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 its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.Young, Amelia
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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 its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.
Young, Amelia
Botany, Medical; Materia medica, Vegetable; Medicine, Popular; Women physicians
TO STOP VOMITING.--Bicarbonate of potash one drachm, mint water eight
ounces; give a teaspoonful as occasion may require.
INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.—_Symptoms_: A dull pain in the right side
and top of the shoulder. Tincture of lobelia may be given two or three
times per week.
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.--To produce perspiration take the
following: One ounce spirits nitre, half an ounce balsam copaiva, one
ounce spirits turpentine, half a drachm each of oil of sweet almonds
and gum camphor; give a teaspoonful three or four times a day.
VOMITING OF BLOOD.--Sugar, alum whey; drink a tea made from beth root,
and black cohosh, and use anti-dyspeptic pills to keep the bowels in
order. Also, the restoration cordial; apply strengthening plaster to
the pit of the stomach.
DROPSY OF THE CHEST.--First, take two drachms of digitalis plant,
divide into twelve powders of ten grains each; after this, add fourteen
tablespoonsful of boiling water; take one tablespoonful every hour, or
two every two hours.
2d. 3 grains mandrake, night and morning.
3d. Bathe the stomach and abdomen night and morning with precipitate
ointment.
4th. Drink an infusion of parsley tea.
Let the diet be light and nutritious.
BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.--Dried beef, pulverized, and snuff up the nose.
CRAMP IN THE STOMACH.--Ten drops oil of hemlock; camphor, peppermint,
laudanum, and apply hops to the stomach.
DROPSY.--Take common whortleberries, dried and bruised, four ounces,
and add a small quantity of boiling water. Likewise, mandrake, cream
tartar, peppermint plant, equal parts; of this powder give a large
teaspoonful every few hours until it operates; drink freely of a
decoction made from spearmint, parsley, elder flowers, dandelion roots
and tops; give capsicum pills.
TO RELIEVE SPASM.--Steep angelica seed; for an injection take of this
infusion one pint, to which add one teaspoonful of salt, one gill of
olive oil, one gill of molasses, and one pint of milk.
ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.--Equal parts of butternut and white ash extract;
to one pound of this extract add three ounces of aloes, two ounces of
gamboge, two ounces canker violet, three ounces of American ipecac, two
ounces nerve powder, two or three ounces of poplar bark and cloves;
make into pills of ordinary size; dose, from two to five, to be
increased or diminished as the condition of the patient may require.
COMPOUND MANDRAKE POWDERS.--Mandrake, spearmint, and cream tartar,
equal parts; mix them well; dose, a teaspoonful, in tea or syrup.
Useful in diseases of the liver, dyspepsia, obstructed menses, dropsy,
and every taint of the system. Take the above every other morning; gum
pills to be taken at night.
SOUR STOMACH.--Three parts of pulverized beth root and one of pearlash,
mixed and ground well together; take half a teaspoonful in liquor or
cider--cider is the best. Or, steep bitter root and add princes pine,
pulverized.
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