Cure for Whooping Cough
Dissolve on ounce of assafoetida in one pint of Jamaican rum. Mix with honey or syrup, and take a teaspoonful after each paroxysm of coughing until three or four have been taken during the day.
Source:, Camden Confederate, August 12, 1862 as found in John Hammond Moore, ed., The Confederate Housewife (Columbia, SC: Summerhouse Press, 1997).
