—

Treatment. "When the abscess is completely formed, and there is no

longer any doubt of the presence of matter, it should be opened at once. To

let out the confined pus alleviates the pain and lessens the inflammation.

If

made without delay.

The opening should be large enough to let the matter out freely. It is a rule

to keep the incision open till the cavity of the abscess is so far filled up that

the matter lie close to the bone, the opening should be

another collection of pus is not likely to occur.

If the matter do not readily get to the surface through the opening, it

may burrow itself in the flesh, in a long narrow channel called a sinus. To

relieve this the opening must be extended in such a way as to give vent to the

new collection.

An abscess is sometimes indisposed to heal at the bottom, and pus continue;

to be formed a long time, and is discharged

through an opening smaller than

This is a fistula; and the opening to it should be

enlarged so as to let out the matter more freely. A little soft lint may then be

gently pressed into the wound to prevent its healing before the cavity below.

An abscess from acute inflammation requires to be poulticed for a time

"When the swelling and inflammation are gone, the

after it has been opened.

poultices are to be laid aside, and a bandage put on.

"When the inflammation

is gone, let the diet be improved; and if the discharge of matter be large, give

wine and tonics.

the sack which contains it.

ATROPHY, OR SHRINKINa OF THE HEART —The heart,

like any other organ, is liable to defective nutrition, and in

consequence of it,

may become small; it shrinks in some cases to the size of an infant's heart.

in

The complaint is generally caused by whatever reduces the general flesh, as

consumption, diabetes, chronic dysentery, cancer, and excessive loss of

blood.

Persons who have it are less subject to

It can hardly be called a disease.

inflammatory diseases than others, though they faint from slight causes, and

have nervous affections.

Treatment. If its causes can be discovered, treat them; if not, the treat-

—

ment should be the same as for dilatation.

DELIRIUM TREMENS. — This is often mistaken for brain fever;

It is not the result of inflammation of the

important to distinguish it from inflammation,

because the remedies which are employed for that would be injurious if used

but it is quite a different disease.

brain, but of irritation.

for this.

—

It is

Treatment. Opium and its preparations are the sovereign remedies.

Give 3^ of a grain of morphia; if this does not quiet the patient, give 30 drops

of laudanum every two hours, till sleep is produced.

Sleep will cure him,

and nothing else will. A draught or two of his accustomed drink, brandy,

gin, or whatever it may be, will also generally dispose him to sleep.

Recently, a very effectual remedy has been found in the use of tepKl beths,

prolonged from four to ten hours, in connection with cold applications to the

head. In connection with this, small doses of opium are required; out l^**

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191

treatment may yet prove to be very valuable by enabling us to dispense with

excessive doses of opium.

PAINTING. — TuEATMENT.— Lay the patient upon the back, with the

head low;

let

fresh air into the

room instantly, and apply gentle friction.

Sprinkle a little cold water upon the face, and hold spirits of camphor, ether,

hartshorn, or vinegar to the nose,

—rubbing a

upon the forehead, and about the nostrils.

give a tea-spoonful of

little of the spirits of camphor

As soon as the patient can swallow,

compound spirits of lavender, with 10 drops of water

of ammonia in it.

Persons subject to fainting should not go into crowded assemblies where

neither should they wear tight dresses, or allow themselves to

the air is bad;

get excited.

Cold bathing, a well regulated diet, and vegetable tonics, will do

much to break up the habit.

Remarks.

—Whatever causes debility, particularly of the nervous system,

will predispose to fainting.

Persons much weakened by disease, faint easily

When on their feet, such persons

especially when they attempt to stand still.

should keep moving.

Fainting is sometimes induced by sudden surprises and

emotions, by violent pains, by the sight of human blood, and by irritation of

the coats of the stomach by indigestible food.

GALL STONES. — Treatment. — To reduce the spasm, give Dover's

powder in full doses, or chlorodine. Also apply mustard over the right

hypochondrium and stomach, and follow it with hot fomentations with hops,

or use wet cups.

If the stomach is irritable, give the neutralizing mixture until it moves

A warm infusion of thorough wort, given to the extent of producing vomiting, will sometimes do well, and lobelia enough with it to relax

the duct may be useful.

To relieve the acidity on which the formation of these stones so often

depends, the following neutralizing preparation may be given for a long time,

the bowels.

the diet, in the meantime, being well regulated: Rhubarb, pulverized,

potassa, J^ oz.

of hot water.

Let this stand

;

% oz.

pulv. cascarilla, J^ oz.

pulv. bicarbonate of

pulv. wild cherry bark, i^ oz.

Mix, and pour on one quart

spearmint herb., pulv., 3^oz.

;

;

till

cold, and

add }4, pint of brandy.

Dose —

Half a wine-glassful. The sponge bath, with saleratus and water, should be

taken daily, followed by brisk rubbing; and free exercise in the open air

should on no account be omitted.

PLEUBISY. — Treatment. — As a general thing I am opposed to bleeding, and

am even reluctant to recommend it in pleurisy.

Yet if there is a

human ailment which will justify it, pleurisy is that one.

