Kneel beside, or astride the patient's hips, and with
the balls of the thumbs resting on either side the pit
of the stomach, let the fingers fall into the grooves
between the short ribs, so as to afford the best grasp
of the waist. Now, using your knees as a pivot,
throw all your weight forward on your hands, and at
the same time squeeze the waist between them, as if
you wished to force everything in the chest upward
out of the mouth; deepen the pressure while you can
count slowly, one, two, three; then suddenly let go
with a final push, which springs you back to your first
kneeling position. Remain erect on your knees while
you can count one, two; then repeat the same motions
as before, at a rate gradually increased from four or
five to fifteen times in a minute, and continue thus this
bellows movement with the same regularity that is
observable in the natural motions of breathing, which
you are imitating.
Continue thus for from one to two hours, or until
the patient breathes; for awhile after, carefully deepen
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the first short gasps into full breaths, and continue the
drying and rubbing, which should have been unceas-
ingly practiced from the beginning.
AFTER TREATMENT.
As soon as the breathing has been established, strip
the patient, wrap him in blankets only, put him in a
bed comfortably warm, but with a free circulation of
fresh air, and leave him to perfect rest. If necessary
give a little hot brandy and water, or other stimu-
lant at hand, for every ten or fifteen minutes for the
first hour, and as often thereafter as may seem expe-
dient.
Family Remedies.
To inhale turpentine has proved of great service in
bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy and other throat and
lung affections. If you have a cough, sprinkle a little
on a cloth and hold it to your mouth and nose for a
few minutes, breathing the odor and note the relief.
For all Lung Trouble.
Mix equal parts of turpentine and olive tar; bathe
the spot affected daily and cover with oiled silk. Wear
it night and day till well, and for a cough take wild
black cherry cough syrup also.
Wild Black Cherry Cough Syrup.
5^ pound wild black cherry 3 pounds loaf sugar
bark i quart water
4 oz. tincture ipecacuanha 4 oz. paregoric
4 oz. tincture bloodroot 4 oz. antimonial wine
Take the inside of the bark, soak it over night in an
earthen covered dish. In the morning let it simmer
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(ndt boil) till reduced to one pint of the water; keep it
covered all the time. The bark will absorb some of
the water. Strain it hot on the sugar, then stir
in the other four ingredients. Set the pitcher
of syrup in hot water to dissolve the sugar;
keep it covered. When sugar is dissolved bot-
tle and cork tightly. Dose: one teaspoon every
four hours, or pour some in a cup and set beside
you and sip one-fourth of a teaspoon whenever you
cough, if bad. This has cured the writer of a bad cough
some three times, but do not let your cough continue a
year or two before taking it, or applying the olive tar
and then say " it does no good.'* I know of three
persons who had coughed a long time, whose lives
were prolonged many years by the use of it. Obtain
fresh bark from the tree.
Cough Syrup.
Mix equal quantities of unboiled linseed oil, Holland
gin and strained honey well together. Dose: Take
one teaspoon every three hours or sip some every time
you cough. This is excellent for a common cough or
where one coughs when attempting to speak.
Cough Syrup.
I ounce gum arabic i ounce liquorice extract
I ounce paregoric i ounce tinct. bloodroot.
Mix loaf sugar enough with this for a syrup. Dose:
Take one teaspoon every four hours or so.
Rhubarb Syrup for Infants.
One heaping tablespoon of floured Turkey rhubarb,
one teaspoon of soda, two gills of the best French
brandy, two gills of soft water, lump sugar for aiyrup✪ Rhubarb Syrup for Infants.
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Kneel beside, or astride the patient's hips, and with the balls of the thumbs resting on either side the pit of the stomach, let the fingers fall into the grooves between the short ribs, so as to afford the best grasp of the waist. Now, using your knees as a pivot, throw all your weight forward on your hands, and at the same time squeeze the waist between them, as if you wished to force everything in the chest upward out of the mouth; deepen the pressure while you can count slowly, one, two, three; then suddenly let go with a final push, which springs you back to your first kneeling position. Remain erect on your knees while you can count one, two; then repeat the same motions as before, at a rate gradually increased from four or five to fifteen times in a minute, and continue thus this bellows movement with the same regularity that is observable in the natural motions of breathing, which you are imitating.
Continue thus for from one to two hours, or until the patient breathes; for awhile after, carefully deepen
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the first short gasps into full breaths, and continue the drying and rubbing, which should have been unceasingly practiced from the beginning.
AFTER TREATMENT.
As soon as the breathing has been established, strip the patient, wrap him in blankets only, put him in a bed comfortably warm, but with a free circulation of fresh air, and leave him to perfect rest. If necessary give a little hot brandy and water, or other stimulant at hand, for every ten or fifteen minutes for the first hour, and as often thereafter as may seem expedient.
Family Remedies.
To inhale turpentine has proved of great service in bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy and other throat and lung affections. If you have a cough, sprinkle a little on a cloth and hold it to your mouth and nose for a few minutes, breathing the odor and note the relief.
For all Lung Trouble.
Mix equal parts of turpentine and olive tar; bathe the spot affected daily and cover with oiled silk. Wear it night and day till well, and for a cough take wild black cherry cough syrup also.
Wild Black Cherry Cough Syrup.
5^ pound wild black cherry 3 pounds loaf sugar bark i quart water
4 oz. tincture ipecacuanha 4 oz. paregoric
4 oz. tincture bloodroot 4 oz. antimonial wine Take the inside of the bark, soak it over night in an
earthen covered dish. In the morning let it simmer
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(ndt boil) till reduced to one pint of the water; keep it covered all the time. The bark will absorb some of the water. Strain it hot on the sugar, then stir in the other four ingredients. Set the pitcher of syrup in hot water to dissolve the sugar; keep it covered. When sugar is dissolved bottle and cork tightly. Dose: one teaspoon every four hours, or pour some in a cup and set beside you and sip one-fourth of a teaspoon whenever you cough, if bad. This has cured the writer of a bad cough some three times, but do not let your cough continue a year or two before taking it, or applying the olive tar and then say " it does no good.'* I know of three persons who had coughed a long time, whose lives were prolonged many years by the use of it. Obtain fresh bark from the tree.
Cough Syrup.
Mix equal quantities of unboiled linseed oil, Holland gin and strained honey well together. Dose: Take one teaspoon every three hours or sip some every time you cough. This is excellent for a common cough or where one coughs when attempting to speak.
Cough Syrup.
I ounce gum arabic i ounce liquorice extract
I ounce paregoric i ounce tinct. bloodroot.
Mix loaf sugar enough with this for a syrup. Dose: Take one teaspoon every four hours or so.
Rhubarb Syrup for Infants.
One heaping tablespoon of floured Turkey rhubarb, one teaspoon of soda, two gills of the best French brandy, two gills of soft water, lump sugar for aiyrup.
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