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I was favoured with yours yesterday concerning Mrs Grieve.
If there has been no application of cold to account for the
present cough, wc application is often unheeded & unobserved
I shall think the coming of the cough a bad appearance.
However that may be, the bleeding blistering & demulcents
were the most promising remedies. I have only to say that
till this cough & frequency of pulse are much gone I would lay
aside the guaiacum & Mezereon & every heating thing. ––

But I doubt if the opiate is to be reckoned among these unless
from particular experience you find it to be so –– In the mean
time the opiate by quiting the Cough & giving sleep will do
more service than it can do harm by irritation. Go on with
your demulcent course both in medicine & diet, & I have
only to advise four ounces of the juice of Tussilago leaves
fresh expressed to be taken every day, one half in the morng
the other in the Eveng. – If more agreeable a little sugar
may be put to every dose, & if she pleases she may
take the juice by two table spoonfulls at a time.
I have found this remedy of service in the care of tubercles
–– The Tartar emetic may be continued but no
farther than to keep the belly regular. ––––