,4M;-' v.-. «H^^ 1 ° XSiSi-'H .. •K:K38- -^ 21 Lobelia, finely pulverized, 1 oz. of the African cayenne, 2 oz. of bitter-root, 2 oz. of nerve powders, or Valerian, 4 oz. of skunk cabbage, 2 oz. of bayberry bark, 2 oz. of hoar- hound ; take one or two pills every night. These pills are very excellent in the asthma and phthisic, and also for a cough. They may be made with honey or molasses. Hygean Pills—Take castile or common bar soap one part, colocynth one part, gamboge one part, aloes one part. Three or four of the size of a pea are a dose. These pills operate very similar to the celebrated Morrison's Hygean Pills. Physical Powders—Take jalap one part, spearmint or peppermint one part, and senna two parts; pulverize them separately, and mix them well together. A heaping tea- spoonful is a common dose, put into a gill of hot water, and sweetened. It operates well for children ; they will drink it without difficulty, as it is pleasant to the taste. Ointment—Take equal parts of yellow root or gold thread, and common elder bark, and simmer them in hog's lard. No family should be without this oincment. It is good in chapped hands, chilblains, burns and scalds, sore nipples and lips. Kitteridge's Ointment—Take equal parts of neats-foot oil, best French brandy, and spirits of turpentine; mix and it is fit for use. Good in sprains and bruises. Dyspepsy—Take one ounce of best Turkey rhubarb, boil it a few minutes in one pint of water, and then add one pint of best French brandy. Dose, two-thirds of a wine glass three times a day. This has cured where every other med- icine has failed. Warts—Make a little roll of spider's web, lay it on the wart, set it on fire, and let it burn down on the wart. This is said to be a certain cure. Whites—Take white oak bark, boil it down strong, and add an equal quantity of best French brandy; bathe fre- quently the small of the back; take something warm in- variably before bathing, to defend the stomach, say a little 22 peppermint, snake root, or vegetable powders. I have known this medicine to give immediate relief; it is also good in any external pain or weakness. Canker—Make a tea of equal parts of hemlock bark, the inside, sumac bark or berries, raspberry leaves, and bayberry bark, which may be drank at liberty. Piles—A gentleman informed me that he had had the piles extremely bad: he had tried every remedy in his knowledge, without receiving benefit, and at last made use of injections of tar, from a tea-spoonful to a great spoonful at a time, for a number of times, and effected an immediate cure; he had recommended it to many others and it cured them also. Tar water will often cure this disease. Night Sweats—Drink plentifully of cold sage tea; this is almost an infallibly remedy. Cholera Morbus—Drink plentifully of wormword tea. It rarely fails of effecting a cure. Croup—Place a piece of sponge, or a number of thick- nesses of flannel, wet in hot water, over the wind-pipe, or the part affected, as hot as the patient can bear ; change it as soon as it cools a little, and continue till the symptoms subside. If the sponge or flannel be applied so hot as to start the skin, it will do no harm. A gentleman informed me a short time since that he succeeded in curing a child of his by this application, that was attacked more violently than one he lost a short time before of the same disorder. Nutritious Drink for the Sick—Take a handful of Eng- lish barley, a piece of gum Arabic as large as a walnut, with a little slippery elm; pour boiling water upon it, steep it a little, and add a little salt and loaf sugar with nutmeg. This I have found to be excellent where the patient had not much appetite, and could not bear solid food, to keep up the strength of the patient. Injections—Take of strong catnip tea, a common tumbler full, of fine salt a tea-spoonful, sweet oil a great spoonful or the same quantity of hog's lard, two great spoonsful of molasses : inject, and keep it up from fifteen to twenty-five 23 minutes. This injection will remove slime and jelly matter from the intestines that physic many times will not reach, and remove pain and swelling in the bowels of children as well as adults; good in case of worms and spasmodic cases. Inflammation—Make a strong tea of wild cherry-tree bark and bathe the part inflamed. A lady informed me that she saved a man's arm after the surgeons had met to amputate it, by bathing it with this wash. Bleeding at the Lungs—Take one ounce of the dried root of yellowdock, and boil it in a pint of milk; take a tea-cup full at a time two or three times a day. Poultices, made of rye-meal and vinegar, with a great spoonful of mustard-seed pounded up, and spread on the surface, will