of coughing or crying,
and makes vehement struggles to recover his breath. This complaint,
unlike croup, is unattended by fever, it being of a purely spasmodic
character with no inflammation.

Apply hot fomentations to the throat, and give frequent small doses of
tincture or fluid extract or syrup of lobelia, to produce slight nausea;
or, better still, an acetic syrup of blood-root, made by adding one
teaspoonful of the crushed or powdered root to one gill of vinegar and
four teaspoonfuls of white sugar. Heat this mixture to the boiling
point, strain, and administer from one-fourth to one teaspoonful every
half-hour or hour. Slight nausea should be kept up, but it is
unnecessary to produce vomiting. This is usually all the treatment that
is required.

WHOOPING-COUGH. (PERTUSSIS.)

This is primarily a disease of the nervous system, involving the
respiratory organs through the medium of the pneumogastric nerve. It is
considered a disease of childhood, though we have met with it in _old
age_. It is eminently a contagious affection, and occurs generally but
once during life.

SYMPTOMS. It is at first manifested by a catarrhal cough, gradually
developed. After a while it becomes paroxysmal, generally worse at
night. The cough is severe, and long-continued; when a prolonged
inspiration occurs, it is accompanied by a peculiar shrill sound, the
characteristic _whoop_, which, when once heard, is never forgotten. The
cough is attended by a copious secretion of glairy mucus, which is
brought up at the latter part of the paroxysm. During, or at the end of
the paroxysm, vomiting frequently occurs, and sometimes nosebleed. The
cough is so severe at times, that the patient turns purple, gasps for
breath, and presents all the symptoms of suffocation. Bronchitis
sometimes is a troublesome complication. Immediately preceding a
paroxysm of coughing a sense of impending danger appears to seize the
child, and it runs to its mother, or grasps some support, as if for
protection. Until the paroxysmal character and peculiar _whoop_ is
developed, the disease is diagnosed with difficulty.

TREATMENT. We have found the Golden Medical Discovery to modify the
disease and cut it short. The philosophy of its action can be readily
understood by its effect on the pneumogastric nerve, as explained under
consumption and bronchitis. Jaborandi, described under the head of
diaphoretics, often speedily arrests this disease. The employment of an
inf