The only genuine and authentic account of the life and memoirs of ... H. Jenkins ... who lived to the ... age of 169 years ... / [Henry Jenkins].

  • Jenkins, Henry, approximately 1501-1670.
Date:
1829
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Credit: The only genuine and authentic account of the life and memoirs of ... H. Jenkins ... who lived to the ... age of 169 years ... / [Henry Jenkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    take no internal medicine.—Or, take a spoonful of the juice of lemons, or .strong -vinegar, every morning fasting.—Or, drink often strong wormwood tea.—Or, drink half a pint of lime water night and morning.—White sop in children’s food has an excellent effect.—Lastly, take g reat exercise in the open air.— N. B. Children have been cured by taking two tea spoonfuls of worm-seed in treacle, for six following morning.s. FLAT, OR T.APE WORM.S. 859. Mix a large spoonful of Norway tar in a pint of small beer, take it as soon as you can in a morning fasting, till the worm comes away ; this is a sure remedy, but children must take a less quantity.—Or, take a teacuiiful, or more, of mare’s milk, drawn fresh from the beast, every night and morning fasting for a week; this either kills, or forces them away alive.—N. B. Swoonings and a voracious appetite are symptoms of the above.—All other worms require nearly the same treatment.—The best preventive against worms is to drink no bad water. WOUNDS. 861. Applyto them immediately powder of yarrow.—Or, wash tJiem often with a strong decoction of marshmallows.—Or, of wood betony, bruised ; this last heals cut veins and sinews, and draws out thorns and splinters.—Or, lay on a fresh and tender leaf of brook lime.—Or, lake a drachm of the powder of the tops of ground-ivy twice a day.—Or, apply a plaster of the tops of mother, or St. John’s wort, bruised, every day.—Fresh made tinder stops them from bleeding. INWARD WOUNDS. 870. Take twice a day twenty or thirty drops of Turlington’s balsam on loaf sugar.—Or, take twice a day two or three drops of the essential oil of lavender on loaf sugar.—Or, drink often a cupful of marshmallow tea.—Or, a cupful of yarrow four times a day; it must remain for twelve hours before it is drank. WOUNDED 'J ENDON. 874. Boil comfrey roots to a thick mucilageor jelly, and apply it as a poultice ; change i( twice a day. TO OPEN A WOUND THAT MAS CI.OSED TOO SOON. 875. Apply to it bruised centaury. PUTRID W()UNDS. 876. Wash them night and morning with the warm decoc- tion of agrimony.—If they heal too soon, and gather matter, ap-
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