Or, Confection of catechu, 2 drachms,
cinnamon water, 4 ozs. ; syrup of white
poppies, 1 oz. ; mix together. 1 or 2
table-spoonfuls to be taken 2 or 3 times
a day as required ; for children under 10
years of age, a dessert spoonful to be
used ; under 2 years, a teaspoonful, also
2 or 3 times a-day, as above stated.
Draught for Diarrhoea. Take
tincture of opium, 30 drops ; prepared
chalk, 2 drs. ; powdered gum, 4 drs. ;
tincture of catechu, 2 drs. ; rose-water,
2 ozs. Mix, and take a table-spoonful
3 or 4 times a-day.
Or fill a small basin with dry flour,
tightly cover it with a greased cloth ;
boil it 3 hours. Then let it cool. For
use, grate a dessert spoonful of it into
peppermint water ; more for an adult.
— Or make a strong tea of blackberry
leaves, or raspberry leaves. I have
known the latter superior to all physi-
cians. Follow it with a little port wine,
grated nutmeg and ginger.
Or, take of poplar bark, lA oz. ;
prickly ash berries, % oz. ; fleabane, %
oz. ; slippery elm, 1 drachm ; pour on
them a pint of boiling water ; infuse two
or three hours. — Tonics must be given
after the cessation of the relax.
DINING TABLES, to Polish.
— Put a little cold-drawn linseed oil In
DIN
IOI
DIS
the middle of a table, and then with a
piece of linen rub it well over the table ;
repeatedly change the linen till the
table is dry. The table, by repeating
this process, will assume a beautiful
polish.
DINNER PILLS.— Aloes and
jalap, of each a ozs. ; rhubarbj % oz.
Make into three grain pills with syrups
of wormwood. Take from one to four
during the day.
DIPHTHERIA.— “I have had
the treatment of several cases, and have
uniformly been successful ; the remedy
is very simple. It is the external appli-
cation of water to the throat, at degrees
of temperature alternating from the
highest that the human skin will bear,
down to almost zero. I am prepared to
verify that by proof. A HENDER-
SON, M.R.C.S., Eng. 13, Upper Sey-
mour St., Portman Square, London,
1858.
M. Roche mentions in L' Union Medi -
cult that he had saved six patients in
six cases of diphtheria by the following
mode of treatment. The false mem-
branes were first freely cauterized with
lunar caustic, and injections then made
every hour against the fauces with a
solution of common salt, the strength of
the solution being such as not to create
nausea. Cholorate of potash was also
given internally ; and tincture of iodine
as a topical application, was used in
half the cases ; but M. Roche considers
that the irrigations with the solution of
common salt were the chief agents in
the case.
DIPHTHERIA, American
Remedy for. — Make two small bags
to reach from ear to ear, and fill them
with wood ashes and salt ; dip them in
hot water, and wring them out so that
they will not drip, and apply them to the
throat ; cover up the whole with a flan-
nel cloth, and change them as often as
they become cool, until the throat be-
comes irritated, near blistering. For
children it is necessary to put flannel
cloths between the ashes and the throat
to prevent blistering, When the ashes
have been on a sufficient time take a wet
flannel cloth and rub it with castile soap
until it is covered with a thick lather ;
dip it in hot water, and apply it to the
throat, and change as they cool ; at the
Consult me
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Or, Confection of catechu, 2 drachms, cinnamon water, 4 ozs. ; syrup of white poppies, 1 oz. ; mix together. 1 or 2 table-spoonfuls to be taken 2 or 3 times a day as required ; for children under 10 years of age, a dessert spoonful to be used ; under 2 years, a teaspoonful, also
2 or 3 times a day, as above stated.
Draught for Diarrhoea. Take
tincture of opium, 30 drops ; prepared chalk, 2 drs. ; powdered gum, 4 drs. ; tincture of catechu, 2 drs. ; rose-water,
2 ozs. Mix, and take a table-spoonful
3 or 4 times a day.
Or fill a small basin with dry flour, tightly cover it with a greased cloth ; boil it 3 hours. Then let it cool. For use, grate a dessert spoonful of it into peppermint water ; more for an adult. — Or make a strong tea of blackberry leaves, or raspberry leaves. I have known the latter superior to all physicians. Follow it with a little port wine, grated nutmeg and ginger.
Or, take of poplar bark, 1⁄2 oz. ; prickly ash berries, 1⁄2 oz. ; fleabane, 1⁄2 oz. ; slippery elm, 1 drachm ; pour on them a pint of boiling water ; infuse two or three hours. — Tonics must be given after the cessation of the relax.
DINING TABLES, to Polish. — Put a little cold-drawn linseed oil In
the middle of a table, and then with a piece of linen rub it well over the table ; repeatedly change the linen till the table is dry. The table, by repeating this process, will assume a beautiful polish.
DINNER PILLS.— Aloes and jalap, of each 2 ozs. ; rhubarb, 1⁄2 oz. Make into three grain pills with syrups of wormwood. Take from one to four during the day.
DIPHTHERIA.— “I have had the treatment of several cases, and have uniformly been successful ; the remedy is very simple. It is the external application of water to the throat, at degrees of temperature alternating from the highest that the human skin will bear, down to almost zero. I am prepared to verify that by proof. A HENDER- SON, M.R.C.S., Eng. 13, Upper Seymour St., Portman Square, London,
M. Roche mentions in L'Union Médical that he had saved six patients in six cases of diphtheria by the following mode of treatment. The false membranes were first freely cauterized with lunar caustic, and injections then made every hour against the fauces with a solution of common salt, the strength of the solution being such as not to create nausea. Cholorate of potash was also given internally ; and tincture of iodine as a topical application, was used in half the cases ; but M. Roche considers that the irrigations with the solution of common salt were the chief agents in the case.
DIPHTHERIA, American Remedy for. — Make two small bags to reach from ear to ear, and fill them with wood ashes and salt ; dip them in hot water, and wring them out so that they will not drip, and apply them to the throat ; cover up the whole with a flannel cloth, and change them as often as they become cool, until the throat becomes irritated, near blistering. For children it is necessary to put flannel cloths between the ashes and the throat to prevent blistering, When the ashes have been on a sufficient time take a wet flannel cloth and rub it with castile soap until it is covered with a thick lather ; dip it in hot water, and apply it to the throat, and change as they cool ; at the