Regency Health and Medicine: Remedy for Extreme Child’s Cough

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when you awaken in the morning For an extreme Gough in children Take three spoonsful of hyfop water and one ounce of fine fugar candy beaten to a powder keep it on the fire till the fugar is diffolved but it mult not boil when it has flood to cool put to it an ounce of the oil of fweet almonds when the whole has stood about two hours thake them together and give the child two or three fpoonsful every day according to the feverity of the cough This recipe appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

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