Or — Take of the best purified honey and pure sweet oil, each, 2 ounces;
fresh lemon-juice, 1 ounce ; syrup and paregoric, each, ^ ounce. Mix, to
form an emulsion. Dose, a tea-spoonful whenever the cough is most trou-
blesome.
Cough Mixture,

Paregoric ehxir, 1 ounce ; powdered gum arabic, 1 ounce ; simple wa-
ter, 2 ounces ; sweet spirit of nitre, 2 drachms ; antimonial wine, 1 drachm.
Mix and dissolve. Dose, one table-spoonful to be taken whenever the cough
is troublesome. But, in the iSrst stage of catarrh, when inflammatory
symptoms are present, this and all opiates are improper.
Or-i— Paregoric elixir, 1^ ounce; antimonial wine and syrup of squills,
each, 1 ounce ; lac ammoniac, 4 ounces ; syrup of balsam tolu, 1 ounce.
Dose, half a table-spoonful every two or three hours for adults.
Or — Tincture of opium, I drachm ; wine of ipecacuanha, i drachm ;
oxymel of squills, i ounce. Mix. Dose, for adults, a tea-spoonful eveiy
two hours while the cough is severe.
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Cure for Whooping-cough,
A tea-8poonfal of castor oil to a tea-spoonful of molasgcs ; a tea-spoonful
of the mixture to be given whenever the cough is troublebome. It affords
Telief at once, and in a few days effects a cure. The same medicine relieves
croup, however violent the attack.
Cure for Cough in Horses,
Take half a pound of nitre, a quarter of a pound of black regulus of an-
timony, and two ounces of antimony? mix them well in a mortar, and
make up into doses of one ounce each. Give the horse one in a cold mash
every night, in mfld weather, for three nightft ; then omit it for a week.
