The prudent housewife: or, complete English cook, for town and country : Being the newest collection of the most genteel, and least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery ... / Written by Mrs. Fisher, of Richmond.

Fisher, Lydia

Date:: [1788?]

Credit: The prudent housewife: or, complete English cook, for town and country : Being the newest collection of the most genteel, and least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery ... / Written by Mrs. Fisher, of Richmond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$MX ( 10] ) P 1 t Whit s, Signs of. A flux of matter from the womb, attended with a pain and weight in the loins, lofs of appetite, pale complexion, -difficulty of breathing, a iiablenefs to mifcarriage, and a fwcllrng of the hands and feet. Meth d of C u re. Apply a large (Irengthening plaiihr to the fmall of the back, and take a quarter of a pint of this decedtion every night and morning. Take cow’s milk half a pint, and boil it in half a pint of archangel flowers, and a bit of cinnamon, tfrain u for ufe ; in obilinate cafes, bathing in the fea, and drinking fea water,- is far preferable to any thing elfe. Ruff. I. . i - 'j . \ dppoplexy. The immediate preceding figns are, trembling, flagger- ing, a giddinefs in the head, dimnefs of fight, fleepinefs, lofs of memory, noife in the ear?, and deep and laborious breathing. The difeafe itfelf is a total deprivation of fenfe and motion, except that of refpiration, which is performed with difficulty, and fnoring. It ufually ends fn a paralytic d forder, and is feldom curable, but always leaves behind it a great defed of memory and motion. Method of Cure. Cupping in the nape and fides of the reck is always ufe- fiil, provided the fcsrifications are deep eno igh to give a free paflage to the blood, flimulatiiig dyftcrs and warm purges arealfo offervice, as is alio the following electuary ; Take half an ounce of powdered heath valerian, and(one ounce and a half of conferve cf orange peel, and mix them together; the dofe is the q amity of a nutmeg every four hours, diflolved in a cup-full of rofemary tea. Apply a ftrong blilter to the back, the diet mufl be very fparing. Mead, Syd.nhum and /defer! *. » * k »•» ■1 .... ' i df/ltm nr Plthftc, Sig^s of. Acobflrufled ar d ycry laboriousbreathing, attended with unfpeakable anxiety, and a ffiaitnefs about the bread. P i I * t Mcth.d -»*rjM i I'M *»Itry*»$