effectual in membranous croup,
and is recommended by the highest authorities: Yellow subsulphate of
mercury, or turpeth mineral, three to five grains, depending upon the
age of the child, for one dose. If it does not cause vomiting in fifteen
minutes, give a second dose. This, however, is seldom necessary. If the
turpeth mineral cannot be obtained, sulphate of copper or sulphate of
zinc may be given instead, as directed under the head of Emetics, in
Part III, Chapter II. If there be a quick pulse, hot skin, a hurried
breathing, and an occasional ringing cough, the child should be kept in
bed, comfortably covered, but not overloaded with clothes, and the
tincture or fluid extract of veratrum viride administered as follows:
Take fluid extract of veratrum, five drops; sweet spirits of nitre, one
teaspoonful; pure water, twenty teaspoonfuls; mix, sweeten with white
sugar, and give a teaspoonful of the mixture every half-hour to two
hours, according to the age of the child and the severity of the case.
If there be great prostration, with cold extremities, the carbonate of
ammonia should be administered, in doses of from one to two grains,
every second hour, in gum arabic mucilage. Quinine is a valuable remedy,
and is tolerated in large doses. The patient's body should be frequently
sponged with warm water in which a sufficient quantity of saleratus or
ordinary baking-soda has been dissolved to render it quite strongly
alkaline. If the bowels be constipated they should be moved by an
injection of starch-water. Beef tea and other concentrated, supporting
diet should be administrated. In those cases in which there is a
tendency to croup, the Golden Medical Discovery, together with iron and
the bitter tonics, should be given to build up the system and counteract
such tendency. The treatment which we have advised has been put to the
severest tests in the most severe forms of the disease, and has resulted
most successfully. If, however, in any case it does not give prompt
relief, our advice is to lose no time in summoning a physician who is
known to be skilled in the treatment of diseases of children.

SPASMODIC CROUP. In this affection no false membrane is formed. It seems
to have a nervous origin. Most frequently the child is awakened in the
night by a sense of suffocation. He may cry out that he is choking. The
countenance is livid, the breathing is hurried and each respiration is
attended by a crowing sound. The child has fits