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. — John Shaqi
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 REGULATE THE BOWELS.--Take one teaspoonful of castile soap before
breakfast, and one teaspoonful after breakfast, for three days, then
take gentian bitters.
HOARSENESS.--Nettle roots, powdered fine, and mixed with an equal
quantity of molasses; take one tablespoonful night and morning.
INFLAMMATION IN THE EYES.--Put half an ounce of quicksilver in three
pints of water, and boil to one pint; then bottle it; make a poultice
of this with Indian meal, and apply under the chin; renew it when too
dry.
FOR A COUGH.--Take equal parts of moss taken from white oak, white
maple and white ash; make a strong tea, and sweeten with honey; this
will generally cure. Take half a wine glass full three times a day, and
in the night if required.
Another: Smartweed, pulverized fine, mixed with an equal quantity of
molasses; take a teaspoonful three times a day.
FOR A FELLON.--Take rock salt, rolled in a cabbage leaf and pulverized,
two ounces spirits turpentine; mix and apply.
VOLATILE SALTS.--Take one ounce sal amoniac, two ounces pearlash;
powder them separately, then mix together, and moisten with the essence
of cinnamon, or spirits of any kind; put it into a bottle and keep well
corked. This is good to apply to the nose in case of faintness.
TOOTHACHE DROPS.--Take wild celendine root in powder, or wet a piece of
lint with the juice, and apply it to the tooth.
FOR WORMS.--Take dry cobbs and burn them and make a powder; boil them
in soft water till the strength is out; strain off the ley, and boil
down very strong; give the patient a teaspoonful once an hour for three
or four hours. This is very good for worms. Or make a strong tea of
sumach berries of which drink a wine glass full. This will do when the
patient is first attacked.
BATHING FOR ALL PAINS.--Take three ounces of the oil of lavender, three
ounces sulphuric ether, one ounce of alcohol, two drachms of laudanum;
mix well together, and rub the afflicted part with a piece of flannel
wet with the mixture; sit by a fire and keep it warm, before going to
bed.
OX GALL--Is good for the gout. Bathe the parts affected with the gall
and warm it in with a hot shovel or brick. It will give prompt relief.
TO RENDER TEETH INSENSIBLE TO PAIN.--Diseased teeth have been rendered
insensible to pain by a cement composed of Canada balsam and slacked
lime, which is to be inserted in the hollow, or cavity, of the tooth;
it will relieve instantly.
A CANCER UNDER THE EYE--Was cured by drinking one quart of tar water
daily, and applying a plaster of tar and mutton tallow melted together;
this cured a cancer in two months, and of twenty years standing. Or
mix black pepper, burned alum and honey, equal parts, and use it as an
ointment.
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