When the child is seized with cough or defluxion, recourse is to be had
to a linctus of honey. It is first to be bathed copiously with warm
water, even to its head, and plenty of honey given: then press its tongue
gently with your finger, and it will vomit up much phlegm.
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COMMENTARY. See Oribasius (Synops. v, 7), and Aëtius (iv, 18.) Aëtius
recommends various lohochs or linctus. One of them consists of pine-nuts,
almonds, linseed, liquorice-juice, and honey.
Emetics and demulcents, such as gum arabic and liquorice, are the
remedies recommended by Avicenna, (i, 3, 1.)
Haly Abbas approves of lohochs, containing almonds, honey, &c. (Pract.
i, 20.) Alsaharavius recommends various demulcents, and an electuary
containing poppy-seed, tragacanth, and the seeds of citrons, to be taken
in a decoction of Sebesten plums. He also directs us to produce vomiting,
by making the patient swallow copious draughts of honied water. (Tr.
xxvi, 24.)