The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
Take of senna, 2 lbs.
rhubarb shavings, 2 lbs.
jalap root, 1 lb.
caraway seeds, 1 lb.
aniseeds, 2 lbs.
sugar, 4 lbs.
shavings of red sanders wood, ½ lb.
Digest these in 10 gallons of spirit of wine, for 14 days,
and strain for use. This elixir possesses almost the same
qualities as the _Compound Tincture of Senna_. The above
quantities may be reduced to as small a scale as may be
required.
GODFREY’S CORDIAL.
Dissolve ½ an oz. of opium,
1 dram of oil of sassafras, in
2 ounces of spirit of wine.
Now mix 4 lbs. of treacle, with
1 gallon of boiling water, and when cold, mix both
solutions.
This is generally used to soothe the _pains of children_, &c.
BALSAM OF HONEY.
Take of balsam of tolu, 2 oz.
gum storax, 2 drams,
opium, 2 do.
honey, 8 oz.
Dissolve these in a quart of spirit of wine.
This balsam is useful in allaying the irritation of _cough_.
Dose, 1 or 2 tea-spoonsful in a little tea, or warm water.
TINCTURE OF THE BALSAM OF TOLU.
Take of balsam of Tolu, 1 oz.
alcohol, 1 pint.
Digest until the balsam be dissolved, and then strain the
tincture through paper.
This solution of the balsam of Tolu possesses all the virtues
of the balsam itself. It may be taken internally, with the
several intentions for which that balsam is proper, to the
quantity of a tea-spoonful or two, in any convenient vehicle.
Mixed with simple syrup, it forms an agreeable balsamic syrup.
TINCTURE OF PERUVIAN BARK.
Take of Peruvian bark, 4 oz.
proof spirit, 2 pints.
Digest for 10 days, and strain.
It may be given from a tea-spoonful to ½ an ounce, or an
ounce, according to the different purposes it is intended to
answer.
HUXHAM’S TINCTURE OF BARK.
Take of Peruvian bark, powdered, 2 oz.
the peel of Seville oranges, dried, 1½ do.
Virginian snake root, bruised, 3 drams,
saffron, 1 do.
cochineal, powdered, 2 scruples,
proof spirit, 20 oz.
Digest for 14 days, and strain.
As a _corroborant_ and _stomachic_, it is given in doses
of two or three drams; but when employed for the cure of
_intermittent fevers_, it must be taken to a greater extent.
TINCTURE OF GUAIACUM.
Take of guaiacum, 4 oz.
rectified spirit of wine, 2 pints.
Digest for seven days, and filter.
This solution is a powerful stimulating sudorific, and may
be given in doses, of about ½ an ounce, in _rheumatic and
asthmatic cases_.
AMMONIATED TINCTURE OF GUAIACUM.
Take of resin of guaiacum, in powder, 4 oz.
ammoniated alcohol, in powder, 1½ lb.
Digest for seven days, and filter through paper.
In _rheumatic cases_, a tea, or even table-spoonful, taken
every morning and evening, in any convenient vehicle,
particularly in milk, has proved of singular service.
FRIAR’S BALSAM.
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