The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cough Powder. Take of skunk cabbage roots, four parts ; hoarhound, two parts ; wake robin or wild turnip, one part ; lobelia, one part; cayenne, one part; bayberry root bark, _one part; bitter root, one part; nerve powder, one part ; all * made fine, and well mixed together. Half a tea-spoonful for _adose, to be taken in West India molasses, The best time ~ when going to bed, and to be persisted intill relief is obtained. These powders are good in any cough, consumption, &c. Vegetable composition pills. ‘Take a sufficient quantity of cold water, and the inner bark of slippery elm, reduced to a fine powder ; beat these well togther so as to form a jelly ; to one pint of thisadd four ounces of loaf sugar pounded fine ; stir them well together, and then add two ounces of golden seal; one ounce of bitter root; one ounce of bayberry, the bark-of the root; balmony, the herb, half an ounce ; ginseng, two drachms—all to bewreduced to a/fine powder, and well mixed together; after this add a sufficient of cayenne and nerve powder to form it into a proper mass for making pills. | When formed into pills they may be rolled. in the powdered _ bark of the elm, or in fine loaf sugar, From three to six isa dose for an adult. ‘These pills are employed in costiveness, and other complaints of the bowels; they operate as a very mild laxative, good to strengthen the digestive organs, and warm the stomach ; and are beneficial in most diseases—they _ relieve pain in the stomach of weak persons, caused by indi- gestion or weakness of the stomach. Emetic pills. Take of the seeds of lobelia in powder, one Ounce ; cayenne in powder, one ounce; nerve powder, two drachms—take the extract or syrup of black poplar bark, _ three parts, and of No. 6, one part; of these a sufficient quan- __ tity to form, the whole into a proper mass for pills. The ex- tract or syrup is made thus : boil the strength out of the bark ; It down to the consistency of tl oyed to scour the stomach ; they hen going to bed. Enough should be he stomach and not puke, (which is -be taken to nauseate t ic] Should vomiting take place, the patient liquor and boi These pills may be empl ial