answer the purpose of blisters, and may be used in their stead; they are not attended with that danger that blisters are. Rheumatism—Take a handful of blue flag root, put it into a pint of spirits, and let it stand a few days ; take a tea spoonful three times a day to begin with, and increase the dose by degrees to a great spoonful three times a day. I obtained this receipt by way of the Oneida Indians ; it is a favorite medicine with them ; the bowels should be kept open. The Lobelia emetic and steaming is the most effec- tual in this disease. See Lobelia in this pamphlet. Cough—Let the patient drink freely of Life Everlasting made into a tea, sweetened with molasses, and occasionally a little liquorice and slippery elm. I have tried many pre- scriptions for a cough, and have found none so efficacious as the above. I have succeeded in breaking up the most vio- lent cough in forty-eight hours, with this prescription. Elixir or Hot Drops, is made by adding three-fourths of a pound of best gum myrrh,pulverized, and one ounce of African cayenne, to one gallon of alcohol, or fourth-proof brandy. It may be taken from a tea-spoonful to a great spoonful in water sweetened with molasses or sugar. Good internally in coughs and colds, debilitated state of the system, pain in the stomach and bowels. We make the most use of it ap- plied externally for the rheumatism, pains or inflammations 24 of any kind, headache, toothache, cramp, cold feet, &c. For bathing, the gum may be omitted and more cayenne added. Vegetable Powders, or Composition—Take one pound of fine bayberry bark, eight ounces of ginger, three ounces of common cayenne, and mix them well together. Dose, a tea spoonful put into a cup two-thirds full of boiling water, sweeten it and add a great spoonful or two of milk ; in case of a cold or cholic, a tea spoonful or two of the Elixir may be added. This medicine is good in almost all diseases, colds, coughs, cholic, dysentery, sickness at the stomach, want of appetite, and pain in the stomach. Where there is a costive habit, equal part of rhubarb may be used. It often produces vomiting; in such cases it always has a good effect. On going to bed is the best time to take it. It may be taken at any other time, but the patient should keep in the house for ^ a half an hour after taking it, to prevent taking cold. Rheumatic Plaster—-Take equal parts of common rosin and sulphur, say one pound each, melt them by a slow fire, then add two ounces of African cayenne pulverized, one ounce of camphor, and stir it till it is well mixed, then tem- per it to the consistency of shoemaker's wax with sunfish oil; if this cannot be had, use neatsfoot oil. Compound Elixir—Is made by adding to the elixir, as above, say for a quart two ounces of African cayenne, an ounce of the oil of hemlock, an ounce of the oil of spear- mint, three ounces of camphor, and half an ounce of opium. This preparation is only designed for external application, for the toothache, headache, all external inflammations, and pain and tightness of the chest. Bard's Opodeldoc—Take Venetian soap two ounces, cam- phor gum one ounce, brandy one pint. The soap is to be dissolved in the brandy by a slow heat, and after its solution the camphor is to be added. Harlam OH—Take balsam of sulphur two parts, spirits of turpentine one part. I have found this compound to be one of the best remedies to bathe for the rheumatism. British Oil—Take sulphurated oil one ounce, oil of pe« 25 troleum or rock oil half an ounce, purified oil of amber two drachms, oil of turpentine four ounces; mix. Dose, from fifteen to twenty drops, morning and evening. Alterative Syrup, to purify the blood, fpr weakly, con- sumptive complaints. Take three pounds of sarsaparilla, either the common or imported, two pounds of lignumvitse boring, or sawdust, if the boring may not be obtained—it can be found at the pump and block makers ; sassafras root half a pound ; elder flowers, one pound; burdock seeds, one pound : Boil all these together for four hours, fill up in the time -if necessary : strain and boil down to six quarts or thereabouts. A less quantity or more may be made at a time, by adding or diminishing the quantity of roots. If you design to keep this syrup, three quarters of a pound of clarified sugar or loaf sugar should be added to every quart of the liquor, and a glass of alcohol. If you make but a small quantity and use it up before it sours, it may be made palatable with a little molasses. This syrup is good in the venereal disease, rheumatism, chronic, inflammation of the liver, scrofula in all its different shapes, in ulcers, cutaneous diseases, or diseases of the skin, white swellings, rickets, and salt