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Treatment of White Swelling

Attend to the stomach and bowels, giving an emetic and an aperient, if needed; to be followed by bitter tonics occasionally, giving the alterative syrup (see No. 5163), diluted when effects have been produced in a baker from great heat of the bake-room. It begins with pain in the head, or dizziness, quickly followed by loss of consciousness and complete prostration. Sometimes, however, the attack is as sudden as a stroke of apoplexy. The head is often burning hot, the face dark and swollen, the breathing labored and snoring, and the extremities cold. first taken; or a decoction of sarsaparilla, 5783. Treatment of Sunstroke. Take sassafras, guaiacum, queen's delight, unicorn the patient at once to a cool and shady place, root, cleavers, and prickly ash berries, of each but don't carry him far to a house or hospital. 1 ounce. Simmer in a covered pan with 2 Loosen the clothes thoroughly about his neck quarts water down to 3 pints. Sweeten. A and waist. Lay him down with the head a dessert-spoonful 3 or 4 times a day. Steam little raised. Apply wet cloths to the head, the part with bitter herbs, and now and then and mustard or turpentine to the calves of the give a vapor bath to the whole body. After legs and the soles of the feet. Give a little steaming the affected part, rub the limb weak whiskey and water if he can swallow. with the rheumatic liquid. (See No. 4884.) Meanwhile let some one go for the doctor. You cannot safely do more without his advice. 5784. Precautions Against Nightmare. Avoid all exciting causes, as too much abstruse thinking, late and heavy suppers, food difficult of digestion, cold feet, costiveness, and flatulence.