the treatment of disease. In ill health, and particularly diseases of the respiratory organs, the dictates of science and common sense are grossly outraged. If those persons who have consumption, or who have an inclination to it, would spend an hour every day in breathing pure air to the fullest extent to which their lungs are capable of taking it in, they would do more to prevent and cure this disease than it is possible to do by medication.

5613. Inhalation of Tar for Consumption

5613.    Inhalation of Tar for Consumption. Mix together 16 ounces liquid tar and 1 fluid ounce liquor of potassa; boil them for a few minutes in the open air; then let it simmer gently in an iron vessel over a spirit or other lamp in the chamber of the patient.

This may, at first, excite a disposition to cough, but in a short time allays it; and removes any tendency to it.

5614. Syrup of Blood-root

5614.    Syrup of Blood-root. 1 ounce blood-root, I ounce aniseseed, and 1/2 ounce liquorice boiled in 2 pints water down to a pint, and then mixed with 4 ounces honey. This is highly recommended in consumptive cases attended with dyspeptic symptoms?

5615. Blood-root for Consumption

5615.      Blood-root for Consumption. 25 to 40 drops saturated tincture of blood-root, taken 2 or 3 times a day, afford great relief.

5616. Cigars for Pulmonary Consumption

5616.      Cigars for Pulmonary Consumption. Dissolve 1 part arseniate of soda in 30 parts water. Dip white unsized paper into the solution and form into small rolls, 3 or 4 inches long. In pulmonary consumption inhale 4 or 5 whiffs as many times a day.