Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-28
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

p MEDICAL Journal gives the following
! simple remedy for relieving hiccough
Initiate the lungs as fully as possible.
and thus press firmly on the agitated di-
aphragm. In q few seconds the spas.
mode action OF the muscles will cease.
DYsENTERY CHOLERA CoRDAL.-Two
ounces tlncture cayenne, one ONCE spir-
It's camphor, one ounce tincture rhu"
barb, two ounces essence peppermint,
two ounces best brandy, two drachms
laudanum. Dose for AN adult, one tea
spoonful every hour until relief Is ob.
tanned
A HEALING OINTMENT. Put a little
beeswax in a pipk1n and add some fine
olive oil; as it meAts add more, till the
mixture assumes the consistency of but
ter. This is good for abraided flesh
cuts, chilblains or any broken surface
which requires to be healed, not drawn.
Group How TO SAVE THE Chill
DREy.-Many lovely child is destroyed
II a single night by this alarming dis
ease 1t is a disease of the windpipe,
which is filed or lined with phlegm,
which becomes more and more tough,
almost leathery-thickens and at length
closes up the passage to the lungs and
the child dies. 1t usually comes on in
the night. The distinguishing symptom
Is wheeling, barking cough. A mother
who has ever heard it once needs no
description to enable her to recognize it
again. The tirstborn are most likely to
perish with 1t; simply because the
parent has no experience Of its nature,
and hence Is not alarmed in time. or
Knows not what to do, while the physi-
clan Is being sent for. In the hope of
oe9Ag instrumental in saving some little
eN4erer, whose lie Is inexpressibly dear,
otleast to one or two, l viii make some
suggestions, not for the cure OF the pa
tleut but to save time. The instant
you peceive the child has Group, indi-
Gated by the barking cough, uneasy
breathing, restlessness, send for phy-
slclan, and as instantly y wrap a hot fan
nelaround each foot to keep it warm; but
while the hannels are being heated dip
another flannel, of two or more thick.
nesses, 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 bone, wide
enough at tue top to reach hal
way around the neck on either side
and nearly across the whole bressi
at the bottom. But it will take
some time to send for a phvsicion r.
prepare hannels and to make the nIas+o,
OF obtain turpentined flannel. ana -
some cases fifteen minutes is an age,
death, if lost. Therefore, while thes,
things are preparing, give the child, j
/ wear old or over land half as much
less, about half teaspOonful of hiv
syrup, and double the dose every fifteeI
minutes until vomiting is produced
and every half hour after vomiting Civ
half as much as caused the vomiting
until the physician comes, or the chill
ceases to cough, when he breathes fire.
and is safe. If you have no hive syrup
give teaspoonful of syrup of ipecac
and double the dose every fifteen min
utes until vomiting is produced. Bette.
yet would he five drops extract Of lobe
Ia, obtained of any botanic druggist
Vomiting will generally save the child
II you have been so thoughtless as t
have nothing at all, boil some water
Keep 1t boiling, dip woolen flannel c
several folds in it, squeeze it out model
fe'ely with your hand, and apply it a
not n as the child can possibly bear to it
throat, and in from one to three min
uteS, according to the violence of tn
symptoms, have another put on the in
slant the first is removed, and keep thi
up untl the breathing is easy and th
Sougn is loose and the phlegm lis freel
uhSag' hscnaFged' or until the arrival Of th
ehyslc'an,-Fanat1y Physician,