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Symptoms: Heavy breathing, troublesome cough. If the ear is applied to the chest a crackling noise will be heard with each inspiration. The heart is weak and the pulse irregular.

Treatment: Aperient medicine should be given, and be repeated once or twice a week, also the following mixture:

Recipe:

Liquor Morphia,	½ to 3 drachms.[1]
Hoffman’s Spirit,	½ to 3 drachms.
Paregoric,	1 to 4 drachms.
Syrup of Squills,	2 to 8 drachms.
Water to	1½ to 6 ounces.

Doses: One teaspoonful to a tablespoonful three or four times a day, or from ten drops to a teaspoonful of glyco-heroin in a little water may be given three or four times a day.[1]

When the condition is the result of heart disease, which is often the case, give the following mixture:—

Recipe:

Tincture Digitalis,	20 drops to 1½ drachms.[1]
Tincture Nux Vomica,	12 drops to 1½ drachms.
Compound Sulphuric Ether,	½ to 3 drachms.
Syrup,	2 drachms to 1 ounce.
Water to	1½ to 6 ounces.
Mix.

Doses: From one[1] teaspoonful to one tablespoonful three times a day after food. Aperient medicine should be frequently given.

Diet: Raw or very tender-cooked meat, given in small quantities, three times a day. No other food.