Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-23
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

A MEDICAL journal gives the following
simple remedy for relieving hiccough {:
Initiate the lungs as fully as possible,
and thus press firmly on the agitated dl-
aphragm. In few seconds the spas
modic action OF the muscles will cease.
DYsENrERY CHOLERA CoRDIAL.-Two
ounces tincture cayenne, one ounce spr-
its camphor, one ounce tiActure 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 OBJ
tanned.
A HEALING OINTMENT. Put little
beeswax in pipkin and add some fine
olive oil; as it melts 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.
CRoUp- How TO SAVE THE Chill
DREN.-Many lovely child is destroyed
in single night by this alarming dis
ease. 1t is q 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 a wheeling, barking cough. A mother
who has ever heard it once needs no
description to enable her to recognize it
again. The frstborn are most likely to
perish with it; 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
being instrumental ii saving some little
sufferer, whose life is inexpressibly dear,
at least to one or two, will make some
suggestions, not for the cure of the pa
tient, but to save time. The instant
you peceive the child has Group, indi-
Gated by the barking cough, uneasy
breathing, restiessness. send for ply
sician, and as instantly wrap hot fan
mel around each foot to keep it warm; but
while the fannels are being heated dip
another flannel, of two or more thick
nesses, in spirits of turpentine or spirits
Of hartshorn; or have 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 the top to reach hall
way around the neck on either side,
and nearly across the whole breast
at the bottom. But it will take
some time to send for a physician, to
prepare iannels and to make the plaster
or obtain turpentined flannel, and in
some cases fifteen minutes is an AGES
death, if lost. Therefore, while these
things are preparing, give the child, if
year old or over land half as much if
less), about half 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 teaspoonful of syrup of ipecac,
and double the dose every fifteen min
utes until vomiting is produced. Better
yet would be five drops extract of lobe
liza, obtained of any botanic druggist.
Vomiting will generally save the child.
IF YOU have been SO thoughtless as to
have nothing at all, boil some water,
keep it boiling, dip wooden flannel of
several folds in it, squeeze it out moder-
ately with your hand, and apply it as
hot as the child can possibly bear to its
throat, and in from one to three min
utes, according to the violence of the
symptoms, have another put on the in
slant 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. -FaDaily Physician.