Sufferers from asthma should get a muskrat skin and wear it over their
lungs with the fur side next to the body. It will bring certain
relief.
Or soak blotting paper in saltpetre water, then dry, burning at night
in the patient's bedroom.
Another excellent recipe: Take powdered liquorice root, powdered
elecampane root, powdered anise-seed, each one drachm, powdered ipecac
ten grains, powdered lobelia ten grains; add sufficient amount of tar
to form into pills of ordinary size. Take three or four pills on going
to bed. An excellent remedy for asthma or shortness of breath.