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
ACID COUGH DROPS.--One pound sumach berries, four ounces elecampane,
one ounce skunk cabbage, half an ounce blood root, one ounce cayenne,
boil in one gallon of vinegar, and when the strength is out add three
pounds of honey. Use this syrup as the judgment of the patient, or the
occasion, may require. To be taken in asthma, quinsy, whooping cough,
common colds, sore throat, canker in the throat and stomach, catarrh,
and any other difficulty in the head or throat caused by colds.
_Directions._--Take from one teaspoonful to a tablespoonful several
times a day; children, or grown persons, troubled with any kind of a
cough should take it whenever the cough is severe, by day or night.
Children may take half the quantity given to adults. This has cured
when all other remedies have failed.
MEASURES.--Tea-cupful, four fluid ounces, or a gill.
Wine glass, two fluid ounces.
Tablespoonful, half a fluid ounce.
Teaspoonful, one fluid drachm.
VEGETABLE OINTMENT.--To one gallon neatsfoot oil add one pound of
bitter sweet root, (dried and pounded fine,) half a pound of camomile
flowers, pounded fine, half a pound of wormwood, pounded, one ounce of
cayenne pepper, one quart brandy; add two ounces spirits turpentine to
each pound. To be used outwardly for callouses, swellings, bruises,
tightness of the sinews, stiffness of joints, &c.
VEGETABLE COUGH POWDERS.--Hoarhound, pulverized, four ounces; lobelia,
one ounce; fire herb, one ounce; cayenne, two ounces; elecampane, two
ounces; skunk cabbage and ladies’ slipper, one ounce; thoroughwort,
pulverized, one ounce; mix in molasses. Take a teaspoonful morning,
noon and at bed time, or at any time the cough is troublesome.
INFLAMMATIONS, FELLONS AND FEVER SORES.--Take of catnip, hearts of
mullens, wormwood, mayweed and double tanzy, each two double-handsful;
boil them in six quarts of water with one pint of soft soap, till the
strength is out, then steam the parts affected, and cover close with
a blanket for fifteen or twenty minutes. Immediately afterwards bathe
the parts with the following: half a gill of spirits, half an ounce of
gum camphor, a tablespoonful of laudanum, the marrow of three hogs’
jaws, simmer together; rub the swelling downward, and apply a poultice,
for which take of dandelion roots, hearts of mullens, catnip, each
one handful, boil in milk and thicken with flour; after the swelling
breaks, apply a salve made of one handful English clover, a lump of
rosin as big as a walnut, half a pound sheeps’ tallow, one handful
bitter sweet berries, stewed over a slow fire; apply the salve two
days. To cleanse the sore of proud flesh, use a salve made of equal
parts of charcoal, loaf sugar, and red precipitate, pulverized.
EXTREME CASES OF RELAX.--Beeswax, mutton tallow and molasses, equal
parts of each; melt these together, and while warm give a child a
teaspoonful three times a day, a grown person a tablespoonful.
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