Sweating should be encouraged immediately. The compound tincture of

Virginia snake root, given every half hour, in tea-spoonful doses, will generally produce a free perspiration, and give

immediate relief.

It

may be givenf

At the same time, the affected

side should be fomented with hops, tansy, wormwood, etc., applied very hot.

in infusion of catnip, balm, or pleurisy root.

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193

If this does not afford relief, or only partial relief, give an emetic of the com-

pound powder of lobelia, and follow it with the compound powder of jalap,

or the compound powder of leptandrin, or prescription as physic: Pulverized

gamboge, 12 grs. pulverized scammony, 12 grs. elaterium, 2 grs. croton oil,

Mix. Make 12 pills. One pill is a dose,

8 drops; ex. of stramonium, 3 grs.

repeated every hour until it operates. At the same time keeping up the per;

;

;

spiration, with full doses of tincture of veratrum.

To produce sleep and perspiration at the same time, Dover's powder may

be given in 6 grain doses.

For the fever, nothing is equal to the tincture of veratrum viride.

The diet must be of the very lightest kind.

"When absorption of the fluid does not take place, a puncture is sometimes

made through the walls of the chest, and the water drawn off. This operation

is called paracentesis thoracis, and is generally, in uncomplicated cases, entirely

successful.

When this is not done, let the affected side be painted daily with

tincture of

iodine, keeping

up considerable soreness, and giving iodide

of

potassium at the same time.

Fluid ex. of sarsaparilla, 4 ozs. fluid ex. of pipsissewa, 1 oz.; water, 1

qt.

iodide of potassium 2 ozs. Mix.

Take a table spoonful 3 times a day.

;

;

RICKETS. —This is also a disease of scrofulous children. By some bad

process of nutrition in such children, there does not enough phosphate of lime

enter into the bones to harden them, and the weight of the body, or the pulling

of the muscles, or the pressure of the clothing, bends and distorts them in all

manner of ways. The heads of the thigh bones are pushed nearer together

making the lower belly narrower, the backbone is so curved as to lessen the

height; the shoulder blades stand up like wings when flying is contemplated;

and the shoulders are so lifted up that the head seems only a little higher than

the elevations on each side.

Treatment.

—A good, generous, wholesome

diet,

properly regulated; out

door exercise; the tepid or cold salt water sponge bath, with friction, and but

little medicine.

The hypophosphite of lime, in 2 gr. doses, given in a little

sweetened water, 3 times a day, or the syrup of the hypophosphites, in }/^

tea-spoonful doses, 3 times a day, may be given with advantage.

SHINGLES. — Treatment. — Light diet and gentle laxatives.

If the

patient be advanced in life, and feeble, the following tonic will be desirable:

1.

Bicarbonate of soda, J^ oz.

;

compound infusion of gentian, 4 ozs.;

Mix. Take a table-

tincture of Colombo, 1 oz. ; syrup of orange peel, J^ oz.

epoonful 3 times a day.

For external application2. White Vitriol, 1 dr.; rose water, 3 ozs. Mix. Apply outwardly.

Or the following ointments:

3.

Sulphuret of lime, 1 dr.; camphor in powder, 15 grs.; lard, 1 oz.

Make an ointment.

4.

Elder-flower ointment, 1 oz.

;

oxide of zinc, 1 dr.

Make an ointment.

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—

SPASM OR CRAMPS IN THE STOMACH. Treatment. -^

The following strong purgative injection will often bring immediate relief:

1.

Castor

oil,

tinct. of

3 ozs.;

prickly ash bark,

% oz.

;

comp. tinct. of

Virginia snake root, 2 drs. ; infusion of boneset and senna, equal parts, '^/^ pt.

Mix.

2.

Sweet tinct. of rhubarb, 4 ozs.; bicarbonate of soda, 2 drs.

From a tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful, as occasion may require.

Mix.

This, with

it, will often bring speedy

So will a mustard poultice laid upon the stomach. The mustard

poultice is a remedy of great excellence in many cases. It deserves to be called

the poor man's friend.

Remarks. Though generally of shorter duration, this is more violent than

heartburn. It is attended by a sense of fullness, by anxiety, and by great

restlessness.

In females hysterical symptoms are often coupled with it.

Great quantities of air or a gas are generally expelled, and the pain shoots

through to the back and shoulders.

a few drops of tincture of cayenne mixed with

relief.

—

TYPHOID PNEUMONIA. —

Treatment.— This should be like the

treatment of pneumonia and typhoid fever united. Great care must be taken

While active purging must not be used, yet if

not to use reducing remedies.

there are symptoms of an inactive state of the bowels, the following may be

employed:

1.

Leptandrin, 1 dr.

;

podophyllin, 1 scruple; scutillarine, 2 drs. ; pulv.

cayenne, 1 scruple; pulv. loaf sugar, 4 ozs. Rub together for some time in a

mortar. Dose For an adult, -^^ of the above.

—

2.

ext.

Leptandrin, 30 grs.

nux vomica, 6 grs.

;

;

podophyllin, 10 grs.

Mix.

quinine, 12 grs.

;

pulv. cayenne, 10 grs.

Make 24 pills.

One, two, or

three times a day.

