Excerpt from Handy Book of Medical Information and Advice
When an attack has occurred, its severity will be frequently mitigated by the exhibition of one or other of the most approved anti-spasmodic remedies, as chloric ether, or chloroform the former in doses of thirty to sixty drops, the latter, five to fifteen drops. A mustard poultice, applied over the front of the chest, often brings relief. A dose Of laxative medicine, too, is likely to be useful Many suf ferers are relieved only by a free expectoration of phlegm from the bronchial tubes and in such cases, remedies which tend to hasten this effect do good. The author has a patient at present under his care, for whom a laxative is always first prescribed, and after its operation, a solution of tartar emetic, Of which one-sixth of a grain is given, till a free ex pectoration follows usually this supervenes in from eight to twelve hours, and then complete freedom in breathing returns. The gouty are sometimes affected with spasmodic asthma; they specially re quire to regulate the stomach.
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