IPECACUANHA

is a drug much used to loosen a tight cough. Dover's powder 4 ®& preparation cften used, containing opium as well as ipecacuanha. The dose of this powder for an adult is ten grains, and one dose may be taken at night at the onset of a cold in the head or on the chest, but must never be given to children. Ipecacuanha wine contains no opium, and may be given at = age. The usual dose for an adult is ten drops in a little water every four hours; and for an infant three drops in 3 poangoctte) of water every three hours. One tablespoonful of the wine for a child and two for an adult is an emetic which acts about twenty minutes after it is taken, and is thus not sufficiently prompt in cases of poisoning, though uscfal to empty an overloaded stomach after an indigestible meal. [s. 379]