Weil-Known Remedies. Mr. B was ill with a cold, and the doctor who was summoned prescribed old-fashioned remedies, "calomel and quinine internally and nntiphlogisline to be applied externally." It proved very effective and the maid boasted of his quick recovery to one of the neighbors. "And Mrs. B didn't do hardly anything to cure him," she added, "She gave him quinine qui-nine and calumus and covered his chest with alabastine."