When there are symptoms of great depression, use the following tonics:

ext. nux

leptandrin, 8 grs. ; quinine, 8 grs.

3. Podophyllin, 4 grs.

vomica, 2 grs. Mix. Make 16 pills. One, two, or three pills, at bed-time.

4. Pulverized Peruvian bark, 1 oz. pulv. rhubarb, J^ dr. pulv. muriate

of ammonia, 1 dr. Mix.

Divide into eight powders. Take 1 three times a

;

;

;

;

day.

5.

Aromatic syrup of rhubarb,

1 oz. ;

— Two tea-spoonfuls 3 times a day.

tinct. of

Colombo, 1 oz.

Mix.

Taking care to keep the cough

loose by flaxseed, slippery elm, and marshmallow tea, and by some external

Dose

irritant.

CHILDREN, MANAG-EMENT OP. — 1.

Diet.

— Between the

period of weaning and the seventh year the diet should consist very much of

farinaceous food, and milk; with a moderate allowance of animal food once

or twice a week.

2.

Bowels.— To keep the bowels of children in a healthy and regular

state, is a matter of

the utmost consequence.

calls of nature, not being aware of

13

They are too apt to neglect the

the importance of regularity in this respect.

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3.

Sleep.

— Children generally take a great deal of rough and boisterous

and during their education, their minds too are pretty much

employed; all which occasions considerable exhaustion, so that it seems quite

proper to allow them a due share of sleep, from eight to nine or ten hours at

least.

But it should be at sleeping time; and they should not be allowed to

doze and saunter during their waking hours.

4. Clothing. Children should have their dress accommodated to the

It is wrong to expose

season; and a due degree of warmth should be kept up.

them to cold in order to harden them; but a proper degree of exercise in the

cold air should be taken. The great evils to be avoided are, cold accompanied

with moisture, and any check to perspiration; which boys too often sustain, by

throwing themselves down on the moist ground, when heated by their games.

Flannel next the skin need not be ordered for healthy children; but where there

bodily exercise

;

—

much tendency to catch cold, or to have loose bowels, or continual paleness

make children

wear flannel. Much care should be taken to have the feet always warm and

dry; and to make them change their shoes as well as their clothes, whenever

is

of the skin, and weakness of the system, it will be prudent to

they get wet.

—

5. Cleanliness. Children should very early be taught the necessity

and importance of cleanliness. They should be made to keep their hair, their

teeth, and nails in good order, as it not only promotes their own health and

comfort, but renders them agreeable t» all around them. It is of the utmost

consequence to keep the skin very clean, as this tends to prevent many of the

cutaneous diseases which are so common with children, but which are so disgusting.

Washing with cold water about the chest will lessen the susceptibility

and about the feet, will strengthen them, and render them less liable to

chilblains.

Sea-bathing and swimming in safe places, are excellent both for

Cleanliness is not without a degree of moral influence,

health and cleanliness.

and has been very properly styled one of the minor virtues.

Children when in tolerable health, and not of an indolent

6. Exercise.

disposition, seldom require to be urged to take exercise; they are rather inclined

to take it too much, and too violently, and need a little regulation and superintendance in this respect. The practice of gymnastics or dancing is a good

exercise; and girls should use the skippi'ng ropes. When out of doors, children

should be allowed to choose their own amusements, and interfered with only

when they are in danger of doing anything unbecoming, or hurtful to themEven girls should have ample scope in their playselves or their companions.

time, and their own sense of propriety, will soon enough correct any tendency

to improper romping; their health will be promoted, and their figure expand;

and it is better to posses a sound constitution and an active frame, than to be

celebrated for proficiency in drawing or music, before the age of twelve or

to cold;

—

thirteen.

—

Moral Treatment. We charge upon nature many of the bad passions

which we ourselves implant in children. The moral treatment of children is

generally bad. We are apt to begin by either making them our masters or our

slaves.

Sometimes we do both, allowing them to govern us for a time, and

—

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195

then, getting into a passion, or a mood for playing the tyrant, we turn upon,

and govern them as if we were autocrats. We submit to their whims until we

grow irritable, and then, by way of retaliation, we compel them to submit to

ours. This is all wrong. Children should be governed always, but with an even,

a gentle, and a loving hand. They should early be subjected to habits of selfcontrol, and of regularity in eating, and sleeping; and should be taught absolute and continued obedience.

All this can be brought about only by firmness,

self-control, and great gentleness on the part of parents.

If they would make

a child cheerful and happy in its disposition, they must themselves be cheerful,

and never let it see anger, passion, and f retf ulness, marring their conduct. Nothing is more injurious to the health of a child than a peevish, complaining, and

soured disposition; and these vices are seldom acquired, unless seen in the lives

of parents.

1. DISEASES OP CHILDREN— Prickly Heat, Dysentery,

Diarrhea, etc.—Remedies.— Mrs. Jay, of Fern Grove, 111., reports through

the Blade, that an experienced physician taught her the following, in caring for

children broken out with prickly heat:

1.

II.

Keep them as cool as possible.

For a child of 3 years, give 3^ tea-spoonful of cream tartar in the morn-

ing, for a few mornings.

