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after or too shortly before drinking, a good
strong cathartic, of an immediate nature.
For legitimate nausea,
milk and lime water.
(And see what happens.)
For fruitless nausea,
almost any strongly
effervescent drink, such as sal hepatica, Fruit
• Salts, baking soda in a glass of water strongly
tinctured with lime or lemon juice-these
to
be
sipped while smelling a bottle of ammoniac
smelling salts, or spirits of ammonia.
Ammonia
i~
prescribed in all cases of throb–
bing headache.
It
ste:tdies the heart.
It
is ex- ·
cellent for that
fo: ~n
of katzenjammer in which
the head seems to have been stuffed full of
warm mud, also.
In
fact,
ammonia, inhaled
and imbibed, is a good bet for everything. The
doses are so minute that there is virtually no
chance that it will harm the patient.
The citrates and the other
ites
and
ates
which
are commonly recommended are fine things to
let alone, unless you or your physician knows
what you are doing.
Always take cheer from the thought that if
you are healthy enough to suffer acutely, you
will probably live.
Lots of rot is talked about remedies.
If
some
of these don't cure you, there is nothing left
except Blowing the Brain Out or
De
Consola–
tione Philosophit:e.
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