5658. Blackberry Cordial

5658.    Blackberry Cordial. To 1 quart blackberry juice, add 1 pound white sugar, 1 table-spoonful each cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Boil all together 15 minutes, add a wine-glass of whiskey, brandy, or rum. Bottle while hot, cork tight and seal. This is almost a specific in diarrhea. Dose is 1 wine-glassful for an adult, half that quantity for a child; will often cure diarrhea. It can be taken 3 or 4 times a day if the case is severe.

5659. Remedy for Summer Complaint

5659. Remedy for Summer Complaint. A tea made of the seeds of the sunflower, roasted like coffee berries, is an admirable remedy for all species of summer complaint. 1/2 pint of the seed is sufficient. It shnould be remembered, however, that serious results often follow the too sudden stoppage of diarrhea by astringents, and with this, as all remedies of a similar nature, caution should be used.

5660. Remedy for Bilious Diarrhea

5660.    Remedy for Bilious Diarrhea. Infuse 1/2 ounce Angostura bark for 2 hours in 1 pint boiling water, and strain; is a remedy for bilious diarrhea, especially in southern latitudes.

5661. Treatment of Diarrhea in Infants

5661.    Treatment of Diarrhea in Infants. Dr. Smith recommends the following prescriptions, if the bowels are rather loose, with dark, slimy, offensive stools. Tincture of opium, 8 minims; castor oil, 1 drachm; syrup of ginger and mucilage of acacia, each 1 ounce. A tea-spoonful 3 times daily. In the screaming fits, accompanied by constipation, this combination of castor-oil with laudanum is very valuable. {Med. News.)

5662. Treatment of Cholera

5662.     Treatment of Cholera. The following excellent directions are given for the treatment of cholera by Dr. Pratt: For the stage of diarrhea. This may come on insidiously, painless, and hence not alarming, but should be met promptly. The remedy is the cholera mixture, so called, consisting of equal parts of laudanum, tincture of rhubarb, and spirits of camphor. Begin with 30 drops, taken clear and unmixed, with a little sugar placed in the mouth afterward. Repeat the dose after every evacuation, increasing it if the case becomes urgent to 60 drops (a teaspoonful), or 90 drops if necessary. If the diarrhea is not controlled by this means, an injection of from 30 to 90 drops laudanum, in a table-spoonful of starch, will prove a valuable help. This may be often repeated. If the diarrhea ceases, do not entirely intermit the medicine, but give in gradually diminished doses, every 1 or 2 hours, for a period of 12 or even 24 hours.

5663. Treatment for the Vomiting Stage

5663.     Treatment for the Vomiting Stage. Dr. Pratt's remedy is laudanum, tincture of capsicum, tincture of ginger, and tincture of cardamom seeds, equal parts; to be given from 40 to 60 drops undiluted, and followed by sugar, after every fit of vomiting; taking care to give it as soon as the fit ceases, when it will be more likely to be retained. An excellent assistant to this is a large mustard poultice applied to the abdomen.