A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families : in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated ; to which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals ; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living / by Thomas Cooper, M.D. ; also, The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years, by M. Appert.

Thomas Cooper

Date:: 1824

Credit: A treatise of domestic medicine, intended for families : in which the treatment of common disorders are alphabetically enumerated ; to which is added, a practical system of domestic cookery, describing the best, most economical, and most wholesome methods of dressing victuals ; intended for the use of families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living / by Thomas Cooper, M.D. ; also, The art of preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years, by M. Appert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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take 3 tea-spoonfuls of strong tinc- ttire of hops. Send however for the Doctor. King's Evil, or Scrofula, Arises from exposure to cold in in- clement climates ; want of cleanliness, and want of good food, indigestion, hereditary taint. Live generously out not too full ; exercise in fine weather, use the cold bath, wear flannel next the skin, re- move to a warm climate. A decoction of sarsaparilla 4 parts, with mezereon 1 part, will be a good breakfast, used as tea. Avoid salt fish, and salt meat, use vegetables in large proportion, but not without meat. In violent and advanced cases, apply to a physician. Knee. Bruises on the knee are very obsti- nate, keep in bed for a week, take purges, live low. Lethargy. Keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open; that is, take little food, little sleep, and much exercise. Take cathartics. Lip. Swellings in the lip, should be ex- amined without delay by a surgeon. Liver, Inflammation of, send for your physi- cian. Obstructions in the liver, see Gall- stone, Jaundice. Take a purge or two of calomel and jalap. If that does not cure, send for your physician. Longings, Of pregnant women. Indulge them in moderation. Looseness. See Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Low Spirits, or Vapours. Engage steadily in some occupation that will employ you nearly to fatigue. Use the cold bath, and keep your bow- els open. Lumbago, May be rheumatic, or gouty. Kieea, puree, and if need be, blister, ro pi lent it, wash the loins daily in cold wa- ter The part may also be rubbed with camphor dissolved in aether. But gene- rally, lumbago proceeds from gouty in- digestion, and repeated purges are like- ly to be of service, combined with low diet, and cold ablution. The chronic lumbago, and sciatica, need medical ad- vice. Lungs. Disorders of the lungs require a physician. Measles. See Fever, Eruptive. Menses, obstructed. Pain in the back, loins, and hips; foetid breath, sense of great fatigue, indigestion, flatulence, acidity. If the pulse be full, bleed moderately ; purge with magnesia and epsom or rochelle salts; use the warm bath, clothe in flan- nel, use frequent exercise in the day by walking or riding ; sit over the steam of warm water. If the disease is of long standing, pursue the tonic plan under the head Green Sickness. Attend care- fully to the state of the stomach and bowels, and exhibit gentle emetics and cathartics when the tongue is foul. Menses, Immoderate.—If it be at- tended by symptoms of fulness or ple- thora, bleed in the arm, give an emetic, use low diet of little nourishment, lie in bed, keep cool, take laxative medicines. If from laxity of fibre, and debility, give gentle laxatives, not amounting to pur- ges, as half an ounce of rochelle salt. Use cold water to the loins morning and night, exercise on horseback or on foot in the open air: use the tonics re- commended under Green Sickness. But the advice of a physician will be use- ful. Menses Ceased, JYaturally.—If there be a sense of fulness in the head, giddi- ness, and fatigue, bleed, take purgatives every other day, live low, use exercise; if any running sores appear, do not dry them up suddenly.

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