rheum. If all of the above articles cannot be con- veniently obtained, a part may be omitted. Chilblains—Common copal varnish will be found a most efficacious remedy for this difficulty, by applying it to the part affected. Dropsy—Keep the bowels open with the physical pow- ders; give the lobelia emetic two or three times a week, to- gether with the vapor bath. In this disease, produce a vapor by burning spirits and conducting the vapor under the bed- clothes, as described under the article Lobelia, in this work. Follow this treatment till a cure is effected. I have cured a bad case of the dropsy in less than a fortnight by this process. If the dropsy be recent, each time the patient goes through this treatment he will find relief, but if it be of long standing it sometimes requires a number of courses of the emetic and vapor bath, to produce an alteration, sometimes three or four. The patient should remain in this vapor bath nearly an hour; between administering the vapor bath and the 26 emetic, give an injection of tea of pennyroyal; put in a tea- spoonful of lobelia, and nearly the same quantity of com- mon cayenne, strain it and inject. By this treatment I succeeded in effecting a complete and radical cure of the case of dropsy in my wife, in less than a fortnight: her feet and ancles and body were so bloated that one could not feel the spine or ancle bone by pressing the finger on it, nor could she get on her stocking. She took a journey of three hundred miles alone, except with an infant of six weeks old, in five weeks from the time she was the worst, and returned in better health than when she started. Fever in Children—If the child be taken towards night with short breath, heat and dryness of the skin, cut some slices of onions, heat them through, and put one at the bot- tom of each foot; cover warm in bed, and in the morning there will be a moisture on the skin, and the breathing will generally be relieved ; if it should not, give the lobelia tinc- ture. Worms—Give to a child from two to three years old an ounce of the juice of onions; after half an hour, give a por- tion of the physical powders; in some cases the lobelia will be found serviceable. This treatment I have found success- ful. Fever and Ague—The first thing to be attended to is to give a thorough lobelia emetic after warming the patient by giving the vegetable powders a number of times and placing the patient warm in bed ; place a hot stone at the feet, and a number about the body, after quenching them in vine- gar. This treatment should be begun a little before the cold stage commences, if possible, to overcome the cold stage ; if the cold stage is cured, the hot stage will cease. In this disease it will be necessary to take more care than usual to warm the patient, to prevent the cold stage from appearing; cayenne should be added to the vegetable powders, and a greater quantity than usual given with the emetic. If this does not break up the fits, repeat it once in two or three days, until the symptoms have completely subsided ; give no tonics till, the stomach is completely cleansed ; after the stomach is cleansed, the following tonic may be given: Peru- vian bark 1 ounce, Virginia snake root 1 ounce, orange peel 1 ounce, thoroughwort 1 ounce, white oak bark 1 ounce : 27 put these into a quart of best Holland gin : take from half to two-thirds of a wine glass two or three times a day, before the hot stage comes on. It may be taken as a preventive, and also the vegetable powders. Sulphate of quinine 12 grains, wine 2\ pints, may be taken at liberty. A fire should be built morning and even- ing during the wet seasons, as a preventive ; it deprives the air of its unhealthy moisture. Directions to Mothers—Great care should be taken to keep children warm, particularly the feet and hands, as cold extremities produce most of the pains that children suffer till they are three months old. Teething—It is estimated that one out of ten infants die of teething. This disease often produces fits or spasms, loaseness, fever, vomiting, &c. I have never failed of re- moving these symptoms by the tincture of lobelia. We have used it with seven of our own children, as well as many others, with complete success. Portion, from one to three tea spoonsful of the tincture, a tea spoonful at a time, once in ten minutes ; feed it between giving the emetic with herb tea. If the child be costive or feverish, give oil after the emetic. This tincture is made by pulverizing the herb, add warm water, and let it stand a while, strain through a cloth, and sweeten. Corrector—Take equal parts of rhubarb, salseratus, pep- permint, and cinnamon, all pulverized, each a tea-spoonful; add half