Volume 1

The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith].

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789
Date:
[between 1770 and 1779]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [. 3»] SPERMA CETI EMULSION. Take two drams of the powder of fperma ceti, rub it in a mar¬ ble mortar, with a quarter part of the yolk of one egg, till it is a fmooth pulp; then add two drams of fine fugar in powder, mix them well together, and by little and little pour on half a pint of cold barley water; ftrain it through a fine hair or coarfe lawn fieve, which will keep back the undiffolved part of the fperma ceti, and render the emulfion fmooth and even; to the whole you may add two fpoonfuls of cinnamon water, and from ten to twenty drops of laudanum. A wine-glafs may be taken as often as agreeable, in coughs and hoarfenefs, likewife when troubled with phlegm, or any of the like complaints a fpoonful may be given to children in the hooping cough, when, if they are feverifh, you fhould join a little fever powder with it, and purge them with rhubarb or the quick purging powder once in four or five days; you may likewife give the ftomach tindture between breakfaft and dinner, and between dinner and fupper: gentle vomits are oftentimes alfo ferviceable in the hooping cough. And after proper evacuations have been ufed, if the fever intermits, the decodtion of bark three times in the day, with a drop or two of laudanum in each dofe, will perform a perfedt cure. Thefe remarks are worthy attention. SPERMA CETI and SUGAR-CANDY. This may be taken at pleafure, when troubled with a cough or hoarfenefs, difficulty of breathing, or with phlegm; it is often of fome fervice, and fo innocent, it can do no harm even to young children. SPIRIT of LAVENDER Is ufed in lownefs of fpirits as a cordial; it is alfo given in faintings and pains in the head; and may be taken frequently, from ten to fixty drops, on a lump of fugar, in wine and water, or any other liquor. STEEL i