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
WHOOPING COUGH.--Take a good handful of dry colts-foot leaves, cut
them small and boil them in one quart of spring water to half a pint,
then take it off the fire, and when it is almost cold, strain it clean
through a cloth, squeezing the herbs as dry as you can; then dissolve
in it one ounce of brown sugar candy, finely powdered, and give a child
three or four years old one spoonful, cold or warm, according to the
season, and so in proportion to the age and strength, three or four
times a day (or oftener if the fits of coughing come frequently,) till
well, which will be in two or three days; it will soon abate the fits
of coughing.
RHEUMATISM.--A specific and infallible cure for the most inveterate
Rheumatism of many years standing, has been communicated by a man of
character from the coast of Guinea. He says the negroes of that country
easily remove it in a little time, by rubbing the part affected with
a mixture of cayenne pepper and strong spirits; the rubbing must be
continued for some time, and repeated till the cure is effected; the
pepper must be reduced to powder. Several Americans, most grievously
tormented with this intolerable disorder, have been so effectually
relieved by this happy communication, as not to have the least remains
of it, and with my own experience, I believe it, but would rather
depend on it with the addition of drinking a glass of princes pine,
steeped in good French brandy, morning and evening, for the blood; I do
not doubt of its being an almost certain cure--but remember to guard
against cold and wet.
SORE BREAST.--Take the sprouts of the first year’s growth of bitter
poplar, and scrape off the bark, and the bark of sumack roots, a
handful of each, half a handful of camomile and as much of mullen
leaves; stew in one pound of hog’s fat over a moderate fire, then
strain it clean and add half a gill of good rum; simmer again to the
consumption of the rum, and it is fit for use.
FOR A POULTICE--Take roots and some of the tender leaves of scabious,
pound in a mortar to a salve and spread it on a piece of thin leather;
heat it hot by the fire until it is brown, cover it over with the
before mentioned ointment, and apply to the breast; repeat as often as
you find need.
ULCER.--A tea of white pine bark, elixir salutes and the yolk of an
egg, is good for an inward ulcer that is broke.
BURNS.--Make a poultice of Indian meal and emptyings, to draw out the
fire; when it is out, strew on red precipitate, then apply a plaster
made of hog’s fat, mutton tallow and beeswax; simmer together, take it
off and cool it so as not to curdle the egg, then put in the yolk of an
egg, and stir it till it becomes the consistency of salve.
DISSOLVING STONE IN THE BLADDER.--Take the expressed juice of horse
mint and red onion, one gill of each, every morning and evening, till
the complaint be removed; if the green mint cannot be had, make a
strong decoction of the dry herb.
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