a pint of hot water, and sufficient loaf-sugar to sweeten it, when cool, if it be convenient, add two great spoonsful of best French brandy: for a child a year old, a table spoonful once an hour. This rarely fails of curing in diarrhoea and dysentery. If pain still continues, ten or fif- teen drops of laudanum, in a little water, will remove it. Dyspeptic Bitters—Take four ounces of golden seal, two ounces of bitter-root, four ounces of poplar bark, four ounces of peach-meats ; add two quarts of water, and two quarts of gin. Good in dyspepsy, weakness of the stomach, &c. If taken after eating, it will prevent the food from producing distress. Dose, two-thirds of a wine-glass before eating. Common Bitters—Take six pounds of bayberry root, one 28 pound of wormwood, and one of double tansy; boil till the strength is out; add molasses, and it is fit for use. Mother's Cordial—Take black snake root, called by the Indians, Squaw root, half a pound, pour three pints of boil- ing water upon it; let it steep by a gentle heat for four or five hours, making about a quart; add two tea spoonsful of the flour of slippery elm, to keep it from souring, and add a pound of loaf sugar. For heartburn and sickness at the stomach, take a tumbler full in the course of the day. The patient may act his pleasure about adding sugar; be partic- ular to add boiling water, as it will give a more pleasant taste. For sickness at the stomach and heartburn usually attendant on pregnant women, it is invaluable. Where per- sons are apt to throw up their food, it is a preventative. It is good against a gnawing, sinking feeling at the stomach. Cough Powders—Take lobelia one tea-spoonful, flour of slippery elm two, skunk cabbage six, blood root one, cay- enne one, wakerobin three, elecampane three, bitter root two, mix them all together, and pass the mass through a fine sieve. Dose, from a half to a tea-spoonful two or three times a day. If all the above articles cannot be obtained, some of them may be omitted. Turlington's Balsam of Life—Take of balsam of Peru half an ounce, balsam Tolu one ounce, gum storax one ounce, gum guaiacum one ounce, gum benzoin an ounce and a half, hepatic aloes and frankincense each two drachms, and dragon's blood one ounce. Let the gums be bruised and put the ingredients into a quart of proof brandy; put it in a warm place, and let it be shaken often for a few days, and it is fit for use. Dose, from twenty to thirty drops, internally, to remove coughs asth- mas, and other complaints of the breast. It is used exter- nally to heal recent wounds or bruises. Catarrh Snuff—Take ten parts of blood root, five of skunk cabbage, two of lobelia, three of snakeroot, six of the flour of slippery elm, and one part of African cayenne. All these should be made fine, well mixed, and run through a sieve. I have found this very efficacious in catarrh and diseases in the head. Dose, a pinch may be taken a number of times a day. 29 Expectorant Tincture—Take one part of blood root, one part of lobelia, three of skunk cabbage, two of white root or pleurisy root, pulverize, and add spirits. Dose, from one tea-spoonful to a table spoonful. Good against cough and lung complaints. Essences—Add one ounce of oil to one pint of alcohol, either peppermint or hemlock, or whatever kind of essence you wish to make. An ounce of oil to a pint of alcohol is about a right proportion. A tea-spoonful is a common dose. Venereal—Take equal parts of blue flag root and garget, one ounce each ; and one pint of the best Holland gin, and let it stand one week ; take two tea-spoonsful at a time, three times a day, and increase it by degrees to a great spoonful at a time. This medicine will be found serviceable in all humors as well as the venereal taint. SCARLET FEVER, OR CANKERRASH. There is perhaps no disease so much dreaded in a family, especially of children, as this. It often leaves parents child- less ; and yet it is more easily managed if taken in season: hence the importance of immediate attention. It is impor- tant that parents should be acquainted with its symptoms, and know what remedies to apply at its first appearance. The following treatment is from the experience of the author, and the most distinguished and successful practition- ers in different parts of the country, with whom he has consulted. If the disease is prevalent, families should have medicines at hand, that they may administer before a phy- sician could be called. Scarlet Fever, or Cankerrash, is induced by the atmo- sphere being highly impregnated with a poison, or miasma, coming in contact vvith persons whose temperaments and constitutions are favorable to the production of this disease. It attacks children