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
_Directions._--For a grown persen half a teaspoonful of the powder
and add a little loaf sugar, rub them together and add half a pint of
boiling water; drink the tea as hot as you can bear it. There is no
occasion for swallowing the grounds, as is a common practice, for the
strength of the medicine will be extracted by the boiling water, and
the sediment can have no other effect than to clog and irritate the
stomach. When the tea is taken the patient should be in bed with a warm
brick at their feet, or sitting by a fire wrapped in a blanket, to
create perspiration.
FOR A SCALD HEAD.--Take of hops and wood soot, four ounces each, and
three pints of water; boil down to half a pint, then strain and add
four ounces fresh butter; let it simmer till the water is out; use
every day. Or, beef’s gall, dried to the consistence of a salve, spread
on linen, and let it remain for five days; then make use of the soot
ointment.
FOR DEAFNESS.--Take a turnip, wrapped in brown paper, and put it in a
bed of hot ashes; when cooked take it out and squeeze out the juice,
and put it in bottles. Use by putting three drops on a piece of cotton
every other day.
CURE FOR SORE NIPPLES.--Take a large flat turnip, scrape out the heart
of it and put into the hollow half an ounce of beeswax, a gill of train
oil, and a gill of honey; set it on hot ashes for an hour, when you
must pound the turnip and contents until the juice is out. Apply this
to the nipples four times a day, which will surely cure.
EYE WATER.--Take fresh eggs and empty out the contents, leaving in each
shell a little of the white of the egg, put into each shell ten grains
of white vitrol and fill them with rose or rain water; set each shell
in warm ashes to simmer for half an hour; strain the water through a
piece of fine linen, and pour a gill of rose water in it; keep it in a
bottle well corked. This will cure by applying it three or four times a
day, and taking care not to catch cold.
CONSUMPTIVE COMPLAINTS AND INFLAMMATION CAUSED BY COLDS IN
WOUNDS.--Take yellow pond lily root and boil till the strength is out,
then strain and thicken with coarse wheat flour; if yellow lily cannot
be had, use slippery elm or basswood bark. Cattail flag is good to make
a poultice.
STOMACH TINCTURE.--Take one ounce of gentian root, half an ounce of
dried orange peel, one ounce of the inside bark of white pine; put
these into one pint of cogniac brandy, and in four days it will be fit
for use.
FOR PILES.--Canada thistle, simmered in clear lard.
LIME WATER.--Take half a pound of unslacked lime, put it into two
quarts of water, and let it stand twenty-four hours, stirring it two or
three times. Take off the clear water, blow the scum aside, and take
half glass full two or three times a day; if too strong, add water, or
if it heats the stomach take vinegar.
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