CROUP.—Aconite 2X dil. Put ten drops in a glass half full of water, and give two teaspoonfuls every fifteen minutes in alteration with Spongia 3X trit. (tablet form) one at a dose. If there is no fever the Spongia can be used alone. Cough is hard, rasping, barking, sawing.
Hepar sulph, 3X trit. (tablet form), This can be used in place of Spongia in light haired children. Cough may be a little looser than the spongia cough.
BRONCHITIS, ACUTE AND CHRONIC.—Aconite 2X dil. Ten drops, etc. One to two teaspoonfuls everyone to three hours in first stage for the fever, etc.
Belladonna 2X or 3X dil., etc., same. Chilly, dry throat and dry cough, soreness, and rawness beneath the breast bone, pain in the head.
Phosphorus 3X dil. etc, Constant cough, pressing feeling under breast bone, a little mucus expectorated.
Tartar Emetic 3X trit. (tablet form), One tablet every four hours. Better for old people and chronic cases, when the cough is loose and much rattling from mucus. Also good in children for capillary bronchitis.
INFLUENZA.—Gelsemium 1X dil. generally at the beginning twenty-four hours one drop every hour.
Belladonna 3X dil. for sore throat.
Phosphorus 3X dil. for bronchitis.
Bryonia 2X for the lungs.