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* ] STEEL ELECTARY. In female obftru&ions this eledtary may be given from half a dram to one dram, night and morning, in the form of a bolus, or made into pills, as is moft agreeable, drinking a cup of cold chamo¬ mile-flower tea, or a little penny-royal and hyfteric water; if you have reafon to think phyfic is proper, give a dofe of hiera picra; at bed-time, let the feet be bathed in warm water for ten minutes, then wipe them very dry, and, if the weather is cold, wrap them up in a piece of flannel. This is an excellent medicine for the green ficknefs, and for young girls, at a certain period, when they are approaching towards the age of women. *STOMACH TINCTURE. This tindture is highly proper in a weaknefs of ftomach, lofs of appetite, or bad digeftion; as a bitter, it frequently contributes to the deftroying of worms ; and not only excites the fenfe of hun¬ ger, but, by its warm aromatic property, at the fame time that it gives a grateful fenfation, ftrengthens the coats of the ftomach, which by any caufe may have been weakened, and renders it more able to break and digeft the food taken in for the nourifhment of the body. The dofe for a grown perfon is from one to two tea-fpoonful^ an hour before dinner, and three hours after dinner, in a glafs of * I cannot pafs by this tinfture without giving that praife which is juftly due to it.— In weak ftomachs, whether from intemperance or conftitutional, it is equally efficacious; when there is alfo an acidity in the ftomach, or the patient be of a coftive habit of body, a dofe of the magnefia fhould be taken likewife, once or twice a day.—I fpeak with the certainty of fuccefs, when I declare, that this regimen, purfued for a month or two, will remove complaints in the ftomach that have been of long ftanding, and thought incurable. And in he&ic and inter¬ mittent fevers, attended with lofs of appetite, after proper evacuations have been ufed, it is a fovereign remedy, when joined with the deception of bark. water;