The housekeeper's guide, or, Every man his own doctor : Containing many valuable receipts and prescriptions (approved of by the most eminent physicians), for the cure of the human body, &c. to which is added a description of different kinds of baths, bathing, electricity, &c. also a treatment of the cholera.

Date:: 1837

Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or, Every man his own doctor : Containing many valuable receipts and prescriptions (approved of by the most eminent physicians), for the cure of the human body, &c. to which is added a description of different kinds of baths, bathing, electricity, &c. also a treatment of the cholera. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$55 A cure, for piles or sores. Eat rosemary and sage with bread and batter; and aj)plv wheal flower and honey, by way of plaster. 56 For inward bruises. Drink a strong decoction of cumfrey with bread and butter. 57 How to cure a cough. Of almonds, (blanched) half an ounce, tincture of opium forty drops, syrup of tolu half an ounce; take two table spoonsfull twice a day. 58 King's evil. Mix a little bole ammoniac in j)owder w'ith some ^'enice turj)entine, spread it on sheep leather, and apply it under the throat from ear to ear. 59 For the agiie. Drink the decoction of cammomile, well sweetened with treacle; take it when you ai'e warm in bed, and sweat two hours. \ * 60 For scald or bruise. One quart of neat’s foot oil, half a pound of red lead, two ounces of bee’s wax, boil them three hours, stirring them well ; then add to them one ounce of the oil of elder. Let it cool for use, and bathe the part afflicted with the same. 61 Twisting of the guts. ilany at the ]>oint of death, have been cured bv taking one, two or three pounds of quicksilver, ounce by ounce. 62 Obstructions. Anniseeds, carraway seeds, turmeric, flour of sul- phur, cream of Uirtar and sugar, of each half an ounce ; ferri carbonas, three drachms. Let all be finely$

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