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Robert Kemp Philp267598. Consumption. The disease may be complicated with various morbid conditions of the lungs and heart, which require appropriate treatment. To allay the cough, No. 42 is an admirable remedy. Avoid cold, damp, excitement, and over exertion. 599. Convulsions (Children). If during teething, free lancing of the gums, the warm bath, cold applications to the head, leeches to the temples, an emetic, and a laxative clyster, No. 20. 600. Croup. Leeches to the throat, with hot fomentations as long as the attack lasts; the emetic, No. 16, afterwards the aperient, No. 5. Avoid cold and damp. [DESPISE SCHOOL AND REMAIN A FOOL.] 601. Dropsy. Evacuate the water by means of No. 10, and by rubbing camphorated oil into the body night and morning. 602. Epilepsy. If accompanied or produced by fulness of the vessels of the head, leeches to the temples, blisters, and No. 1 and No. 7. If from debility or confirmed epilepsy, the mixture, No. 18. Avoid drinking and excitement. 603. Eruptions on the Face. The powder, No. 30, internally, sponging the face with the lotion, No. 31. Avoid excesses in diet. 604. Erysipelas. Aperients, if the patient be strong, No. 1, followed by No. 7, then tonics, No. 27. No. 27 may be used from the commencement for weak subjects. 605. Faintness. Effusion of cold water on the face, stimulants to the nostrils, pure air, and the recumbent position; afterwards, avoidance of the exciting cause. Avoid excitement. 606. Frost-Bite and Frozen Limbs. No heating or stimulating liquors must be given. Rub the parts affected with ice, cold, or snow water, and lay the patient on a cold bed.