of a nervous temperament, of quick, active turn ; persons of fine texture, hardy and robust, are less liable to be affected. Scarlet Fever is so called from its scarlet color, resembling wine. It occurs at all seasons of the year, but more gener- ally in the spring, fall and winter. It is almost entirely con- #3 80 fined to children and youth, although there are some ex- ceptions. A person rarely has it a second time. This dis- ease assumes three forms : the first, its most simple state ; the second, when the throat is affected; and third, when it assumes a putrid type. The scarlet fever commences with cold chills, and often vomiting, pain in the head, accelerated pulse, eyes red and eyelids swollen—in two or three days the flesh begins to swell, an eruption appears on the body like a red stain or blotch, of fiery redness. This disease may be distinguished, says Dr. Beach, from the measles, by its fiery redness, and from its being dispersed over the whole body. When the disease shows itself by vomiting, follow up this indication of nature to rid herself of the disease, by giving a thorough emetic. The lobelia emetic, as laid down on page 15, may be administered—endeavor to produce perspiration in the course of the emetic—immediately after the operation of the emetic, give physic until a thorough evacuation is produced. If the patient is not attacked with vomiting, commence immediately with physic. The physical powders, as laid down on page 21 of this work, perhaps are as good as any combination, and as agreeable to children. It often requires more physic than in ordinary cases, but the quan- tity should not be increased, that is, of a dose, but the dose should be repeated once in two hours until a thorough opera- tion is produced, then wait a sufficient time and repeat the operation, unless the attack be very light. The principal de- pendence in eradicating this disease, in any stage of it, is by physic. It seems to be the most simple way of draining off the disease. Emetics, if often repeated, have a tendency to increase the difficulty in the throat and glands. If the neck is swollen, bathe it with spirits, keep it cool, and bind nothing about it, as is customary. While the fever is on, there is no danger of taking cold; let the patient consult his own feelings in regard to how many clothes he shall keep on. Put the patient into a warm bath repeatedly. When the surface is hot, bathe it frequently with weak ley, or alcohol. Dr. Payson, of New Bedford, who has been very success- ful in this disease, informed me that he was once called to a child when it had been given up, and was apparently almost 31 gone; he fed it all night by turns with physic, with a tea spoon, until he produced thorough evacuation ; in the morn- ing the child was comfortable, and recovered. If the physical powders be not at hand, a physic made of salts, senna, jalap and rhubarb, may be given in its stead. Dyspepsy and Livef Complaint—The best remedy that I am acquainted with is mustard seed and molasses; take an even great spoonful three mornings in succession and miss three-; the number of doses left discretionary. Dr. Beach's Diaphoretic Powders. Take of gum opium half a drachm, camphor two drachms, pulverized ipecacuanha one drachm, cream of tartar one ounce; pulverize all separately, and then-mix. Dose, ten grains as often as may be necessary. This powder allays parn and restlessness, and produces sleep; it produces mois- ture upon the surface without increasing the heat of the body. It is beneficially administered in diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera morbus, and useful in rheumatism, gout and cholera. Sudorific Powders, by Dr. Beach. Take ipecacuanha, saffron, camphor,Virginia snake root, and opium, two ounces of each; Holland ginor Jamaica spirits three quarts. Let it stand two weeks. Dose, one tea-spoonful given in a tea-cup full of catnip tea every hour till it produces perspiration. 32 SICK HEADACHE. Few persons are troubled with this difficulty, who abstain from tea and coffee, and eat but little meat. Persons afflicted with this disease should eat meat not more than once a day, and then but little, and let that be lean. Let your food be mostly vegetable. Tea and coffee are both pernicious to the human system, as an aliment. SCALD HEAD: or, SORE HEAD. SORE EARS, MOUTH AND ETES. Let the patient take two or three teaspoonsful of the tincture of lobelia, one teaspoonful at a time, once in ten minutes. Let him do this three mornings in succession ; skip three mornings; and so on until the sores are healed. Give each morning that you do not give the tincture, one or two of the bilious pills. I have cured these sores without