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Remedy for Croup
Turpentine drocyanic acid, 6 drops; extract of belladonna, is a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate 2 grains; paregoric elixir, 3 drachms; syrup a piece of flannel with it, and place the flan- of balsam of tolu, 1 ounce; and water, 3 ounces. Mix. 1 tea-spoonful 3 or 4 times daily. mode of treatment. The false membranes When the severity of the disease has passed are first freely cauterized with lunar caustic, off, change of air will be found most useful; and injections then made every hour against and if the child has become debilitated, tonics, the fauces with a solution of common salt, with nutritious diet, should be given. This the strength of the solution being such as not disease being very infectious, great care to create nausea. Chlorate of potassa may be should be taken to prevent communication of also given internally; and tincture of iodine any kind with houses where there are children as a local application; but M. Roche considers who have not already had whooping-cough. that the irrigations with the solution of common salt are the chief agents in the case.