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
A NEWLY DISCOVERED CURE FOR A POLYPUS.--An elderly lady applied to
me for advice, who had been afflicted for a long time with a fleshy
excresence, which filled up the passage of her nose. By using the
following simple prescription a cure was performed in a few days: Take
half an ounce of blood root, finely pulverized and sifted, and one
drachm of camomile; mix them together for a sternutatory. A small pinch
of this powder is to be snuffed up the nostrils for the polypus of
the nose, three times a day. The following wash, or lotion, is to be
thrown up the nostrils with a syringe twice a day, until the polypus is
removed: Dissolve half an ounce of powdered alum in a gill of brandy,
and shake the vial until the alum is dissolved. This is a tried, safe
and sure cure for polypus of the nose without the use of instruments,
which subjects the patient to extreme pain and is often very dangerous.
ELIXIR PRO.--Take one quart of good spirits, to which add two ounces
myrrh; let it stand in the sun four days, then add half an ounce of
aloes, one ounce of saffron, and let it stand two days.
ALTERATIVE SYRUP.--Take two pounds sarsaparilla, one pound guaiacum,
eleven ounces sassafras, eleven ounces alder flowers; boil together in
three quarts of water, pour off, add one pint and a half of spirits and
five pounds of sugar. Drink a wine glass full three times a day.
FOR A COUGH.--Take two heads of garlic, a lemon sliced, four ounces
licorice, half a pint of liquor, four ounces flax seed, three pints of
water, boil down to one quart, and strain; take a tea cup full on going
to bed.
RECIPE FOR A COLD.--Take a large teaspoonful of linseed with two penny
worth of stick licorice, and a quarter of a pound of sun raisins. Put
them in two quarts of soft water; add to it a quarter of a pound of
brown sugar candy, powdered and a tablespoonful of white wine vinegar,
or lemon juice.
_Note._--The vinegar is to be added only to the quantity you are going
immediately to take; for if it be put into the whole, it is liable, in
a little time, to grow flat. Drink half a pint on going to bed, and
take a little when the cough is troublesome.
This recipe generally cures the worst of colds, in one or two days;
and, if taken in time, may be said to be almost an infallible remedy.
It is a sovereign balsamic cordial for the lungs, without the opening
qualities which endanger fresh colds in going out. It has been known to
cure colds which have almost been settled into consumptions, in less
than three weeks.
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