Measures against cough in patients

They often cough from fever or dryness. They should keep in their mouths cough pills or licking medicines made from sleeping pills, prepared with the pith of naturally cold plants, starch and the like. They also use cooling and moisturizing wax ointments made from pure rose oil, flea plantain mucus, squeezed purslane juice, and the like.

Sometimes it is caused by juice at the mouth of the stomach, as is known from what has already been said about loss of appetite in general. The juice is removed by vomiting or letting go; Often patients benefit from inserting a finger into the throat and thereby stimulating the stomach, especially if the stomach vomits something bile or sour.

And sometimes the appetite disappears due to great weakness, and then the doctor treats the nature that causes the weakness with already known means. It is necessary to bring appetite-stimulating smells closer to such patients, for example, the smell of oatmeal soaked in cold water or water with vinegar, and also give them juvarishnas intended for those with fever, with a small amount of wine and a decoction of tart, pleasantly smelling fruits, and let them lick off a little vinegar from under caris, that is, caris from fish or kid, or something similar. After the first days of fever, they are given, as you already know, medicinal dressings on the stomach from the juices of the fruits, which also include wormwood and sabur. Rubbing fragrant oils into the stomach area benefits them.