Bathe them in tepid (a little warm) water, with a little soda in it, every

It is also good to have a tubf ul of water (the chill off, of course), and

let the child splatter in it for about fifteen minutes.

IV. When the heat breaks out in little pimples, which are all sore, grease

them over with fresh (unsalted) grease of any kind; then dust over with pul

III.

night.

verized starch, at least once a day, to keep them from smarting.

2.

Dysentery, Diarrhea, etc., of Children, Cordial for.- Thit

These little ones require much care during warm

I.

lady continues:

weather, with their dysenteries, diarrheas, etc., from teething. I have found the

blackberry balsam, as I call it, a most excellent remedy, but when the disease is

of long standing, and there seems to be pain and soreness of the bowels, it is best

to keep them very quiet, scarcely rocking them (so the doctor told me) and

apply spirits of turpentine over the bowels. Take a cloth dampened with the

turpentine, large enough to extend up over the stomach, as well as to cover the

bowels, and leave it on long enough to cause redness, but not to blister.

take

it

off,

Then

and when the redness goes away, apply again, until it seems to be

out of pain, or easier, or:'—

—

Onion Poultices Applied in the same way, are very good; but the turhand, acts quicker. Onion poultice is made by chopping, or

slicing, 2 onions into a spider with a little water and cooking well, then spread

on a cloth.

Reimarlcs.

This cooking of the onion, accounts to the author, for their not

acting as quickly as the turpentine; mash them and lay them on raw, and I

think they will act as quickly and as effectually as the others. Her balsam id

II.

pentine,

if at

—

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196

entirely different

from any I have seen, but it will be found very valuable.

It

is as follows:

—

III.

Blackberry Balsam and Cordial for Children. Take of the small

and growing roots of the blackberry, 4 ozs.; bark of the bayberry, 2 ozs.

cranes-bill root (known also as geranium maculatum by the profession, and

alum root by the people), and cinnamon bark, each 1 oz.; gum myrrh and

cloves, each i^ oz. fennel seed, J^ oz. loaf sugar and brandy as given below.

Directions The roots should all be cut short, then with the other articles all

bruised, and steeped in 3 qts. of water until half is evaporated (4 to 6 hours at

least), making up with hot water if too much evaporation; but if steeped

slowly, as it should be, or covered, it will be about right; then strain, and for

the balsam add loaf sugar, 1 lb., and dissolve by heat.

For the Cordial. Make the same way, but add sugar, Jl" lb., and best

French brandy, 3^ pt. Each are to be bottled and kept corked for use. Dose

—For children, 1 to 3 tea-spoonfuls, according to age and severity of the disease;

repeat every 1, 8 or 3 hours, as needed. For adults for it is good for them

;

;

—

—

—

too

— 1 table-spoonful for a dose, time as above.

Remarks.

— I can see no reason for making two kinds, balsam and cordial.

and the brandy, or good whiskey, as one

can get handiest, i^ pt. to the strained mixture, and call it syrup, and be done

with it; for the spirit will insure its better keeping and action. Prof. King in

speaking of the fruit of this berry family, in which the red raspberry, dewI should put the full 1 lb. of sugar

berry, etc., are all included, says:

"The fruit, especially that of the black-

berry, is of much service in dysentery, being pleasant to the taste, mitigating

(easing) the accompanying tenesmus (griping and straining) and suffering of the

patient, and ultimately effecting a cure.

Blackberry syrup has cured cases of

dysentery, even after physicians had despaired of a cure."

3.

Dr. J. D. Lauers, of Conover, Ohio, adds to the blackberry cordial,

made by any good cordial recipe, as follows: "Blackberry cordial, IJ^ ozs.;

tinct.

kino and paregoric, each, 1% drs., and syrup of ginger sufRcent to fill a

Dose For an adult, 1 tea-spoonful every hour. For children,

—

^ tea-spoonful every hour. In severe cases increase the dose."

Remarks. —It will need some care about increasing the dose,

8 oz. bottle.

given so

if

often, as the kino is quite astringent and might, if the dose is large and given

often, have a tendency to produce the opposite condition

this, and you will

—constipation.

be safe, as it is not best to sew one up too tight.

Watch

As much

syrup of rhubarb added, as tinct. of kino, would prevent that condition, and improve the syrup for the purpose intended.

—

4. Summer Complainic from Teething of Children. Sub-carbonate of bismuth, 36 grs. Dover's powder, 6 grs. Mix thoroughly, and

divide into 12 powders. Dose For a child from 1^^ to 2 years, 1 powder in a

little syrup, every 3 or 4 hours.

When the looseness, or diarrhea, has improved

to justify it, give only 2 or 3 daily, when needed, to keep it under control so

long as the irritation from the teething causes the continuance of the diarrhea.

;

—

If properly managed it will control it.

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Remarks.

—I think, in one case, a girl oi 1% years old, I continued its use

occasionally for nearly a year.

doctors say,

197

The child being weak and feeble

—but care and perseverance overcame both

—puny, as the

and at this

Without these pow-

difficulties,

writing, she is nearly 8 years old and of very good health.

ders and the care, I believe she would years ago have been in her grave.

