tooth with chloroform and laudanum. It will ease tne dread-
ful pain. A little bit of cotton dipped in a solution of shellac,
or of gum mastic and spirits of wine, makes a good temporary
stopping for bad teeth. Avoid the ordinary vaunted "nos-
trums," that is, the quack medicines said instantly to remove
toothache. Kreasote is the safest domestic remedy to employ,
if the pain be very bad; only get a friend to employ it, by
putting a little bit of cotton-wool dipped in it into the hollow
of the tooth for you, and do not try to put it in yourself, or you
will scarify your tongue and gums.
Vomiting, Obstinate. — When the Stomach will Retain
Nothing. — General Directions, when a Doctor Cannot
BE Got. — Keep the patient perfectly quiet, in a bed, if possible,
and on his back. Give no food for some time, and then only
teaspoonful doses at a time, with long intervals; leave him to
himself for an hour or two; then give five drops of chlorodyne
in a little water, and, after an interval, a little chicken-broth or
beef-tea. Milk, pure and simple, or milk with lime-water, in
very small quantities at a time, is often useful. If you cannot
keep these down lay a piece of lint soaked in a teaspoonful of
brandy and a teaspoonful of laudanum mixed, on the pit of the
stomach, cover it with a bit of oiled silk or guttapercha twice
the size of the lint, and renew it every four or five hours. A
mustard plaster will answer the same purpose, and is, probably,
more easily procured. Either application will help to quiet
the stomach. A teaspoonful of lime-water in a teacupful of
milk or of cold beef-tea (I have found that the stomach will
always keep down the white of an egg, well beaten up with
a teaspoonful of brandy, and given a very little at a time, when
it would retain nothing else), or of arrowroot, will often abate
the vomiting and enable the stomach to retain a small quantity
of food.
Thirty drops of wood naphtha and as much of the tincture
of cardamoms, in a tablespoonful or two of water is sometimes
used in this distressing complaint, and with success. It is very
useful in preventing the vomiting of consumptive patients.
Other experienced doctors say, use one drop of ipecacuanha
wine every half hour.
Typhoid Fever.— Intestinal, or Enteric, Fever.— Symptoms.
— This fever generally begins with slight premonitory symp-
toms, such as chilliness, loss of appetite, and heat of skin,
sometimes vomiting, and generally diarrhoea, which seems to
defy remedies. The patient becomes weaker, and, from about
the seventh to the tenth day from the seizure, there appear on
different parts of the body — generally on the back and front of
the chest and abdomen — rose-colored spots, which are slightly
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tooth with chloroform and laudanum. It will ease the dreadful pain. A little bit of cotton dipped in a solution of shellac, or of gum mastic and spirits of wine, makes a good temporary stopping for bad teeth. Avoid the ordinary vaunted "nostrums," that is, the quack medicines said instantly to remove toothache. Kreasote is the safest domestic remedy to employ, if the pain be very bad; only get a friend to employ it, by putting a little bit of cotton-wool dipped in it into the hollow of the tooth for you, and do not try to put it in yourself, or you will scarify your tongue and gums.
Vomiting, Obstinate. — When the Stomach will Retain Nothing. — General Directions, when a Doctor Cannot BE Got. — Keep the patient perfectly quiet, in a bed, if possible, and on his back. Give no food for some time, and then only teaspoonful doses at a time, with long intervals; leave him to himself for an hour or two; then give five drops of chlorodyne in a little water, and, after an interval, a little chicken-broth or beef-tea. Milk, pure and simple, or milk with lime-water, in very small quantities at a time, is often useful. If you cannot keep these down lay a piece of lint soaked in a teaspoonful of brandy and a teaspoonful of laudanum mixed, on the pit of the stomach, cover it with a bit of oiled silk or guttapercha twice the size of the lint, and renew it every four or five hours. A mustard plaster will answer the same purpose, and is, probably, more easily procured. Either application will help to quiet the stomach. A teaspoonful of lime-water in a teacupful of milk or of cold beef-tea (I have found that the stomach will always keep down the white of an egg, well beaten up with a teaspoonful of brandy, and given a very little at a time, when it would retain nothing else), or of arrowroot, will often abate the vomiting and enable the stomach to retain a small quantity of food.
Thirty drops of wood naphtha and as much of the tincture of cardamoms, in a tablespoonful or two of water is sometimes used in this distressing complaint, and with success. It is very useful in preventing the vomiting of consumptive patients. Other experienced doctors say, use one drop of ipecacuanha wine every half hour.
Typhoid Fever.— Intestinal, or Enteric, Fever.— Symptoms. — This fever generally begins with slight premonitory symptoms, such as chilliness, loss of appetite, and heat of skin, sometimes vomiting, and generally diarrhoea, which seems to defy remedies. The patient becomes weaker, and, from about the seventh to the tenth day from the seizure, there appear on different parts of the body — generally on the back and front of the chest and abdomen — rose-colored spots, which are slightly