Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith.

  • William Edward Smith
Date:
1875
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Credit: Lectures on nursing / by William Robert Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    two ounces of sugar-candy into a jug, and pour over them a quart of boiling water. Keep in the steam by covering the jug, and when cold, strain the liquid. The tamarinds will serve a second time by adding half the quantity of sugar-candy and water to them. Barley-vjater. An ounce of pearl-barley must be boiled for two hours and a half in a quart of water, which is to be stirred and skimmed frequently. It must be then strained into a jug, and sweetened with a teaspoonful of sugar-candy. The strained juice of a lemon may sometimes be added with advantage. Another way of making barley-water for the sick is to take two ounces of pearl-barley, and wash it clean in cold water; then boil for ten minutes in a quart of v:ater. Now pour away the water, and put to it three pints of warm water; let it simmer till re- duced to two pints, and strain it through a hair sieve. Linseed-tea. Put an ounce of linseed, and half an ounce of Spanish liquorice into a jug, and pour over it a pint and a half of boiling water; let it stand till cold, and then strain. Arrowroot. Moisten two teaspoonfuls of arrowroot with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk. When it is quite smooth pour in half a pint of boiling milk; then place it in a bright saucepan, and stir over the fire for three or four minutes. Two or three tea- spoonfuls of powdered loaf sugar may be added to sweeten it. Wine or brandy will frequently be prescribed with 14
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