The book to cure you (safely and effectually); or, the receipt book of efficacious medicines for the cure of external and internal diseases / re-arranged, corrected, and improved... by H. S. Lincon Hows.

  • Chase, Alvin Wood, active 1880.
Date:
[1880?]
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Credit: The book to cure you (safely and effectually); or, the receipt book of efficacious medicines for the cure of external and internal diseases / re-arranged, corrected, and improved... by H. S. Lincon Hows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    AGU value in the treatment of Intermittent Fever, or Ague. A physician gave the article in twenty-three cases, and it was successful in all but one, in intenupting the paroxysms, and preventing relapse. In the majority of cases, 5 or 6 drops of the strong acid, given in a little gum mucilage, every 2 hours, until 60 drops had been taken, were sufficient to break the fever, and restore the patient to health. The foregoing confirms the efficacy of Ague Anodyne. AGUE MEDICINES.—Dr. Krieders Pills— Quin- ine 20 grs.; Dover’s powder, 10 grs.; sub-carbonate ofuron 10igrs^ mix with mucilage of gum arable and form into 20 pills. Dose- Two, each hour, commencing 5 hours before the chill sets in. Take one, night and morning, until all are taken. _ I cured myself of Ague with this pill after being threatened with it for three years, and using all the common remedies of the day, five weeks being the Ion crest I could keep it off, until I obtained the above oil]° This was before I had studied medicine. 1 have cured many with it, without repeating the dose except in one case. . . . . ' In Acruc, it is best to take an active cathartic imme- diately after the first ‘fit,’ unless the bowels are lax and by the time the cathartic has worked oft weih you can apply the ‘ cure’ as soou as you know its periodi- Cakrr0young children, put 5 to 6 grs. of quininc in ajhiaWi^l A*^ick^solution^of liquorice* will hide tho taste of tho quinine. AGUE MIXTURE without Quinine.—Mrs. W ads- worth of New York, has used tho following Ague Mixture for twenty years, perfectly curing more than forty cases. Sbo takes ltalr.k. root ft»h d«J, iTSSlSllo hour before tho chill.