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
Ruptures, 36, 97, 100
Salts, Volatile, 64
Salt Rheum, 46, 54, 75, 82, 106
Salve, 42, 59, 68, 96
Sassafras Bark, 26
Sarsaparilla Root, 27
Do Syrup, 88
Scald Head, 54, 62
Scitica, 52
Scoke Root, 30
Scrofula, 26, 27, 30, 33, 35
Scrofulous Sores, 96, 99, 111
Senna, 38
Side, Stitch in, 28
Single-celled Berry, 14
Sinews, Shrunk, 23, 25
Small Pox, 104
Snake Root, black, 19
Do do Canada, 27
Snake Weed, 29
Soap Oil, 96
Sudorific 27, 28, 90
Sore Mouth, 22, 29
Do Eyes, 23
Sores, all kinds, 23, 24, 25, 33, 56, 92, 93
Sorrel Extract, 93
Southern Wood, or Old Man, 17
Spasmodic Affections, 18
Spasms, 49
Spearmint, 19
Spikenard, 34
Sprains and Bruises, 47, 90, 94
Strengthening, 31, 86
Stimulant, 17, 26, 27, 28, 32
Stimulating Embrocation, 80
Stomach, Complaints of, 32
Do Sickness of, 13, 68
Do Soreness of, 24, 39, 41, 49, 82
Do Sour, 50
Do Tincture, 63
Do The, 160
Do Weak, 85
Stone Root, 32
St. Anthony’s Fire, 93, 109
Succory, 19
Summer Savory, 12
Sweat, 24
Sweet Fern, 28, 35
Swellings, 23, 25, 36, 68, 72, 73, 87, 91
Synonyms, 211
Syrup, Alterative, 65
Do Cleansing and Strengthening, 60
Do Flax Seed, 84
Tamarack, 34
Tar Syrup, 97
Tar Water, 60
Teeth, Aching or Decaying, 25
Do Insensible to pain, 64
Testicles, Rupture of, 100
Thoroughwort, (Fevers), 11, 44
Throat, Sore, 41, 109
Tincture, Dewey’s, 80
Tonic, 20, 32, 91
Toothache, 12, 13, 24, 47, 64
Tooth Powder, 91
Thistle, Canada, 44
Tumors, 35
Turnip, Indian, 28, 95, 97
Typhus Fever, 15
Ulcers, 23, 28, 30, 36, 63, 68, 73, 77, 92, 99
Unicorn Root, 29
Urinary Organs, diseases of, 18
Urine, Flow of, 19, 32, 37
Do Incontinency of, 48
Do Regulator of, 21, 31
Do Retention of, 18, 25, 24, 28
Uva Ursa Leaves, 19
Venereal Disease, 27
Vervain, 20
Virgin’s Bower, 26
Viscera, Obstruction of, 20
Do Secretions of, 31
Vomit, 33
Vomiting, 48
Vermifuge, 22, 26, 35
Wash, 31
Water Fennel, 30
Water Trefoil, 33
Waters, Double-distilled, 222
Weakness, 35, 99, 103
Whites, 36, 37
Whooping Cough, 75, 104
Wind, 23
Wine, Currant, 88
Do Elder, 91
Wintergreen, 13
Witlows, 57
Womb, and Appendages, 126
Do Diseases of, 129
Do Derangement of, 35
Do Falling of, 22, 28
Worms, 12, 17, 32, 35, 41, 43, 64, 74, 101
Wormwood, 32
=ERRATA.=--The two line paragraph near top of page 17, should follow
the fourth paragraph on page 16,—“for children, in coughs and
costiveness, &c.,” should be followed by “the above is also very good
for children, &c.”
PREFACE.
MY BELOVED SEX:
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