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Evacuate the water by means of No. 11.
If accompanied or produced by a fulness of the vessels of the head, leeches to the temples, blisters, and No. 1 and No. 7. If from debility or confirmed epilepsy, the mixure No. 22. Avoid drinking and excitement.
The owder No. 34 internallv, sponging the ace with the lotion No. 35. Avoid excesses in diet.
Aperients, if the patient be strong, No 1, followed by No. 7; then tonics No. 31. No. 31 from the commencement in weak sub jects.
1228. Faintness - Effusion of cold water on the face, stimulants to th nostrils, pure air, and the recumbent position, afterwards avoidance of the exciting cause. Avoid excitement.
No heating or stimulating liquors must be given. Rub the parts affected with ice, cold or snow water, and lay the patient on a cold bed.
The aperients No. 1, followed by No. 28, bathing the parts with gin and water; for drink, weak tea or coffee. Warmth by flannels. Avoid wines, spirits, and animal food.
No. 5, followed by No. 7; the free use of magnesia as an aperient. The pill No. 26. Avoid fermented drinks, hard water.
Hooping cough may be complicated with congestion, or inflammation of the lungs, or convulsions, and then becomes a serious disease. If uncomplicated, No. 58.
The fit may be prevented by the administration of thirty drops of laudanum, and as many of aether. When it has taken place open the windows, loosen the tight parts of the dress, sprinkle cold water on the face, etc. A glass of wine or cold water when the patient can swallow. Avoid excitement and tight lacing.
The pills, No 2, with the mixture No. 22, at the same time abstinence from veal, pork, mackerel, salmon, pastry and beer; for drink, homoeopathic cocoa, a glass of cold spring water the first thing every morning. Avoid excesses.
No. 4, as an aperient and diaphoretic. No. 17, to allay fever and cough. No. 31, as a tonic, when weakness only remains. Avoid cold and damp, use clothing suited to the change of temperature.
Take No. 16 during the intermission of the paroxysm of the fever; keeping bowels free with a wine-glass of No. 7. Avoid bad air, stagnant pools, etc.
The ointment of No. 32, or lotion No. 33.
The pills No. 1, afterwards the mixture No. 7, drinking freely of dandelion tea.
One pill No. 23, repeated if necessary; afterwards the mixture No. 25. Avoid unripe fruits, acid drinks, ginger beer; wrap flannel around the abdomen.
A well ventilated room, aperients No. 4, with No. 17, to allay the cough and fever.
 
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