The Good Samaritan - The American Family Keepsake: Or, Peoples Practical Cyclopedia

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF HEALTH , MEDICAL HINTS , ETC .

VALUABLE TO EVERY FAMILY .

OR RULES OF DEBATE FOR PUBLIC MEETINGS .

DOCTOR AT HOME.

PART I.

W E shall not attempt a description of the nature or symptoms of disease, but proceed upon the supposition that the character of the disease is understood by the patient. After naming the disease, we shall prescribe a few simple but well-tried remedies. In all cases of danger, or doubt, send at once for good physician.

ASTHMA.

1. Syrup of squills, in small doses, is the most simple remedy.

2. Or the tincture of ipecac, or lobelia, may be given at intervals, till it produces nausea without vomiting.

3. Skunk cabbage root, taken in the form of a syrup, or dried and smoked through a pipe, will give relief.

4. Burn a piece of brown paper, as big as your two hands, that has been wet in strong saltpetre water, in your room on going to bedit will give great relief.

POOR APPETITE.

1. Take a tonic bitter made as follows:Six parts bayberry root, one part wormwood, one part tansy; boil out the strength, and sweeten to your taste. Dose, half wine-glass three or four times a day.

2. Or steep 1 oz. quassia, 2 oz. thoroughwort, in pint and a half of water; when cool, strain, and add half pint good port wine. Dose, half wine-glass three times a day.

BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.

1. Soak the feet in warm water; put lint up the nose, wet with hot drops; and keep the temples wet with cold water.

2. Or, pour cold water upon the back of the neck, and put a ball of rag up the nostril, dipped in equal parts of white of egg, sugar, and burnt alum.

BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS.

1. Eat freely of raw table-salt.

2. Or, take a tea-spoonful, three or four times a day, of equal parts of powdered loaf sugar and rosin.

3. Or, boil an ounce of dried yellow dock root in a pint of milk. Take a cupful two or three times a day.

BILES.

1. Apply a poultice of warm bread and milk.

2. Or, a poultice of rye meal, with the addition of a teaspoonful of paregoric.

BRUISES.

1. Apply a warm poultice of bruised wormwood and rum, or vinegar.