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PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Asthma

Categories: Respiratory Diseases

1. Inhale chloroform, or break a pearl
of amyl nitrite in a handkerchief and inhale the fumes; or smoke saltpetre

paper; or cigarettes containing stramonium (thornapple). Sometimes hot

coffee fumes are good.



To Prevent Recurrence. Take five to twenty grains of iodide of potash

three times a day. Do not eat much at night. Do not eat foods that cause

gas or that are hard to digest. A change of climate is often good. Hot

foot baths and hot drinks are helpful. Tincture of lobelia can be given in

severe cases, fifteen drops repeated every half hour until the patient

feels sick at the stomach.



2. Vapo-Cresolene burned in a room is very good. This can be bought in

twenty-five cent bottles in any drug store, with directions around the

bottle.



3. Tartar Emetic in one-hundredth grain, two given every half hour until

there is a little sickening is a very good remedy. These can be bought at

a drug store or from a homeopathic doctor or pharmacist.



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