w that are most frequently
employed by the profession. They can be easily and inexpensively
prepared by any patient or druggist:

1. Equal parts of the tinctures of lobalis capsicum and skunk cabbage
root. _Dose_.--Take a half teaspoonful in a little water every ten or
fifteen minutes until relieved.

NOTE.--This is an antispasmodic and relaxant. In considerable quantities
it will produce sickness at the stomach and perhaps vomiting. It should
not be used when there is disease of the heart.

2. Chloroform. _Dose_.--A small quantity (say thirty drops), may be
poured upon a handkerchief or napkin, held about one inch from the
nostrils and the vapor inhaled. It is quite unnecessary to use this
until insensibility follows; in fact, such an effect would be hazardous
to life in the hands of the inexperienced.

3. Sulphuric ether. _Dose_.--The same as No. 2, and with the same
precaution. Either of them should be used promptly upon the beginning of
the paroxysm.

4. Take four ounces of stramonium leaves and strip from the stems,
rubbing between the hands to partly pulverize. To this add one ounce of
saltpetre, finely powdered. _Dose_.--Place a half teaspoonful upon a
very hot shovel. Inhale the rising smoke. If the first few inspirations
cause coughing, the smoke should not be evaded as the coughing incites
deeper inspiration.

5. Stramonium and saltpetre as in No. 4. Dampen with water and make into
balls or cones. These are more easily handled and are fired in the same
way as the powder and used in the same way.

6. Take of sunflower leaves, stramonium leaves, mullein leaves, one
ounce each; of lobelia leaves, half an ounce; of powdered nitre, one
ounce; and benzoic acid, two drams. Mix thoroughly. _Dose_.--A pipeful,
to be smoked the same as tobacco.

7. A cup of hot coffee or several of hot water. This is especially
effective in cases arising from checked perspiration, from rheumatism,
etc.

These recipes are given to the public as being the principal agents
employed by the medical profession throughout the world. It must be
distinctly understood that they are not _curative_ but merely
_palliative_, and used to relieve paroxysms. We object to them wholly
and unqualifiedly because they contain NARCOTICS. It is a fundamental
principle in our treatment not to use this class of remedies. They
stupefy the brain, debilitate the nervous system, and have, in not a few
instances, formed an unfortunate appetite and habit,