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
GOUT.--One quart beefs’ gall, one gallon gin, one gallon molasses; take
a wine glass full in the morning, half an hour before eating, and the
same at bed time.
ANTI-EMETIC DROPS.--Take a cup of cider vinegar and add a teaspoonful
each of fine salt and cayenne pepper, put them into a bottle and shake
well. Take from a half to a whole teaspoonful of the mixture and put it
into a cup full of cold water; take a tablespoonful until the vomiting
ceases. This has cured in all cases. I have known this to stop vomiting
when four of the most skilful physicians had failed. This should be
kept in every body’s house; it is a good wash for poison, the bite of
bees, and is good to bathe all pains.
FAMILY VEGETABLE PILLS.--One pound fine poplar bark, one pound sweet
bugle, one pound thoroughwort, eight ounces wormwood, boil them as
thick as molasses, and add two ounces cayenne pepper, two ounces golden
seal, two ounces bitter root, two ounces extract butternut, one ounce
lobelia, two ounces aloes; you may have all these made into a fine
powder and mix with molasses. Take three to seven every night on going
to bed. They are good to remove costiveness, headache, pains in the
stomach and bowels, to help the digestion, and to remove wind from the
stomach and bowels. Children may take half the quantity.
SCIATICA, OR HIP JOINT GOUT.--Take one pint linseed oil, half pound
red lead, four ounces white lead, put these into an earthen vessel,
and simmer over a slow fire, stirring it constantly. Apply this to the
joints, and in case of toothache apply a little in the joints of the
jaw and under the ear.
FAMILY PHYSIC.--Take mandrake root and butternut bark, each half a
pound, boil them in half gallon water to one pint, to which add one
pint old Jamaica rum, and one pint molasses; one tablespoonful to a
grown person, and a teaspoonful for a child.
MOTHER’S RELIEF.--Take two pounds of partridge berry vine, half pound
high cranberry or cramp bark, half an ounce unicorn root, quarter of
a pound of blue cohosh or pappoose root, one pound each of flax seed
and red raspberry leaves; let as many as possible of these articles be
green, and all well pulverized; boil them in three gallons of water two
hours, and then strain off and continue to simmer till reduced to a
gallon and a half, then add four pounds of loaf sugar and half a gallon
of good Holland gin.
_Directions._--Take half a wine glass of this three times a day, for
several weeks before confinement. It will invigorate the constitution,
the mother will pass the time with little danger, and will be less
liable to take cold _after_ confinement. This medicine should be taken
by every mother. Use, also, occasionally, a drink made from a handfull
of slippery elm, boiled in a quart of water.
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