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?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    0900 feseooooeooOQOMOOoocoM * 1 ( 84 ) Choli- Take two ounces of Daffy's elixir,‘and repeat it as occa- lion may require, or half a drachm of the powder of rhubarb * toafted before the fire. I Confumptiovs, S:gm or. Quincy. | I A dry cough, a difpofition to vomit fter eating, an un- eafy flraitnels of the breaft, fpitting of bioid, a quiclcnefs of the pulfe after meals, and liulhingof the checks,as he difeafe advances, the matter brought up by the cough, if fpit into the fire yields an offenfive fraell, if into a glafs of water rt finks to the bottom, profufe night fweats, joofenefs and wafting away of the whole body. Method of Cure. A milk diet, riding on horfeback, country air, and bleeding frequently in {mail quantities at each t me taking away not more than fix ounces of bh.od, are the mofl effi- cacious remedies in this difcemper'; fnails boiled in milk have fometimes been of fervice, as is alio the peruvian bark when it does noteccafion a purging. Sydt’.ham and Bcerhac.we. Conantlji ns in Children. Signs of. The mouth is drawn a-wry, the eyes are diftorted, the face turns blackilh, ihe child’s fill is clenched, and the globes of the eyes feem immoveable; when thefe fymptoms give way, the child is fleepy till another fit comes on. Method 0/ Cure. Give three or four drops of the tinfture of.wood foot in a tea fpoonful of water frequently. A blifter applied to the nape of the neck is alfo ferviceable. Sydenham. Jlchs and Pains. Rub opodeldock upon the part aftc&ed, three times a day, and wear a flannel upon it, if this does not give relief, take twenty drops of volatile tintture of guaicuin,/ [prepared as direfted in the appendix] every night and morning in a glafs of fpiing water. Heifler. .* * * t Boils. »cwoc3«<»*wii»o«M»iminw $ > imewc XWOSCI