—

5. Colie of Infants and Adults, Quick Relief and Cure.

For Infants. Fl. ex. of dioscorea (wild yam, also called colic root),

dr.;

camphor water, 1 dr. simple syrup, 1 oz. Mix. Dose For an infant of 3

months or under, %, tea-spoonful every half hour, or shorter time, if not relieved.

"The mixture," says Dr. Harris, of Suwanee, Ga., "gives immediate and permanent relief."

For Adults. Prof. King, in his Dispensatory, speaking of the wild

II.

yam, says: " It is a specific in bilious colic, having proved itself invariably suc-

—

I.

%

—

;

—

cessful in doses of 3^ pt. of the decoction (tea), repeated every half hour or hour.

No other medicine is required, as it gives prompt and permanent relief in the

most severe cases."

The fl. ex. of this, which is now kept more generally than

heretofore, will no doubt prove equally effective,

and be

easier obtained

Decoctions are made by steeping 1 oz. of the root to 1 pt. of water.

Hernia, or Rupture of Children, To Cure.

6.

—A Mrs. A. ^.

Benson, of Loveland, Col., communicates the following cure for hernia of children to the Blade, which I trust will give as good satisfaction to others as it did

The sooner applied after hernia is known, the more

to her boy of 11 years.

likely it will be to effect a cure.

She says:

"I wish to give you a cure for Hernia,' or rupture, as used on my

He was ruptured when about 3 weeks old on one side, and had to

little boy.

'

I.

wear a truss. "When 2 years old he had a second rupture on the opposite side,

and since then has had to wear a double truss. This he could not leave off

save when lying down. A woman once told me, when he was a baby, that oil of

eggs would cure rupture, but I did not know how to prepare it, and had no

My boy is now 11 years old, and last summer I was told how to

faith in it.

prepare oil of egg, and that it would cure rupture. So I tried it, using it about

3 weeks. For 6 weeks he has not had on a truss. He has pulled beans, helped

to cut corn, and done a variety of chores around the farm, and seems perfectly

cured.

So now to the recipe for making oil of egg. I hope every one so

afflicted will try it.

II.

Oil of Eggs to

Make, as Used in Hernia of Children.

— " Boil 15 eggs

hard, take out the yolks and cut them up in a spider (skillet), put over a slow

fire

and stir constantly, gradually increasing the heat.

It will

soon dissolve

into a creamy looking substance; then, as the fire grows hotter, it will rapidly

turn brown and look almost like coffee grounds.

it will

Now stir rapidly all the time;

smoke and smell terribly, and you will feel sure that it is all burned up,

but keep at it patiently, and after awhile it will dissolve into a black oil.

Now

This quantity will make over an ounce of oil, and I

did not quite use up this quantity before my boy was cured, although I should

not have been discouraged if I had been compelled to make the second quantity^

strain it off and bottle it.

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Rub this oil on every night after lying down, being sure that the rupture is back

Then every morning use the following:

in place.

—

Healing Salve. "Melt together a little fresh, unsalted butter with

one-quarter as much beeswax, and after melting, add a few drops of oil of

III.

spike.

This is very healing and prevents its getting very sore on the outside.

I continued this treatment a little over three weeks."

Remarks.

it a fair and

— Let no one, who has a child with hernia or rupture,

fail to give

faithful trial.

7. Milk-Scab of Children, Cure for,—Fresh mutton tallow melted

and applied very thick, once or twice a day; wash once a week, or oftener, with

white castile soap; apply fresh tallow after washing; it will allay the burning

and itching; no medicine is needed.

Remarks. These scabs, or crusty eruptions, come out upon the forehead and

tipper part of the face of nursing children at first slightly elevated pimples,

—

;

sometimes becoming pustules, or containing matter, in clusters, the edges more

or less red and inflamed. It takes its common name from a supposition that

the mother's milk causes it; but I have seen it on children "raised upon the

bottle."

It is sometimes also called " honey disease, " because the scabs look

much like a drop of honey dried upon the skin. If it works up into, or upon

Besides washing with pure castile

t,he head, it would be called "scald-head."

soap, or a weak lye made from wood ashes, and applying the mutton tallow,

you can also give a little sulphur and cream of tartar, internally, to gently move

the bowels, and after, give less to act on the blood. These should be mixed

half as much sulphur as cream of tartar; then mixed in molasses or syrup.

This disease is also known as tinea capitis and dow worm at first it is only an

inflammation of the skin, but by neglect, want of cleanliness, and simple means

to reduce the inflammation by slippery elm poultices and the cream of tartar

and sulphur, it becomes aggravated, mattery, and harder to cure. In such

;

cases use the following;

French Ointment for Scald-Head of Children.— Rose oint-

8.

—

white precipitate, 1 dr. mix. Directions Wash carefully with

mild castile soap and water; dry carefully with a soft dry cloth; then, after a

few minutes, rub in a little of the ointment morning and evening.

Remarks. This originated with Prof. Splelman, at the University of Strasburg, France, and was used by him very successfully.

ment, 1 oz.

