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Treatment of Croup
The great object is to diminish the inflammation and irritation, and to relax the spasmodic state of the muscles in the parts diseased. The vessels in those parts are overcharged with blood, by an imperfect action of the exhalants.
Place the feet in warm water, and give an emetic. (See No. 5169.) After bathing, rub the legs and feet well with flannel. Then give a vapor bath, if the patient can bear it.
Repeat the process, if needful. The perspiration will be greater by applying to the feet and each side hot bricks, and wrapped in days, when it subsides naturally, or an abscess may form in the tonsil and burst, or the tonsil may remain enlarged, the inflammation subsiding.