[Illustration: MADAME YOUNG, M. D.] MADAME YOUNG’S GUIDE TO HEALTH; HER EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS; A TRUE FAMILY HERBAL, WHEREIN IS DISPLAYED THE TRUE PROPERTIES AND MEDICAL VIRTUES OF ALL THE ROOTS, HERBS, &c., INDIGENOUS TO THE UNITED STATES, AND THEIR COMBINATION IN ALL THE DISEASES THE HUMAN BODY IS HEIR TO; ALSO, AN EXPLANATION OF THE HUMAN BODY, ITS LIABILITY TO INJURIES THROUGH IGNORANCE OF US STRUCTURE. DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO HER SEX. ILLUSTRATED WITH DESCRIPTIVE ENGRAVINGS. _I’ll be as happy as my fortune will permit, and make others so, if I can._ ROCHESTER, N.Y.: PRESS OF A. STRONG & CO., DEMOCRAT AND AMERICAN OFFICE. 1858. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858 BY AMELIA YOUNG, In the Clerk’s Office of the Northern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY CHAS. H. M’DONELL, ROCHESTER. N. Y. INDEX. Abdomen, the, 124 Abortion, 131 After Pains, 106 Ague, 23 Angelica, 12 Alder, Black (See Errata below.), 16 Do Dwarf, 24 Alterative, 27 Anti-bilious Physic, 54, 57, 98 Do Pills, 49 Do Female Pills, 59 Appetite, loss of, 12, 32, 101, 104 Do Regular, 17 Asparagus Roots, 89 Asthma, 21, 30, 38, 39, 55, 83, 105 Asthmatic Elixir, 79 Astringent, 31 Avens, 39 Back, pains in the, 18, 28, 34 Do weak, 87 Balmory, or Snakehead, 12 Balsam of Honey, 96 Do Fir, 23 Do of Life, 46 Bathing, 140 Do Anodine Solution, 92 Beer, 86 Do Indian, 60 Beggar Lice, (Nervine), 12 Beth, or Pappoose Root, 28 Bitters, Anti-scorbutic, 55 Bitter Root, 21, 28 Bitter Sweet, 35 Bladder, derangement of, 23, 31, 32 Do Stone in, 77 Bleeding, to stop, 69 Blisters, Butternut for, 41 Blood, cleansing the, 13, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29, 34, 82, 86 Do Root, 95 Do Spitting, 25, 36, 105 Do to warm the, 81, 93 Do Vomiting of, 48 Bloody Flux, 27, 53, 89 Blue Flag, 13 Boils, 56, 57, 68 Bones, broken, 78 Bone Ointment, 95 Bowels, complaints of the, 20, 90 Do Inflammation of, 47 Do Pains in the, 22, 41 Do the, 161 Do to regulate, 63 Do weak, 19, 35 Breast, Cancer in the, 36 Do Pain in the, 85 Do Sore, 23, 76, 82 Bronchites, 30 Bruises, poultice for, 23, 68 Bryony, White, 25 Buckthorn, 32 Burdock Root, 28 Burns or Scalds, 25, 33, 70, 77, 78 Cachexies, 31, 32 Camomile, 33 Cancer, 36, 65, 68, 75, 98, 99 Canker, 22, 30 Carbuncles, 109