—

pared as above, in spite of the causticity of the bichloride (corrosive sublimate

the skin is not irritated by this mixture, and after

is the bichloride of mercury),

extensive applications to the skin, no mercury is found in the urine.

The fact that by this form of mixing the corrosive sublimate prevents its

absorption into the system, it should be so prepared

;

as it thus cures these

other skin diseases, it becomes valuable for these purposes.

and

It will also cure

black-heads (worms in the skin of the face).

See " Pimples, Tetter, etc.," where corrosive sublimate is also used.

itch, as well as pimples, blotches,

—

3. Freckles, Remedy for.

The follovdng remedy is said to have

been found efiicacious in Europe: Finely powdered sulpho-phenate of zinc (one

of the newer remedies), 1 part; ml of lemon, 1 part; pure alcohol, 5 parts;

collodion, 45 parts drops, grs. or drs.

may be used. Direcas you please

tions Mix well then apply to the freckles, twice daily, until the change is

;

—

—

—

;

affected.

4.

saltpeter,

5.

To Remove Freckles. —Rub them twice, daily, with a piece of

moistened by touching it in water.

Sunburn, to Remove. — Water, 1 pt.;

—

pulverized borax,

Directions Put in a bottle and shake before using.

ened by exposure to the sun, twice daily.

6.

1

oz.

Wet the parts, black-

Pimple, Tetter or Bad Skin Diseases, Remedy.

—Put corro-

sive sublimate, 30 grs., into a 4 oz. vial, with J^ oz. of oil of sassafras (these to

be rubbed together), and fiU the bottle with alcohol.

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134

Remarks.

—Upon pimples of an ulcerative character, or on eruptions, like

apply this corrosive mixture, once a day only, until some

inflammation manifests itself, then discontinue, and apply simple glycerine,

If in any case the pimples or

vaseline or some mild ointment, until healed.

eruptions show again, do the same for 2 or 3 times, which will generally cure

them, especially if a proper cathartic is first given, then an alterative course of

medicine is given. But should the above fail in any case, double the amount

of corrosive sublimate and try it again. It has been used as strong as here

tetter or salt-rheum,

recommended; but if of

it will be understood

less strength will do, so

much the better.

Of course

that this is a poison, and children should not have access

to it; although it is safe and valuable to use as above directed.

Tetter, Simple

7.

Cure for. — It is claimed also that to wet gun-

powder and smear on the tetter twice a day, for 2 or 3 days, will effect a permanent cure. It would undoubtedly be rather severe. I should rub it up in

water, or spirits of camphor, to use it, and make the strength bearable, as it is

no use to kill it dead the first pop, but use it milder, and longer, will do as well.

If the gun-powder was rubbed fine, then rubbed into an ointment with lard, or

vaseline, I think it would do just as well. A tea-spoonful of the powder to 1

oz. will be strong enough.

But do not forget a laxative treatment with sulphur

and cream of tartar, salts or magnesia, as may be preferred.

—

To remove worms in the face,

8. Pace Worms, to Rem.ove.

place over the black spot the hollow end of a watch-key, and press firmly.

This forces the foreign substance out, so that it may be brushed off, and is a

cure.

A lady writer gives us the following, also:

9.

Pace Worms, Pimples, etc. — Wash your face night and morn-

ing in strong cologne water and rub dry with a coarse towel.

Also take a

thimbleful of sulphur in a glass of milk 2 or 3 times a week, before breakfast.

Continue the practice a couple of weeks.

Remarks. It is a well known fact that sulphur is a valuable thing to take

internally, from its alterative effect in all diseases of the skin; and one of the

—

handiest ways to take

it,

is

to

mix it up quite thick, with a little syrup, or

molasses; and when thus mixed, in place of stopping to measure out the lady's

as above, take what you can in a tea-spoon, three mornand skip three, till nine doses are taken. Some prefer to make it

half-and-half, with cream of tartar, and to take it in the same way; but the

cream of tartar is not as necessary in skin difficulties, as it is in more general

thimbleful,

ings,

inflammations, such as boils, swellings, etc.

10.

Pimples, Bad and of Long Standing.— Prof. Scudder,

Cincinnati,

case of

a

Ohio,

girl

reports

who had

ol

through the Eclectic Medical Journal, the

been troubled for years with pimples, which

cured in 10 days, by the simple use of bicarbonate of soda

(common baking soda). He claimed, because of a broad, pallid or pale tongue,

the soda was needed to neutralize an acid condition of the system.

The cure

proved him correct. Dose—For a girl of 15 years, the age of the one cured,

left large scars,

% tea-spoonful in a

little water, 2

or 3 table-spoonfuls only, after each meal.

TREA TMENT OF DISEASES.

Remarks.

— will prove valuable in many cases, and in

It

135

all cases with acidity

of the stomach, "belching" wind, or passing large amounts of gas per rectvma.

