PHYSICIANS’TREATMENT.  For Coughs.—­

1.  Flaxseed (unground) 3 teaspoonfuls
     Extract of Licorice 30 grains
     Boiling water 10 ounces

“Allow the mixture to stand one to four hours in a warm place.  Then add a little lemon juice and sugar and place one to two teaspoonfuls of gum arabic in the pitcher containing the mixture.”  A little paregoric (ten drops to the dose for adults) can be taken with it if the cough is very bad.  Dose.—­Drink freely every two to three hours.

2.  A good combination is the following: 

Chloride of Ammonia          2 drams
Fluid Extract of Licorice    2 drams
Distilled water             20 ounces

Mix.  Teaspoonful every two hours or longer.

3.  Ammonium Carbonate 1/2 dram
      Syrup Senega 4 drams
      Wine of Ipecac 3 drams
      Syrup Totu 1 ounce
      Spirits of Chloroform 3 drams
      Syrup of Wild Cherry enough to make 4 ounces

Mix.  Take one to two teaspoonfuls every hour or two until better.

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4.  Ammonia Chloride 2 drams
      Hive Syrup 5 drams
      Paregoric 6 drams
      Syrup of Wild Cherry 4 ounces

Mix.  Teaspoonful every three hours until cough is better.

5.  Many other combinations could be given.  Hoarhound tea.  Sugar enough to sweeten makes a good cough remedy.

6.  Onion syrup is good for children.  The bowels should always be kept open.

Bronchial asthma. (Spasmodic Asthma.) Causes.—­It occurs in all ages, but usually begins in the young, particularly males.  It often follows whooping-cough.  It may come from diseases of the mouth such as adenoids, polypi.  Exciting causes are change of climate and residence, dust, smoke, odors, errors in diet, emotion, and cold.

Symptoms.—­The onset is often sudden, often during the night.  Difficulty of breathing is intense.  The patient cannot lie down, but often sits at an open window, resting the elbows on a table.  The face is pale and the expression is anxious.  There is a feeling of great oppression in the chest and often dread of suffocation.  Respiration (breathing) though labored, is not unusually frequent, as expiration (out breathing) is much prolonged.  In severe or prolonged attacks there are blueness, sweating, coldness of the extremities, with small and frequent pulse and great drowsiness.  The attack lasts a few minutes to many hours, and may pass off suddenly, perhaps to recur soon, or on several successive nights, with slight cough and difficulty in breathing in the intervals.  The cough is nearly dry at first and the sputum is very tenacious.