The practical housewife : $b A complete encyclopædia of domestic economy and family medical guidePhilp, Robert Kemp
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The practical housewife : $b A complete encyclopædia of domestic economy and family medical guide
Philp, Robert Kemp
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics; Medicine, Popular
As remedial means, the adult patient should take one of the following
pills three times a day, or one every eight hours, and every second
morning two tea-spoonfuls of Epsom salts dissolved in a tumblerful of
cold water, with a wine-glassful of dandelion-tea every four or five
hours, and continued as long as it is necessary to take the pills.
_Pills._
Take of
Camphor 2 grains.
Powdered Opium 2 grains.
Blue Pill 20 grains.
Mix and divide into six pills.
Take of
Dandelion Roots, washed and cut small 2 ounces.
Liquorice Root and Sassafras, of each 2 drachms.
Boiling Water 1½ pint.
Simmer slowly for twenty minutes; strain, and, when cold, give
a wine-glassful every four or five hours.
When the obstruction has been removed, and the cure has been effected—as
the restoration of the skin and eyes to their natural colour will
indicate—it is sometimes necessary to take a tonic for a few days, to
restore the tone of the stomach; this will be best effected by taking
a table-spoonful of the following mixture an hour before each meal for
four or five days:—Infuse 2 drachms of gentian, 2 drachms of carbonate
of soda, and 1 drachm of ginger for six hours in a pint of boiling
water; and, when cold, giving it in the above doses. To those subject
to jaundice, exercise and sea bathing should be vigorously adopted
after each recovery, so as to work the system into an energetic and
self-supporting condition; for if not excited out of its torpidity, the
body is very prone to relapse into its previous torpidity.
BOWEL COMPLAINTS.
These ailments are in all cases symptoms of the effect of other causes,
and never occur spontaneously, but are the result of indigestive food or
excessive acidity of the stomach, the presence of a large quantity of
bile in the small intestines, acrid and misacting medicines, wet feet or
exposure to cold; the result of disease in the mucous or muscular coats
of the bowels, exposure to miasmata or infectious air, and the inhalation
of noxious gases.
1. _Bowel Complaint, attended with Sickness and Vomiting._
The vomiting should be first allayed by small effervescing
draughts, or wine-glasses of soda-water, with a tea-spoonful
of brandy, given every half hour, and a blister the size of
a crown piece laid on the pit of the stomach: while for the
relief of the bowels the following mixture is to be given in
doses of two table-spoonfuls every hour till the relaxation is
checked.
Prepared Chalk 1 ounce.
Aromatic Powder 2 drachms.
Sugar 1 drachm.
Peppermint Water 8 ounces.
Mix well in a mortar, and add
Tincture of Kino 3 drachms.
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