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Five grains of opium, given at the time the cough commenced disturbed the period, from seven in the evening to eleven, at which time it regularly returned for some days, during which time the opium was gradually omitted. Then 120 drops of laudanum were given an hour before the access of the cough, and it totally ceased. The laudanum was continued a fortnight, and then gradually discontinued.
Every time he'd cough it would fetch the blood. I could tell!... Oh, it was awful. I begged him not to cough. He smiled like a ghost smiling and he whispered, 'I'll quit.... And he did. The doctor came from Flagstaff and packed him in ice. Glenn sat propped up all night and never moved a muscle. Never coughed again! And the bleeding stopped.
Did you ever see her, father Marie La Corne, over at the post on Split Lake?" Severn dropped his head to cough, but Weyman say the sudden look of horror that leaped into the little priest's face. "Marie La Corne!" "Yes, at Split Lake." Severn looked up again. He had missed what Weyman had seen. "Yes, I've seen her." Bucky Severn's eyes lit up with pleasure.
It seemed to him that Old Jerry's bare legs looked pitifully thin and spidery and that his bony knees had a rheumatic appearance. "Hell! I treated you mighty mean," said he. "But I'most died when you began to cough. I thought sure "Tom choked and shook his gray head, then with the heel of his harsh palm he wiped a drop of moisture from his cheek. "Look at me cryin'!" He tried to laugh and failed.
She suggested staying at home, but Lois was indignant. "Stay at home with me, no sicker than I am! I should think you were crazy, mother," said she. So Mrs. Field got out her Sunday clothes and went to meeting. As soon as she had gone, Lois coughed; she had been choking the cough back.
Mulhaus, brightening up as the visitors entered, "but the cough hangs on. It's three months since this weather that I haven't been out, but the birds are a good deal of company." He spoke in German, and with effort. He was very thin and sallow, and his large feverish eyes added to the pitiful look of his refined face.
You are young yet, and do not understand the complications in which people sometimes involve themselves by making friendships out of their own sphere. But I understand, and I wish to caution you." "I am not aware that I have made any unsuitable friendships," said Margaret, with a rather proud look in her hazel eyes. "Well no, I hope not," said Miss Polehampton with a hesitating little cough.
The baby's crowing laughter seemed to drive out of his memory the wailing cry and the hollow cough and the sad, beseeching voice saying 'Father, and then the pitiless beating rain, which had been haunting him for the last three weeks. The sight of the baby, loved and cared for, had taken away a misgiving, which he had hardly been conscious of himself.
All these liberties so amused Doe that he could scarcely manage the "99" or the cough for giggling. And I was doing my best to increase his difficulty by pretending to be in convulsions of smothered laughter. Then the doctor sounded Doe's heart, and, as he did it, all the laughter went out of my life.
The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night-air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of to-morrow's prayer and sermon.