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Ehrle's New Preparation of cold water

If there is no cough, the lauda- Cotton for Stanching Hemorrhage. num may be omitted. A little salt and water American cotton of the best quality should given will often check spitting of blood, when be cleansed by boiling it for an hour in a weak it comes on. Put the feet in warm water, solution of soda (about 4 per cent.), then re- and give as above, the elixir of vitriol, &c. peatedly washed in cold water, pressed out, Give also ipecacuanha powder in small doses and dried. By this process it will be perfectly of from 1 to 2 grains every 4 hours. cleansed and adapted to more ready absorp- 5565. Bleeding from the Nose. This tion. After this it should be steeped once or may be caused by violence, or may arise twice, according to the degree of strength from an impoverished state of the blood. required, in liquid perchloride of iron, diluted When it occurs in persons of middle age it is with water, pressed, and thoroughly dried more serious , as it is then often a symptom in the air-neither in the sun nor by the fire- of some other disease. The bleeding can then lightly pulled out. The cotton so prepared will be of a yellowish-brown color. It must be kept very dry, as it is affected by the damp.