Hive Syrup for Croup

Ingredients

• half a teaspoonful of hive syrup
• a teaspoonful of syrup of ipecac

Method

1. 1

   If the child is one year old or over, give about half a teaspoonful of hive syrup and double the dose every fifteen minutes until vomiting occurs.

2. 2

   If hive syrup is unavailable, use syrup of ipecac in the same manner.

3. 3

   If no syrup is available, boil water, dip a woolen flannel into it, and apply it hot to the throat, replacing it every few minutes until breathing eases.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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

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