Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
Group. and Its Cure.

This disease is with good reason
dreaded by most mothers, for compare
lively few families of children grow up
without its manifestation among them
in at least {: light form, and no one
knows that it will not speedily assume
a dangerous stage. ''Nellie Burns
writes to the An1e:icap Agr'tcultxr5t:
In providing for winter, the family
medicine chest SHOULD have due atten-
ton. Much serious illness, and some
times that which would be fatal, may
be prevented by having some simple
remedy immediately at hand Espe-
Gladly isSthiss the ease with Group, q
Dangerous disease. with which az child
may be suddenly attacked at night
perhaps when a physician can not be
easily procured. This, quickly working
disease can usually be speedily subdued
remedies while bysa little delay it may
at least be more difficult to cure than if
checked at once.
After years of experience with Group
ing children, find the following treat
ment most ef1ectire. Always keep a
bottle of sweet oil, md either plenty OF
s'hive sirup' or tartar .emetic,, in
powders suited to the age of the child.
At the first croupy cough, which is an
unmistakable sound wrap the child in
a warm wooden blanket, and hold it
with its feet to the fire, to induce per-
spiration as quickly as possible. Also
give at once ''hlve 1sirlnpn on the tartar
emetic powder. Ii the latter, mix it
with a little warm water and sugar.
Also rub. the throat, chest, and soles of
the feet with sweet oil, and saturate
piece of flannel with the oil, heat it as
hot as can be borne, and wrap it around
the neck. The child will have little re-
lief until it vomits, when it will fall
into a restless SLEEP. Keep it in n warm
room during the night occasionally re-
heating the flannel on the neck.
Group rarely spends itself in one
night, but IS apt to return a second and
third night, often growing. more severe
with each return. So it is highly inn
portant to have the child well protected
and kept in warm atmosphere during
the day.
Mix together cupful of molasses,
quarter of a cupful of butter, add sufii-
Gent cayenne pepper 20 give it sharp
taste. Let the mixture boil several
minutes. Give the child a teaspoonful
every hour until it is relieved.
The dry method of inducing perspira-
ton in Group is safer than to inmerse
the child in water, as there is danger of
taking fresh cold while undressed, and
in being removed from the bath; and
further. a suffering child will not sub
nit to. being placed in water without
crying, which will produce choking and
coughing, much to its discomfort.
A mother who has had much success
full experience in treating Group among.
her own children and others, tells us
she keeps syrup of ipecac, sweet Oil,
paregoric, and camphorated oil (ortvo-
LATHE liniment) in the house. At the
first Group sound the child is wrapped
very warmly. and it's feet heated in
mustard water as warm as it can be
borne At the same time she begins
giving syrup of ipecae in small doses,
from fifteen to thirty drops, according
to the age, repeating it every half hour
until free vomiting is secured. The
neck and chest are bathed in camphor-
ated oil, and kept warm with cotton
batting or several layers of soft flannel.
Attcl vomiting, and sleep if it occurs.
q teaspoonful of cough mixture Oess
to an infantl is given every three or
four hours, until all croupy symptoms
disappear. This cough mixture, which
is excellent for any cough, is simply
mixture of parts of sweet oil, paregoric
and syrup of ipecac, and should be kept
on hand.--Anaericaa Agrlcultur5st. s {