Volume 1
The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith].
- Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789
- Date:
- [between 1770 and 1779]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
59/78 (page 29)
![[29] tea-pot, and pouring upon it a gill of boiling water ; when cold, pour out the liquor, which will be ftrong enough to give a grown perfon a ftool or two. A little manna and falts may be diffolved in this fena tea* which makes it operate brifker. SHAM ASSES MILK. Boil two ounces of hartffiorn fhavings in two quarts of water, to one quart. At the time you ufe it add one third part, or one half, of milk. This is preferable to all other receipts for this purpofe, becaufe it is more ftrengthening, and not ill-flavoured. It is a good nourifhment for children and invalids, and much to be recommended after long fevers. Where milk is not proper, a little wine, or a fpoonful of rum or brandy, may be added to it; and it is then an excellent drink to be ufed in a fick chamber. SNUFF FOR THE HEAD-ACH. This fnuff may be fafely ufed in all complaints of the head. It is prepared from herbs which have a peculiar efficacy in thofe cafes, as is manifeft from the infinite fervice received from it, in old and fettled pains of the head. It may be taken as freely as you pleafe. SPERMA CETI BOLUS. Take of fperma ceti one fcruple, of powder for fweats ten grains, make thefe into a bolus with a fufficient quantity of fyrup, to be taken once in fix or eight hours,—with a little penny-royal and hyfteric water, in lying-in cafes and mifcarriages; in either of which, where the pains are violent, you may add three, four, or five drops of laudanum to each bolus; remember alfo to pre¬ vent coftivenefs, either by gentle clyffers, a little fena tea, or fome other mild purgative. If the after-pains are very fevere, you may increafe the dole of laudanum, efpecially at bed-time, or immediately after the delivery. SPERMA](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30788754_0001_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