the pills, but it is more certain to effect a cure, especially for sore eyes. I first cured two of my own children by this process; since which, I have cured many others. [From Dea. J. Wilmarth, Taunton] This may certify that my child has been afflicted with running sores on the head for three months, so that we were under the neces- sity of cutting off the hair. The disease resisted all remedies applied, and continued to grow worse. Hearing of Dr. Sanborn's success in curing humors, we applied to him, and I am happy now to state that his medicine had the effect to produce an immediate cure, not only of the head, but of a bowel complaint which was a year and a half standing. About a year after, I had another child affected in a simi- lar manner; I applied the same remedy, with like results. J. Wilmarth. DYSENTERY. This disease may be distinguished from the diarrhoea, from acute pain in the bowels which it produces, and discharge of bloody matter. It is most prevalent in the spring and fall. Night air, confined and unwholesome air, bad water, leaving off flannels, wet clothes, are some of the principal causes that pro- duce dysentery. The symptoms are frequent griping pain in the bowels, an in- clination to go often to stool, bloody discharges mixed with slime; it is attended with chills and quickness of pulse. When the patient goes to stool, he feels a bearing down, as though the whole bowels were falling out. It is very important in this dis- ease that the patient should keep clean, warm and quiet. Give the Corrector, as laid down on page 35, under the head " Diarrhoea: or, Looseness." 38 YELLOW FEVER. The yellow fever is a disease which very much resembles in its character, the highest grades of the bilious remittent fever. It is more violent in its attack, and all the symptoms are more aggravated ; and there is a greater tendency to putrescency. There are many predisposing causes to this complaint, among which may be reckoned intemperance of every kind. Almost all the victims of the yellow fever, are addicted to the use of ardent spirits, and such are the most liable to fall victims to it. Drink freely of yeast, if there is a tendency to putrescency; let the patient drink cold water if he craves it. The emetic should be administered in this disease, especially in the first stages of it, and active means used to promote perspiration. It will be found that the emetic produces a healthy action upon the liver and 6tomach, where the seat of the disease is. The vegetable pow- ders may be taken a number of times a day, both before and af- ter taking the emetic; add one-fourth rhubarb to the vegetable powders, and take a heaping tea-spoonful at a dose. This will allay irritation, equalize circulation, produce perspiration, and prove gently physical. Where the stomach is very irritable and excessive vomiting prevails, the following medicines are highly recommended: Rhubarb—20 grains. Saleratus—20 grains. Peppermint—a tea spoonful, pulverized. Add a gill of boiling water. Laudanum—15 drops. Brandy—a table spoonful. Mix, and sweeten with loaf sugar. One table spoonful of the above may be taken at a dose, and repeated every half hour until it ceases. A tea made of boneset, or thoroughwort, is particularly ser- viceable in this fever; it should be taken strong and at liberty. One patient who found great help from it, took two quarts in the course of a few hours; half a pint taken warm will generally produce vomiting. Soak the feet, bathe the whole surface with weak ley, &c. CONSUMPTION. Persons predisposed to consumption, should leave a northern country for the soutli, and by inducing bilious affections, the consumption often leaves. This course should not be put off too long. Little can be done for consumption by medicines. I place snore confidence in the cure of this complaint in the following 34 directions, than all the medicines in the world, especially in the first stages. Wash the whole body every morning in cold water, winter or summer, especially the chest, shoulders, back and neck ; wipe dry, and rub thoroughly with a coarse towel, until there is a gentle glow of warmth on the whole surface : this has a great tendency to prevent taking cold. Take early walks in the open air; let the mind be at perfect rest; let the food be nutri- tious—good beef-steak or roast beef, where it does not produce fever, and oysters. The use of the inhaling tube has wrought wonders in my own case, as well as others that I have known of. In some cases of advanced stage it has proved injurious. Wear thick flannel shirts in winter, and thinner in summer. By all means restrain coughing as much as possible ; it produces irrita- tion and inflammation, and thus