Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley.

  • John Wesley
Date:
1858
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Credit: Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two or three times a day of equal parts of powdered jalap and senna, with four or five grains of powdered cloves. Then, sulphate of quinine should be taken to the amount of ten grains a day. A tea made of the golden seal is an excellent remedy.] 3. St. Anthony's Fire. St. Anthony's fire is a fever attended with a red and painful swelling, full of pimples, which afterwards turn into small blisters, on the face or some other part of the body. The sooner the eruption is seen, the less the dan- ger. Let your diet be only water-gruel, or barley-broth, with roasted apples. Take a glass of tar-water warm, in bed, every hour, washing the part with the same. Tar-water is made thus.—Put a gallon of cold water to a quart of Norway tar. Stir them together with a flat stick for five or six minutes. After it has stood covered for three days, pour off the water clear, bottle and cork it. Or, take a decoction of elder leaves, as a sweat; ap- plying to the part a cloth dipt in lime water, mixed with a little camphorated spirits of wine. Lime-water is made thus.—Infuse a pound of good quick lime, in six quarts of spring water, for twenty-four hours. Decant, and keep it for use. Or, take two or three gentle purges.—No acute fever bears repeated purges better than this, especially, when it affects the head : meantime, boil a handful of sage, two handfuls of elder leaves (or bark) and an ounce of
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