Health and Beauty

1860

Whooping Cough Syrup

Take 1 gill each, of sliced garlics, sliced onions, and sweet oil; stew them slowly, in a covered dish, until the strength is all obtained; strain, and add honey, 1 gill; paragoric, and spirits of camphor, 1-2 oz., each; bottle, and cork tight for use.

Dose-For a child 5 or 6 years of age, 1 teaspoonful may be given 3 or 4 times daily, or whenever the cough is troublesome, more or less, according to age and circumstances.

This is a granny's prescription, but I care not from what source I derive information, if it gives the satisfaction that this has done, upon experiment. This lady has raised a large family of her own children, and grand children in abundance. We have tried it with three of our own children also, and prescribed it in many other cases with satisfaction.

It is excellent also in common colds attended with much cough. This is from experience too, whom I have found the most competent teacher in all the land.

Spikenard root steeped in a teapot, either in water or spirits,
and the steam inhaled from the spout, will relieve the hoarseness
and soreness of the throat and lungs, arising from much coughing.

It is said that an European physician has discovered that the dangerous symptoms of whooping cough are due to suppressed cutaneous eruptions, and that an external irritant or artificial rash, is a sure remedy.

Daily's Whooping Cough Syrup —-Take the strongest West India
rum, 1 pt.; anise oil 2 oz.; honey, 1 pt.; lemon juice, 4 oz.; mix
Dose-For adults 1 tablespoonful, 3 or 4 times a day,—children, 1 teaspoonful with as much sugar and water. He says this has cured more than one hundred cases.