Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![28 213. I administer borage by large bowlfuls against indigestion and gastric embarrassments, suspended perspiration, cutaneous eruptions, retention of urine, with the addition of a small piece of camphor the size of a pea, placed under your teeth, at each bowl. 214. Borage grows naturally in gardens ; a single plant which Wars grain will cover tho whole ground the next year. During summer gather young plants and dry them up in the sun, to serve you during winter. 215. I invite ladies and mothers to introduce in their families the use of borage tea during their winter parties. The health of their families will be greatly benefitted by it and they will no longer dread being poisoned by Chinese tea. CHAPTER XIII. Injection and gargarisms. 216. The aim of injections is to clear the bowels, either of hard- ened accumulated excrement in the colon, or of worms which besiege them, or of poisonous substances which corrode them. 217. Laxative and softening injection : Boil a quarter of an hour in water, . . 1 litre. Linseed 30 grammes. Roses of new vine sprigs . . 10 When you take from the fire, throw in camphorated oil, . . .10 Administer with a syringe of easy play, suppress the use of old syringes which would expose you to wound yourself. 218. Purgative injection: Add to the preceding injection when boiling, aloes, [99] 3 pieces. 15 centigrammes. 219. Over purgative injection : Castor oil [195] 25 grammes. 220. Vermifuge injection : Water> .... 1 litre. 15 centigrammes. 15 15 « 10 grammee. me as a purgative; Aloes [99] Tobacco, Assa fcetida, .... Camphorated oil [153], . N. B. Aloes [99] acts on the large intes_ camphorated oil softens the sides, heals or prevents excoriation. Tobacco and assa fcetida in passing through the torrent of circulation spread their poisonous odour in all the tissues, even the breath, and reach the worms in the most hidden organs of the body. If tobacco does not create any bad effect, the dose may be doubled at the second injection. 221. Tobacco, sometimes produces, especially on females, a nar- cotic and intoxicating sensation for a few moments. This must not caase alarm; get in bed and smell vinegar ; in about ten minutes you will rise free from the effects of both your remedy and disease.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
