Some affirm that croup may be cured in one minute
by simply using floured alum and sugar. Take one
teaspoon of floured alum and mix well with two tea-
spoons of powdered sugar. I do not know how it is
administered, but I should carefully place a little each
side of the throat, and often, but I think I should
moisten it a little, for fear of sucking the dry powder
into the windpipe. After using hot ' cloths, bathe the
throat with equal quantities of sweet oil and turpen-
tine. Keep the feet warm.
Croup of Children.
Many a lovely child is destroyed in a single night by
this alarming disease. Its nature is described in the
first part. It is a disease of the windpipe, which is
filled or lined with a phlegm, which becomes more
and more tough, almost leathery, thickens, and at
length closes up the passage to the lungs and the child
dies. It usually comes on in the night. The destin-
guishing symptom is a wheezing, barking cough. A
mother who has ever heard it once needs no descrip-
tion to enable her to recognize it again. The first
bon are the most likely to perish with it, simply be-
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cause the parent has no experience of its nature^ and
hence is not alarmed in time or knows not what to do
while the physician is being sent for. In the hope of
being instrumental in saving some little sufferer whose
life is inexpressibly dear, at least to one or two, I will
make some suggestions, not for the cure of the patient,
but to save time. The instant you perceive the child
has croup, indicated by the cough, uneasy breathing,
restlessness, send for a physician, and as instantly
wrap a hot flannel around each foot to keep it warm;
while the flannels are being heated, dip another flannel
of two or more thicknesses in spirits of turpentine, or
spirits of hartshorn, or have a large mustard plaster
applied, one that will reach from the top of the throat
down to some two inches below the collar bones, wide
enough at the top to reach half way around the neck
on either side, and nearly across the whole breast at
bottom. But it will take time to send for a physician,
to prepare flannels, and to make the plaster or to
obtain the turpentined flannel, and in some cases fif-
teen minutes is an age — ^is death, if lost; therefore,
while these things are preparing, give the child if one
year old or over (and half as much if less), about
half a teaspoonful of hive syrup, and double the dose
every fifteen minutes until vomiting is produced; and
every half hour after vomiting give half as much as
caused the vomiting, until the physician comes, or the
child ceases to cough, when he breathes free and is
safe. If you have no hive syrup, give a teaspoonful
or half teaspoon of syrup of ipecac ✪ Hive Syrup for Croup(accord-
ing- to age), and double the dose every fifteen
minutes until vomiting is produced. If you have been
so thoughtless as to have nothing at all, boil some
water, keep it boiling, dip a woolen flannel of several
folds into it, squeeze it out moderately with your hand,
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and apply it as hot as the child can possibly bear to
the throat, and in from one to three minutes, accord-
ing to the violence of the symptoms, have another to
put on the instant the first is removed, and keep this
up until the breathing is easy, and the cough is loose
and the phlegm is . freely discharged, or until the
arrival of the physician.
A Small-pox Remedy.
Last April Dr. James Moore, of Ironton, Ohio, pub-
lished his experience with lemons as a remedy for
small-pox. It is as follows:
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Some affirm that croup may be cured in one minute by simply using floured alum and sugar. Take one teaspoon of floured alum and mix well with two teaspoons of powdered sugar. I do not know how it is administered, but I should carefully place a little each side of the throat, and often, but I think I should moisten it a little, for fear of sucking the dry powder into the windpipe. After using hot ' cloths, bathe the throat with equal quantities of sweet oil and turpentine. Keep the feet warm.
Croup of Children.
Many a lovely child is destroyed in a single night by this alarming disease. Its nature is described in the first part. It is a disease of the windpipe, which is filled or lined with a phlegm, which becomes more and more tough, almost leathery, thickens, and at length closes up the passage to the lungs and the child dies. It usually comes on in the night. The destinguishing symptom is a wheezing, barking cough. A mother who has ever heard it once needs no description to enable her to recognize it again. The first born are the most likely to perish with it, simply be-
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cause the parent has no experience of its nature^ and hence is not alarmed in time or knows not what to do while the physician is being sent for. In the hope of being instrumental in saving some little sufferer whose life is inexpressibly dear, at least to one or two, I will make some suggestions, not for the cure of the patient, but to save time. The instant you perceive the child has croup, indicated by the cough, uneasy breathing, restlessness, send for a physician, and as instantly wrap a hot flannel around each foot to keep it warm; while the flannels are being heated, dip another flannel of two or more thicknesses in spirits of turpentine, or spirits of hartshorn, or have a large mustard plaster applied, one that will reach from the top of the throat down to some two inches below the collar bones, wide enough at the top to reach half way around the neck on either side, and nearly across the whole breast at bottom. But it will take time to send for a physician, to prepare flannels, and to make the plaster or to obtain the turpentined flannel, and in some cases fifteen minutes is an age — ^is death, if lost; therefore, while these things are preparing, give the child if one year old or over (and half as much if less), about half a teaspoonful of hive syrup, and double the dose every fifteen minutes until vomiting is produced; and every half hour after vomiting give half as much as caused the vomiting, until the physician comes, or the child ceases to cough, when he breathes free and is safe. If you have no hive syrup, give a teaspoonful or half teaspoon of syrup of ipecac (according- to age), and double the dose every fifteen minutes until vomiting is produced. If you have been so thoughtless as to have nothing at all, boil some water, keep it boiling, dip a woolen flannel of several folds into it, squeeze it out moderately with your hand,
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and apply it as hot as the child can possibly bear to the throat, and in from one to three minutes, according to the violence of the symptoms, have another to put on the instant the first is removed, and keep this up until the breathing is easy, and the cough is loose and the phlegm is . freely discharged, or until the arrival of the physician.
A Small-pox Remedy.
Last April Dr. James Moore, of Ironton, Ohio, published his experience with lemons as a remedy for small-pox. It is as follows:
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Hive Syrup for Croup