Quinine Mixture. — Sulphate quinine, 5 grains; hydrobromic
acid, ^ drachm ; water, 1 oz✪ Red Mixture. One teaspoonful three times a day
in absence of fever for a child two to four years old.
Cough Mixture. — Bicarbonate potash, 1 scruple; syrup of
squills, 2 drachms ; ipecacuanha wine, 1 drachm ; sweet spirits of
nitre, \ drjichm ; compound tincture camphor, 1 drachm ; mixture
of acacia (liquid gum), 2 drachms ; anise water, 2 oz. Shake the
bottle. One teaspoonful every three hours, not after or before
food.
Dysentery Powders {ij fever he present). — Powdered ipeca-
cuanha, 3 grains ; carbonate of soda, 5 grains ; Dover’s Powder, 2
grains ; grey powder, 5 grains ; compound kino powder, 4 grains✪ Dysentery Powders.
Make six powders. One powder every two hours if necessary.
Child two to four years.
Bronchitis Liniment (;wmwj).— Compound camphor liniment,
24 oz. ; turpentine liniment, 24 oz. Shake the bottle well and keep
corked, and sprinkle on new flannel as required. Keep away from
fire or candle.
CHAPTER XV
SIMPLE HINTS ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH
AND SIMPLE REMEDIES
Much fuss is, as a rule, made about the unhealthiness of
India, but, as a matter of fact, if due attention is paid to the
novel conditions of life, and the same precautions which are,
as a matter of course, taken against the damps and chills of
England be taken against the sun of India, there is no reason
at all why the health should suffer.' It is not only heat which
the sun brings with it. That heat in its turn, combined with
the intermittent and copious rain, is favourable to the de-
velopment of malaria and countless bacilli of all sorts. Thus,
necessarily, the risks to be run from the malarial type of
disease is greater than in England. At the same time, the
better class of Europeans should have immunity from a
thousand dangers which have to be run at home from in-
fection, cold, bad ventilation, and unscientific drainage. For
it must be remembered that if the water-system drainage be
not perfect, it is simply a death-trap.
That India itself has little to do with the mortality
charged against it may be seen from the fact that while the
civilian European population has a death-rate of only 20
per mille (or the same as London), soldiers in barracks have
one of 69. That is the result of crowding, errors of diet, in-
temperance, exposure, immorality, and the imperfect ventila-
tion and sanitation inseparable from large numbers, joined to
a want, during the hot weathei’, of rational exertion, mental
and bodily. These various evils have therefore to be guarded
against in India even more strenuously than in England.
In regard to the sun, it must not be forgotten that it is a
1ncml as well as an enemy. Half the cases of neura-sthenia
and anamia among English ladies, and their general in-
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Quinine Mixture. — Sulphate quinine, 5 grains; hydrobromic acid, 1/2 drachm; water, 1 oz. One teaspoonful three times a day in absence of fever for a child two to four years old.
Cough Mixture. — Bicarbonate potash, 1 scruple; syrup of squills, 2 drachms; ipecacuanha wine, 1 drachm; sweet spirits of nitre, 1/2 drachm; compound tincture camphor, 1 drachm; mixture of acacia (liquid gum), 2 drachms; anise water, 2 oz. Shake the bottle. One teaspoonful every three hours, not after or before food.
Dysentery Powders (if fever be present). — Powdered ipecacuanha, 3 grains; carbonate of soda, 5 grains; Dover's Powder, 2 grains; grey powder, 5 grains; compound kino powder, 4 grains. Make six powders. One powder every two hours if necessary. Child two to four years.
Bronchitis Liniment (always).— Compound camphor liniment, 24 oz.; turpentine liniment, 24 oz. Shake the bottle well and keep corked, and sprinkle on new flannel as required. Keep away from fire or candle.
CHAPTER XV
SIMPLE HINTS ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AND SIMPLE REMEDIES
Much fuss is, as a rule, made about the unhealthiness of India, but, as a matter of fact, if due attention is paid to the novel conditions of life, and the same precautions which are, as a matter of course, taken against the damps and chills of England be taken against the sun of India, there is no reason at all why the health should suffer.' It is not only heat which the sun brings with it. That heat in its turn, combined with the intermittent and copious rain, is favourable to the development of malaria and countless bacilli of all sorts. Thus, necessarily, the risks to be run from the malarial type of disease is greater than in England. At the same time, the better class of Europeans should have immunity from a thousand dangers which have to be run at home from infection, cold, bad ventilation, and unscientific drainage. For it must be remembered that if the water-system drainage be not perfect, it is simply a death-trap.
That India itself has little to do with the mortality charged against it may be seen from the fact that while the civilian European population has a death-rate of only 20 per mille (or the same as London), soldiers in barracks have one of 69. That is the result of crowding, errors of diet, intemperance, exposure, immorality, and the imperfect ventilation and sanitation inseparable from large numbers, joined to a want, during the hot weathei’, of rational exertion, mental and bodily. These various evils have therefore to be guarded against in India even more strenuously than in England.
In regard to the sun, it must not be forgotten that it is a 1ncml as well as an enemy. Half the cases of neura-sthenia and anamia among English ladies, and their general in-
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Red MixtureQuinine MixtureDysentery Powders