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Bronchitis
An inflammation of blesome, take a table-spoonful. This is an the mucous lining of the bronchia, or smaller excellent remedy. ramifications of the windpipe. In its milder 5600. Pulmonary Syrup. Blood-root, form it is commonly called a cold on the chest. The usual symptoms are hoarseness, boneset, slippery elm bark, coltsfoot, elecampane, of each 2 ounces; white root, spikenard dry cough, a slight degree of fever, followed root, of cach 4 ounces; comfrey root, poplar by by expectoration of mucus, at first thin, and bark, of each 1 ounce; lobelia, horehound, afterwards thick and copious. In the severer snake-root, of each ounce. forms there is more fever, cough, and oppres- them 2 quarts of boiling water; stir well, Pour upon sion at the chest, &c. The generality of cases add 1 pound molasses, and, when cool, 1 quart of bronchitis yield to small and repeated Holland gin. It is one of the best remedies doses of ipecacuanha and antimonial diaphoretics, at the same time adopting a light diet, and keeping the bowels open with mild purgatives.