;

;

—

—

9. Scald-Head, Tar Plaster for. — This plaster has been recommended but if tar is to be used, let it be only in small proportions, as follows:

;

Boil a qt. of urine, 4 ozs. of lard, and a table-spoonful of tar together for an hour

or two; and when only warm, strain and add 1 oz. of sulpliur; simmer together

and strain again, and it is ready to use, taking all the care of washing, drying,

etc. ,

before using, and also not forgetting the aperient of sulphur and cream

of tartar, to keep the bowels easy and to act on the skin, wliich they do.

10. Bed- Wetting and Urinary Diseases of Children, Certain Hemedies. The following is from the Eclectic Medical Journal, of Citt

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The article was furnished by Dr. J. Berger, of El Passo, Kansas.

einnati, O.

He says;

I.

" I have been using santonine in difficulties of the urinary organs for a

year or more, and it has not failed to have the desired effect in a single case. I

have used it in suppression of urine, incontinence of urine, and dysuria{sGe III.,

When the urine is scant and deposits a

below), and also in fevers.

sediment, it is just the remedy.

'

brick dust

In my first case the suppression of the urine

was complete, and resisted all treatment as per books, also the reputed apis

mel (honey bee tea) was tried, and failed. But santonine thoroughly triturated (rubbed) with sugar, in

% gr. doses every 3 hours, established the secretion

in 8 hours, and cured the case in 24 hours.

I have used it, in two other cases of

[Then rub 4 grs. of sugar of milk, if done by a

druggist or, if done at home, in half a tea-spoonful of white sugar and divide

into 8 powders 1 for the dose, as above.]

suppression, with like results.

—

—

—

—

—

Enuresis, or Inability to Retain the Urine Bed- Wetting Proper.

II.

"The

second case was a lad of 8 years. His mother called on me for medicine; said

* Ed.' had worms and would 'wet the bed' 3 or 4 times during

the night. I gave

santonine triturated, in 2 grain doses, every 4 hours till 6 doses were taken.

Followed with tonics of salicine and carbonate of iron in 4 gr. doses, 3 times a

day for 4 days. Saw his mother two months after; said ' Ed.' had not wet the

bed since taking that medicine.

'

'

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Dysuria, or Pain and Heat in Passing Urine.

III.

" The third case wasj

a lady, aged 23 years, troubled with dysuria (pain and heat in passing urine).

She was cured with santonine in 2 gr. doses every 3 hours. Continued 12 hours

only, triturated as above."

Confirmatory of Dr. Perger's position above upon the use of santonine,

Dr. Scudder, in his "Diseases of Children," page 35, makes the following

remarks:

think of santonine as a vermifuge only; yet it has some other

"We

One of them is its influence over the bladder in retention

In some diseases there is sometimes a tendency to retention which

ordinary remedies will not reach, and which at last proves fatal. Santonine

thoroughly triturated with sugar, in doses of from i^ to 1 gr. every 2 hours,

desirable properties.

of urine.

affords very certain relief.

It is also very effectual in relieving

ing, etc., in passing urine

and the tenesmus (pain in passing of

other unpleasant sensations of the urinary passages," adding:

nine is deserving a place among the

'

burning, scaldurine),

and

"I think santo-

Specific Medicines.'

—

Incontinence of Unne {Bed- Wetting) Remedy foi'.

Sulphate of quinine, 7grs. tincts. of belladonna and chloride of iron (muriated tinct. of iron),

rV.

;

—

each 3^ oz. water, ?^ oz. mix and shake when used. Dose Give 30 drops,

3 times daily, one being at bedtime.

Remarks. The above dose is for a child of 6 or 7 years; older or younger

in proportion.

By the time this amount is taken, generally at best, there will

be no more "wetting the bed."

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FOR JAUNDICE OF YOUNG CHILDREN. — See under that

head, or "Jaundice in Children, Treatment, etc."

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1. ASTHMA, Quick Relief and Other Remedies for.

^though a lobelia, or some other emetic, has for a long time been considered the

only hope for relief, yet, more recently, the inhalation of chloroform has

proved generally a much quicker relaxant, and consequently the more satisfactory remedy.

It is not necessary to breathe it to entire unconsciousness, but

simply to relieve by putting a bottle of it— an ounce is sufBcient to buy at a

time first to one nostril, closing the other with the thumb of the opposite

hand, and, the mouth being closed, draw in a long and deep breath to the full-

—

est extent tne lungs will allow;

then alternate with the other nostril in the same

way until you realize the needed relief, or to the number of 3 or 3 times to each

nostril.

Then if not relieved, wait a few minutes and do the same again. It is

The chloroform is very satis-

better thus than to continue until unconscious.

factorily inhaled from a glass tube inhaler, which see in note following

"Acute

To be corked up when not in use,

Asthma, Relief in. — A friend of mine who had had asthma, so"

phthisic, or Consumption. "

2.

that, at one time, he did not go to bed for 5 years,

but took his sleep in a rocking chair, has found great relief inhaling the smoke of what he calls the

Nitrated, Stramonmm for Relief in Asthma.

I.

He says: " I gather the

—

green leaves of the stramonium, after the plant blossoms, and dry them in the

shade.

When dry, 1 soak them a few hours in a strong solution of purified

nitre

(common saltpeter does not answer), 3 ozs., to soft water, 1 pt.

the niter finely, and pouring on the wat^r hot, quickly dissolves it.

