EVERY-DAY AILMENTS, AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 30, 3 February 1877, Page 2

EVERY-DAY AILMENTS, AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM.

Coughs, Sore Throat, and Hoarse- i ness.— -These symptoms are the result of constitutional disturbance, and when this is removed they will disappear. They arise from various causes, and when very severe call for medical treatment. It would obviously be impossible to give here directions for their cure, seeing that they differ so much in kind. Nevertheless, the following medicines will be found excellent for simple cases. The first is for children, the second for grownup people :— l. Take a table-spoonful of ipecacuanha, two table-spoonfula of treacle, and two of water. Mix these together, put them into a bottle, and give a teaspoonful when the cough is troublesome. When it is very tiresome, twenty-five drops of chlorodyne may be added to this mixture. 2. Take two ounces of Spanish liquorice, half a pound of moist sugar, the juice of two lemons, and a pint of water. Boil these very gently until the liquor is reduced to half; then add one ounce of paregoric. Give a dessert-spoonful when the cough ia troublesome. A little tickling cough that arises from cold may frequently be relieved by sucking potash lozenges, which may be bought at any chemist'a for threepence or fourpenco per ounce. A piece of new flannel worn round tho throat for a few days will often cure sore throat ; and a wet compress renewed every five or six hours is a most valuable remedy for the same complaint This compress consists of a piece of linen of three or four thicknesses which bas been wrung out of cold water being put round the throat, and then covered entirely with three or four folds of flannel. Hoarseness amongst children should be carefully watched, as it may bo the beginning of croup.