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Troth's Cholera Mixture
Diphor, oil of cloves, and African capsicums, gest for 10 days 1 ounce each opium , camin 1 pint Hoffman's anodyne (see No. 4749); administer 20 to 40 drops every 2 hours.
Take 20 grains sulphuric acid specific gravity 5670.
Austrian Cholera Specific. 1.500; 15 grains cach sugar and gum; dissensibility of extremities are restored. It is tilled water sufficient to make the whole always to be given undiluted. Alcohol , or weigh exactly 1 ounce. other spirits, will answer the purpose, if the above mixture is to be taken in water on 1 table-spoonful of brandy is not to be had. It will be necessary the first appearance of premonitory symptoms, to combine with this, artificial heat, bottles followed by the free use of ice-cold water. A of hot water to the body and extremities, second dose an hour after is generally suffifriction of the limbs (which no one need fear cient to arrest the disease, but occasionally 4 to apply), and mustard, perhaps, to the feet or 5 doses are required. A table-spoonful in and hands, stomach and limbs. Remember a pint of cold water may afterwards be drunk bet- as often as desired. When collapse sets in, ter than excess of caution, and that no dandouble doses are to be given, and repeated ger is to be apprehended from any of these after every attack of vomiting, until the sickremedies so long as the symptoms for which ness and cramp abate. After which, the doses they are given are uncontrolled. The use of are to be repeated until 5 or 6 doses are recold water must be strictly forbidden, except tained by the stomach. Quiet sleep or drowsiness should not be interfered with. The free use of cold water or acidulated water is to be allowed until perspiration sets in and the warmth of the body returns. The use of warm drinks, wine, spirits, &c., are to be carefully avoided as so much poison. The above was adopted by the Austrian Governroot and leaves of the blackberry bush, a decoction of which in hot water, well boiled down, is taken in doses of a gill before each meal, and before retiring to bed. It is an almost infallible cure.