Powder

Soak the pre-

viously dried leaves in this solution, re-dry, in the shade, then pulverize the

leaves and keep from the air in

box or bottle.

To Use — Put a rounding tea-

spoonful of the nitrated powder on a plate, and touch a lighted match to the

heap, when, if properly done with the purified nitre, it burns without a blaze,

throwing off considerable smoke. Place a small funnel (more generally called

a tunnel), over it, and breathe the smoke arising from it by holding the mouth

as close to the funnel as possible, to inhale as much as you can of the fumes.

It will cause some coughing, at first, but this helps to clear the throat and bronchial tubes of phlegm and soon subsides and gives very great relief.

Remarks. I used this at one time after having taken a severe cold, which

settled upon the lungs, and found great relief, as it especially (as the gentleman

says above) helped to clear the phlegm from the throat and bronchial tubes,

most effectually. If it seems to be going out at any time, raise tire edge of the

funnel a moment, and" it will burn and sputter on again.

—

II.

Asthma Pmoder, Improved.

— Some persons think that sage, belladonna

and digitalis, the dried leaves of each, with the dry stramonium, all in equal

proportions, nitrated, as above (remembering always to use the purified nitre,

kept by druggists only), and inhaled in the same manner, is preferable to the

stramonium alone. If I were to use them, however, I would not use more

than half as much of the belladonna and digitalis as I did of the sage and

stramonium.

3. Whenever the inhalation of chloroform, or nitrated stramonium, etc.,

above given, fails, then 20 to 40 drops of laudanum, according to robustness of

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the patient, or the severity of the case, with 15 to 30 drops of sulphuric

ether, put into a glass with a little water, and immediately drank, will almost

always give relief at once.

This should not be taken often enough to establish

the habit of opium eating, which would prove a disease in

itself,

as bad as

asthma and as difficult to cure.

4.

Alterative Relaxing Anodyne, and Curative for Asthma.

tinct. assafoetida

tinct. of lobelia and iodide of potash, each, 2 ozs.

—Ethereal

;

—

and laudanum, each, 1 oz. simple syrup, 4 ozs. Mix. Dose From a

tea to a table-spoonful every hour or two, to relieve a paroxysm, for 3 or 4

doses.

As a curative, after the paroxysm has subsided, take the same dose only

3 or 4 times a day.

Remarks. In closing the subject of asthma, I would say in addition only,

that according to the condition of the system, any existing difficulty, as costiveness, liver or kidney complaint, must be met and overcome on general prinDo all, as per

ciples, that is, to treat them as you would if they existed alone.

instructions given under each head referred to, in connection with the above

items under this head, and very many cases of asthma will be cured, the general

(fetta),

;

—

opinion to the contrary, notwithstanding.

The condition of

the surface, to

keep it clean and the blood freely circulating therein, by the salt washings, dry

rubbings, etc., (which see), must not, in any case, be neglected in any long

standing disease. If neglected, it is at your own peril.

1.

JAUNDICE — Successful Remedies. — No matter how much

the liver may be affected, unless the stools are clay-colored, or, in other words,

without color, and the skin and the whites of the eyes yellow, it is not called

jaundice.

"With the yellowness of the skin, there is generally constipation,

tongue heavily coated, mouth dry, appetite variable, and sometimes headache,

nausea, or vomiting.

Treatment.

— With eclectics

it

is

claimed that the

fl.

ex. of

chionanthus

Virginica (fringe tree), in 10 to 20 drop doses, according to age and robustness

of the patient, will cure it.

Dr. Goss, of Marietta, Ga., prefers the tinct. made with 8 ozs. of the bark

of the root to alcohol, 1 pt.

In answer to some inquirers through the Brief, he

refers to the fringe tree in the following manner:

—

" The doctor again asks me about the chionanthus Virginica fringe tree.

my " Materia Medica," and also in my

" New Medicine," emphatically, that I had never failed to cure simple jaundice

I have stated in several journals, and in

with the tinct. of the root (bark of the root is what is used) of the chionanthus,

Several others ask me whether

when it was made from the freshly dug root.

it acts

on the liver, or not?

biliary secretions in health.

I

never claimed

it as

an active stimulant to the

It cures jaundice in some specific way, but how, I

do not know."

The doctor uses the tincture, made as above, in doses of 3^ to 1 tea-spoonful, 3 or 4 times a day.

University of Georgia.

to ameliorate

He first cured himself with it, while a student in the

"The faculty," he says, "having failed to cure me, or

my symptoms in the slightest degree.

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despair I finally concluded I must succumb to the malady; but, by accident, 1

heard of a tailor who had been cured of the jaundice with gin bitters, made of

the bark of the chionanthus root, so I procured some, and made me a bitters in

gin, by adding 2 ozs. to 1 qt.

Of this I took a table-spoonful 3 times a day,

and in 10 days I was entirely cured of jaundice; and at the same time I found

that it improved my digestion very much, and I continued it for a month or

two vdth much benefit to my digestive organs generally. [In making the

bitters in places where it grows plentifully, I should use at least 4 ozs. to 1 qt.

of gin, and take the same dose.]

