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.

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    of composition, one tea-spoonful of sugar, to a cup- ful of boiling water; after it steeps, strain off; then administer the same warm to keep the skin moist; arid at night, on retiring to bed, a heated stone should be placed at the feet wrapped in a cloth damp- ed with vinegar. The diet should be light and easy of digestion. It is important to keep up a uniform tem- perature in the sick room, for those who have had the management of croup, know that as soon as the fire is neglected, or the air in the apartment becomes chilly, there is a return, or increase of the malady. Note.—In diseases, terrible as the two last describ- ed, and many others incident to human nature, no time should be lost, but medical aid obtained as quick as possible; yet something should be done while the physician is coming, and more especially if he cannot come at all. In a work of this kind, most should be written on the more manageable diseases. [See American Remedies.] MUMPS. This is commonly a mild disease, requiring only that the patient avoid all causes of cold. Should fever appear, treat it as simple inflammatory fever. If swelling of the testicles in men, and the breasts in women, or delirium supervene, treat it as brain fever, mustard paste to the feet, fomentations to the parts affected. The philanthropic Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, said that there was no disease so trifling, but at one time or other it had proved an avenue to death; and there are times or rather cases, in which this disease puts on a frightful aspect. PLEURISY. Symptoms of inflammatory fever, accompanied with a sense of weight in the chest, which in a short time becomes acute; pain shooting into the side, thence to the breast bone, or through to the shoulder blade ; breathing difficult, and increases the pain. The patient cannot lie on the affected side; cough, frequent, hard, contracted pulse, vibrating under the