WHOOPING COUGH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1664, 24 November 1887, Page 3

WHOOPING COUGH.

A lady who has recently had an anxious and exhausting experience of whooping cough in her family, and who had tried several remedies without satisfactory results, has called ttention to the late Professor Kirk’s method of treating this distressing ailment. Her experience is that the treatment acts like a charm and gives both patient and nurse much needed rest. Of course, like all the Professor’s remedies, it is very simple. In his “ Papers on Health,” he says whooping cough is a purely nervous affection. A harsh word will bring on a “..kink” and a stroke on the palm of the hand will bring it too. It varies in its manifestations according to the amount of “ nerve” in the subject of it; a resolute child is always worse than an easily contrplled one. And now for the remedy: The Professor says that he had never seen a case in which three or four teaspoonfalls of hot water failed to give visible relief to a child in whoopin g cough. The three or four spoonfulls of water, a little hotter than the blood (98 dogs.), just meets the case with heat sufficient to make the convulsive “ kink ” unnecessary, or at least necessary only in a very mitigated degree. If a stick of liquorice and an ounce of linseed are boiled In a quart of water down to a pint, strained and kept for use, and a teaspoonful of this is given thrice a day, while sips of hot water are given more frequently, a great deal will be done to mitigate and cure this disease. To soothe the whole system, bathe the patient’s feet once in two nights in water above blood heat a little, dry and rub gently with warm olive oil, put on soft cotton stockings and put to bed. On the nights when

the feet are not bathed wash the back kindly with soap and hot water, dry and rub gently with warm oliTe oil. Dry this gently off and put to bed. If nothing beyond pure whooping cough is present not much more than these applications should be necessary. The same treatment is recommended to ward off attacks.