"After that I prescribed it for others, and, I believe, always with success,

where there was no complication of diseases, I cured many soldiers in the

late unpleasantness,' only losing a single case, which was complicated with biliary calculi (gall-stones in the bile-ducts of the liver)." He closed by saying:

'

" Since I published my use of the chionanthus I have seen reports in various

medical journals of its success in jaundice and hypertrophy (enlargement of

the liver), as well as some reports of its use as a female tonic. I know a case

of hypertrophied (enlarged) uterus cured by the use of the chionanthus used

—

for a considerable time.

2.

Jaundice Cured by the Use of the Chionanthus and Ace-

tate of Potash.

— Dr. Henning, of Redkey, Ind., reports through The Brief

also (February, 1879): " Twenty years ago I used to give calomel and leptandrin

with poor success.

But now I give, in all cases, of the fl. ext. of chionanthus

(fringe tree) from 10 to 20 drops (of course according to age and robustness of

the patient) 4 times per day.

This will correct the action of the liver in a short

But in addition I prescribe the acetate of potassa (potash), 10 grs., 3

times per day, to act upon the kidneys (it is a very valuable diuretic) to pump

out and eliminate (throw oflf) the bilious excrementitious (of the nature of

excrement or feces, but here more particularly worn out) matter from the

time.

blood.

This I follow with the

elixir of calisaya (Peruvian)

bark with iron

and strychnine (kept by druggists) as a tonic, increasing the nutrition and

This treatment," he says, "has been very successful in my hands,

strength.

and I am satisfied it is the true theory of the disease in practice." He thinks it

best to " follow up the treatment 3 to 5 weeks to make a permanent cure."

3.

Jaundice in Children, Treatment of.—J. E. Ball, M. D., of

number of The Brief, as

number of The Brief 'Treatment for

Texas, reports a case which was printed in the April

follows:

"I noticed in

the February

Jaundice,' by John A. Henning,

more prompt in its action I

M. D., and as I think my treatment a little

will give you the full treatment of

my last case:

Called Feb. 3d to a child 18 months old; skin and eyes as yellow as saffron,

urine thick and stained its clothes of that saffron color peculiar to jaundiced

urine.

Prescribed: Leptandrin, 1 gr.

ginger, 2 grs.

;

podophyllin,

% gr.; pulverized Jamaica

Gave 1 powder every 4 hours

Also Tinct. of buchu and sweet

mix, and divide into 8 powders.

;

until the biliary secretions

were aroused.

Dose — Ten drops every 2 hours.

—First prescriptions acted well. Then prescribed: Fl.

spirits of niter, each, 1 dr.

"Feb. 5th.

ext.

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chlonanthus (fringe tree) and tinct. of sanguinaria canadensis (blood root), each

Dose Ten drops 4 times per day.

equal parts.

"Feb. 12th.

—

—Little patient entirely relieved; skin and urine as clear as

it

ever was."

4.

Jaundice, Allopathic Treatment of— Successful.

—I give the

folIoTvnng treatment because it contains calomel and may meet some cases where

me to follow

how a very little calomel will sometimes arouse the

the chionanthus cannot be obtained, and also because it will lead

it with

remarks, showing

action of the liver when, as the saying is, " everything else has failed. "

is from Geo.

B. Snyder, M. D., of Hays City, Kans.

This

It will explain itself.

It

was reported in the July number of The Bnef, 1879. He says:

" In looking over the April number of your valuable journal, I notice an

article on the Treatment for Jaundice.'

As I understand it, the mere presence

of jaundice is not a disease, but merely a symptom. The yellow skin indicates

the presence or hepatic (liver) trouble, the true character of which I am, in

candor, boimd to confess is not always easy to determine. The last patient

under these circumstances, I was called upon to see, was on August 19, 1878.

His symptoms were yellow skin, impaired digestion, excessive restlessness, with

'

eclampsia, etc."

[This

'

eclampsia,' here, no doubt, refers to an appearance, to

" My prescription,"

the patient, like flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy.]

he continues, "was: Hydrarg chlor. mite (calomel), 4 grs.

podophyllin, 3 grs.

potass chlor. (chlorate of potash, pulverized), 36 grs.; ex. of hyoscyami(hyoscy-

amus) 3 grs.

;

mix.

Make into 10 powders.

Dose

;

— One powder every 2 hours.

On the second day I found my patient so much improved that with a single

of nux vomica, I dismissed him. His

recovery to perfect health was absolute. " [A good tonic pill for these cases

would be: Quinine, 45 grs.; alcoholic ex. of nux vomica, 2 grs.; mix thorprescription of bitter tonics with ex.

—

oughly and make into 30 pills. Dose One pill only, 4 times a day, for an

These pills should not be given to children. But for them 1 gr. powadult.

ders of quinine might be given as the tonic, without the nux, in cold strong

coffee, which hides the bitter taste very much.]

Remarks. Dr. Snyder says, above, " the yellow skin indicates the presence

of hepatic, or liver, trouble," but the true character, he "confesses is not

always easy to determine." "Well, I would ask, why try to determine at all, so

long as the cldonantlnis,