adds fuel to fire. Keep the bowels open by exercise and food adapted to the case, such as Graham bread, fruit, &c. Avoid tea and coffee. Antimonial ointment rubbed over the chest, by producing counter-irritation, will sometimes cure a cough. Consumptive persons get along best who take the fresh air at all seasons of the year, in the day time, keep in nights and go to bed early. In using the antimonial ointment, it will be necessary to apply it a number of times until sores appear. I have known hard cases of cough cured by this ointment One case was a child of my own. A very severe cough was attended with dropsy in the bowels and chest; we gave her occasionally drastic purges, emetics, and ap- plied the vapor bath, and for a drink, checkerberry-leaf tea—and she recovered. We thought her at one time to be in a deep con- sumption. The alterative syrup (as laid down in this book) will be found very serviceable for consumption. A tea spoonful of the tincture of Lobelia may be taken occa- sionally. By all means bring the blood to the surface, by wash- ing and rubbing, and the vapor bath. Onanism is often the procuring cause of consumption, espe- cially in young persons. Reader! are you guilty of it? As you regard your soul and body, abandon it forever. I have seen young men, in the prime of life, brought down to the gates of the grave, by this filthy habit, and mourn over their folly, when too late! Tight-lacing is another fruitful cause of consumption, and it is perhaps the most difficult evil in the world to remedy, because it is almost impossible to convince the person who is in the habit of it, that they do lace so tight as to do harm. Persons predisposed to consumption should not choose a sedentary occupation. 35 D1ARRHCEA: or, LOOSENESS. Is not always a disease, but an effort of nature to throw off some disease. It ought, therefore, not to be checked, unless it produce weakness and debility. When it is produced by taking cold, take warming drinks, soak the feet, and excite a gentle mois- ture of the surface. Where this disease proceeds from an acid state of the stomach, give the Corrector, which is made of one tea-spoonful of saloeratus, one of peppermint, or spearmint finely pulverized, and one of best Turkey rhubarb, sweetened with loaf sugar; add half a pint of boiling water, a few spoonsful of spir- its, if it be at hand ; for an adult, take half a wine-glassful every hour till it produces a change in the stool. If the pain continue after giving the Corrector, give ten or fifteen drops of laudanum in a little warm water, which will remove the pain. I have proved this medicine myself. In common cases of slight relax in children produced by heat and exercise, let their food be milk thickened with flour, and drink nothing except sage tea, chocolate-root, or avens-root, a little cayenne, and milk scalded will be found serviceable. In some cases it may be necessary to take an emetic, but I think, rarely if the above course is properly pursued. Diarrhoea pro- duced by extreme agitation of mind, requires emetic instead of cathartic. When looseness proceeds from worms, the stool will appear slimy, and there will be appearances of decayed worms; when this is the case, means should be taken to expel the worms. Whatever may be the cause, when it is found necessary to stop the looseness, the patient should take light food. INDEX. Avens- Root American Ipecacu anha Anniseed Aloes Archangel Alder Alterative Syrup Burdock Bugle Bayberry Blackberry Blood Root Blue Flag Bitter Root Button Bush Page. 18 Bleeding at Lungs 23 British Oil 24 Bitters 27 Balsam of Life 28 Consumption 33 Catarrh Snuff 28 Cough Powders 28 Chocolate Root 18 Canker 22 Cankerrash 29 Compound Elixir 24 Cayenne Pepper 5 Camphor 6 Cranesbill 7 Catnip 9 Corrector 27 Castor Oil 11 Croup 22 Comfrey 12 Cough 23 Cleavers 15 Cholera Morbus 22 Centaury 18 Chilblains 25 Composition 24 Dropsy 25 Dyspepsy 31 Devil's bit,seeUnicorn Elecampane 8 Elder 14 Elixir 23 Page. Emetic 15 Fever in Children 26 Fever and Ague 26 Fir Balsam 10 Ginger 8 Golden Thread 5 Golden Seal 7 (iarget 1 1 Golden Rod 18 Hardback 19 Hot Drops 23 Harlasm Oil 24 Hoarhound 9 I Inflammation 23 I Injections 22 Indian Turnip 4 Indian Hemp 15 Jalap 19 Kitteridge's Oint't 21 Lovage ]9 Ladies' Slipper 6 Liquorice 7 Life Everlasting 8 Lobelia 15 Mountain Cranberry 19 Motherwort 18 Mayweed 3 Marsh Mallows 4 Mustard Seed 13 Mullen 14 Maiden Hair 19 Mother's Cordial 28 Nutriment for the Sick 22 Nettle ia Night Sweats 22 Opodeldoc 24 Oilnut 8 Pleurisy Root 3 Peppermint 9 Pine 10 Plantain ] ] Piles 22 Prickly Ash 14 Pennyroyal 14 Poplar Bark 19 Physical Powders 21 Page. 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