Family physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs / by John Frisbee.

  • Frisbee, John.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Family physician : designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs / by John Frisbee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    feet, damp rooms, hallowing, blowing on wind instru- ments, &c. Treatment.—The first thing to be performed, is to soak the feet in juniper water, steeped from the fiat juniper bush; while the feet are soaking give a draft or two of stimulating tea, then take some of the juniper water, put the same in some convenient vessel, put a hot rock in the liquor, then throw a coverlid over the head, so as to retain the steam under the coverlid. The person ought to inhale the steam into the lungs, as much as possible, while in the steam; the steam should be kept up until the person should perspire well all over the body, then wash the patient all over with vinegar or rum—do not omit the head;—then dress in clean woollen clothes, give an emetic of ipecac ; after the emetic is done operating give a half or a \vhole glass of wormwood tea, then give a gentle physic; make a tea of the blackberry leaves, hyssop, lovage, each a handful, add half a tea-spoonful of fine salt, one sprig of wormwood, one quart of boiling water, steep fifteen minutes, strain off, add one glass of honey ; a table spoonful of this may be given every fifteen or twenty minutes, as the case may require. External applications to the throat are important; for this purpose take of wormwood, strip- ped from the stalks, simmer in vinegar, add two tea- spoonsfuls of table salt, one tea-spoonful of hogs fat, apply it to the throat with a woollen cloth; rub it ten or fifteen minutes; then apply the wormwood as a bath, upon the neck ; repeat several times a day ; it will be well to add a little cayenne to the liquor. The composition tea will be found useful in this com- plaint. An injection in this complaint will also be found very beneficial, composed of a sprig or two of lobelia, one tea-spoonful of flour of elm, a small hand- ful of thorough wort, one tea-spoonful of composition to a pint of water, steep fifteen minutes, strain off; add for a child one tea-spoonful of caster oil, or one tea spoonful of hogs lard. Administer the decoction blood warm. [See American Remedies.]