Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases : also, Modern medicine / by O.W. Gordon.
- John Wesley
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Rev. John Wesley's valuable primitive remedies, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases : also, Modern medicine / by O.W. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Or, the Arseniate of Gold [5th,] or, Alstonia Constricta 2d dilution. Use the Stillingia Liniment. 392. WEED OR INFLAMED BREAST. Keep the breast as free of milk as possible. Then in a glass of water put half a grain of Tartar Emetic, to which add ten drops of Aconite. Dose : a teaspoonful eYery hour or two until better; then extend the time. At the same time apply over the inflamed breast the Clay mixture given on P. 237. Or, cut open a chicken and apply it warm; or a cat skin the same ; there is nothing better. 394. CHILD-BED FEVER. [Puerperal Fever.] Give [Aeon. Bell., and Bry.] Also take half a dram of Cream of Tartar, and the fourth of a grain of Podophyllin; mix, and give at a dose ; to be repeated every two hours until it produces free purging. To be followed by No. 1, P. 272. Send for a good Physician. 395. WOUNDS, CUTS, ETC. Cleanse the wound; remove foreign bodies ; bring the in- jured parts together ; hold them in place by adhesive plaster](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083976_0294.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
