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Updated: June 4, 2025
Lisle produced a tiny paper from her pocket, and emptied its powdered contents into half a wine-glass of water; stirring the mixture, she gave a spoonful to each suspected person, and then ordered them to stand in a row in the back-yard. This cruel woman watched to see the sable faces turned to a deathly yellow; ipecacuanha was a successful rack and torture.
At the earliest dawn of the disease give a few spoonful of Ipecacuanha Wine every five minutes, until free vomiting be exerted. In croup, then, before he be safe, free vomiting must be established, and that without loss of time. Take of Powdered Ipecacuanha, one scruple, Wine of Ipecacuanha, one ounce and a half Make a mixture.
A watch-key pressed firmly on the point stung by a scorpion extracts the poison, and a mixture of fat or oil and ipecacuanha relieves the pain. The Bushmen of these districts are generally fine, well-made men, and are nearly independent of every one.
Again, if ever your child has had croup, let me again urge you always to have in the house a 4 oz. bottle of Ipecacuanha Wine, that you may resort to at a moment's notice, in case there be the slightest return of the disease.
Take of Powder of Ipecacuanha, twelve grains White Sugar thirty six grains Mix well together and divide into twelve powders. One of the powders to be put dry on the tongue every four hours.
Thrice did he seize a worn-out stump of a pen, and essay to sign the loathsome paper; thrice did he clinch his teeth, and make a horrible countenance, as though a dose of rhubarb-senna, and ipecacuanha, had been offered to his lips. At length, dashing it from him, he seized his brass-hilted sword, and jerking it from the scabbard, swore by St.
The doctor came, and finding the boy labored in breathing, administered a full dose of ipecacuanha. This relieved the child for the time; but about four in the afternoon he was distressed again, and began to cough with a peculiar grating sound. Then there was a cry of dismay "The croup!" The doctor was gone for, and a letter posted to Richard Bassett, urging him to come back directly.
They rarely, even in very severe cases, fail to effect a cure, provided the Tela Vesicatorina be properly applied, and the Ipecacuanha Wine be genuine and of good quality. If there be any difficulty in procuring good Ipecacuanha Wine, the Ipecacuanha may be given in powder instead of the wine The following is a pleasant form
Of Ipecacuanha, he says, "This is now in its reign; the most fashionable vomit." "I am not sorry that antimonial emetics begin to be disused." He quotes "Mr. Lock" as recommending red poppy-water and abstinence from flesh as often useful in children's diseases.
In the "Rules of civility" he had taken so to heart, the boy had been taught that "In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physician if you be not Knowing therein," but plantation life trained every man to a certain extent in physicking, and the yearly invoice sent to London always ordered such drugs as were needed, ipecacuanha, jalap, Venice treacle, rhubarb, diacordium, etc., as well as medicines for horses and dogs.
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