Sea Sickness. Two cups of coffee, good and strong, sugar if you like it, but no cream, taken on an empty stomach, an hour or two before embarkation, prevents Sea Sickness. It is just as well to prepare it at home, and carry it in a flask, and thus know that it is pure, good and strong.
Diarrhea of Infants with Colic and Vomiting. Common table coffee, in teaspoonful doses. Excellent.
Colic. First thing, inject coffee; strong decoction freely, and give to drink hot, repeated draughts - speedy cure.
Typhus of children - Cholera Infantum - Moaning Stupor. Coffee moderately strong, flavored with cream and sugar, given by the teaspoon, has a quieting influence, gives heat and moisture to the skin, is curative.
Hernia (even strangulated, death - door condition). Drink strong coffee, cupful after cupful, and bathe the rupture with the same; presently gas will escape, and the tumor vanish.
Opium Poisoning. Ply the patient with repeated draughts of strong coffee, hot; also keep up unremitting muscular exercise.
Coffee given in this way before and during the chill will cure Ague. The same will cure Spasmodic Asthma; but Caffein, adult, 10 to 20 grain doses, would, perhaps, be better.
Disinfectant. Ground coffee, sprinkled upon live coals in a shovel, and carried around in a room will, in a few minutes, clear the atmosphere of all impurities, especially of animal effluvia.
Delirium Tremens. Repeated draughts of strong coffee. for "dead - drunk" stupor, injections of the same into the bowel.