The family physician, or, Every man his own doctor : in three parts : together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of Asiatic cholera, a glossary, explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index and appendix / by Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
Date:
1834
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Credit: The family physician, or, Every man his own doctor : in three parts : together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of Asiatic cholera, a glossary, explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index and appendix / by Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RHEUMATISM. 171 Take the ripe berries of skoke or poke weed, and fill a jug with them; then pour on them as much spirits as the jug will hold. When the strength of the berries is extracted it is fit for use. The liquor is called pokeweed bounce; a wine-glassful three times a day is the proper dose. JAUNDICE. Give a thorough dose of mandrake physic. Then take jcnson root, prickly ash bark, sarsaparilla and burdock roots, .horse radish, and red cherry bark, make a decoction by boil- ing them together, strain off the liquor, add an equal quantity of rum, or enough to keep it from souring, and take a wine- glassful three times a day, an hour before eating. In the mean time the eighth part of a tea-spoonful, or less if it pukes, of ]§ulverized blood root, should be taken night and morning for a week; discontinue a few days, and then commence taking it again, and so continue until cured. WORMS. Take the top of the herb called wormwood, dry and pul- verize it, then give a little of the powder, say one eighth of tea-spoonful, mixed up with molasses, and in one hour after- wards give a dose of mandrake physic. Or, make a tea of the bark of the pride of China, and take as much of it during the day as the child can bear without vomiting or purging, and the next morning give a dose of oil, or senna, or man- drake physic. Or, give one or two tea-spoonfuls of oak of Jerusalem seeds in molasses or honey, twice a day, and con- tinue it for several days; then give some kind of physic. KING'S EVIL. Take the root and branch of the plant called king's evil weed, make a poultice of it by pounding it in a mortar, and