In these cases, "belching" of the wind, or gas distending the stomach and

mix ivory black (which is an animal charcoal), with equal parts

of sugar and half a tea-spoonful of the mixture, taken before meals, by placing on the tongue dry, then taking a sip of water to swallow it. These two

bowels,

will soon correct this condition which arises from dyspepsia.

PILLS, Compound Cathartic and. Liver. — Comp.

1.

ext.

of

gamboge and ext. of

hyoscyamus, each, 25 grs. castile soap in powder (in fact, all in powder except

Mix and make into 100 pills.

the extract of hyoscyamus, which is gummy).

Dose As an active cathartic, 2 or 3 pills, to act on the liver 1 pill at bedtime

colocynth, ext. of jalap and calomel, each, 100 grs. ;

;

—

each night until the action is sufficient.

Remarks. I have prescribed them and found them to have the desired

But if there are

effect with those persons who prefer calomel to podophyllin.

those who think they would like this pill best if it was not for the calomel,

—

they can leave it out, or put in only 25 grs. of it, so as to have one-fourth of a

grain only in each pill. Either way it will be found efficient and satisfactory.

The old plan of giving

I prefer it with only \i gr. of calomel to each pill.

large doses of calomel, I feel thankful, is among the things of the past.

2.

Butternut Pills. —A very valuable cathartic is made by taking the

inner bark of the butternut tree and roots (not old trees),, strip it into strips and

put in a clean boiler, with plenty of water, and keep moderately hot for 48

hours, then boil for a few hours longer, after which pour out and strain; then

down to a consistency of thick molasses, adding at this point as much

down carefully until

quite thick; then preserve in covered jars.

Dose— A piece the size of a small

hickory nut, or less, as may be found to be necessary to produce proper catharboil

molasses as there is of the extract, and continue to boil

During the Revolution there was but little other physic used. This,

however, was very satisfactory and still in places where the tree abounds, it may

be adopted with a like satisfaction. In case that it gripes or gives pain in its

action, a little powdered ginger, or capsicum may be incorporated with the

gummy mixture to overcome this tenesmus, as doctors call it. One-fourth aa

much bulk of the ginger or one-eighth of capsicum will be sufficient.

tic action.

;

3. Liver Regulator, or Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, etc.,

Liquid Remedy for.— Fluid exts. of dandelion, blue flag-root and rhubarb,

each, 1 oz.

;

Dose

Mix.

fl.

ext.

leptandra (Culver's physic) and simple syrup, each, 2 ozs.

— One-half tea-spoonful every 6 hours.

4.

Liver Syrup, or Liver Regulator, in Place of Pills for an

Inactive Liver, Constipation, etc. The fl. exts. of wahoo, butternut

—

and cascara sagrada, each

oz.

;

fl.

;

fl.

exts. of fringe tree and white ash, each, J^

exts. of berberis aquaf olium, prickly ash and bitter root (Culver's physic),

each, 1 dr.

Dose

% oz.

Mix and add simple syrup to fill a 4 oz. bottle shake when used.

—Take i^ tea-spoonful

;

and if it does not start the action

of the liver in 3 or 4 days at most increase the dose to %, or even 1 iea-spoonat bedtime only,

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BR CHASE'S RECIPES.

136

then drop back to the 3^, or it may be to 15 or 20 drops, to keep a little

ful;

action on the liver until it will continue its secretion of bile, producing natural

colored stools.

—

Remarks. As there are persons who cannot take pills, and others also who

prefer laxative medicines in liquid form, as well as many whose livers need a

mild medicine so it can be continued for some time to overcome the inactivity

of the liver, etc., such persons will find this recipe to " fill the bill" in all these

little

Hence, this will be found a very valuable substitute for pills.

cases.

A

oil of

wintergreen may be put in as a flavor and to hide the bitter taste,

if

desired.

5. Liquid Physic for Constipated and Weakly Women and

Children.— Fl. ext. of butternut, 2 ozs. tinct. of aloes, 5 drs. comp. tinct.

of cardamon, 1 oz.; simple syrup, 4 oz. Mix. Dose — According to age of

;

;

children, from 1 to 3 tea-spoonfuls in the morning is the best time to give to

For weak constiknew to use this preparation was in

no operation before.

children, and repeat next morning,

if

pated women, the physician whom I

first

the habit of triturating calomel, 10 grs., with 100 grs. of the sugar of milk,

and dividing into 10 powders; then giving 1 powder at 10 in the evening, and

at 2 in the morning, followed by 1 or 2 tea-spoonfuls of this liquid physic, which

carries off all otherwise

ill

effects of the calomel,

arouses the action of the

Those in favor of using

calomel will undoubtedly be satisfied to use it in this manner; the trituration,

or thoroughly rubbing the calomel, or any other medicine, with sugar of milk,

divides it into more minute particles and then it takes less to have the desired

effect.

Of course, this liquid physic can be taken without the calomel by

doubling the dose. See the remarks closing tlie subject of " Jaundice," for the

Since writing this

author's experience and opinion of calomel in small doses.

I have given the twentieth of a grain calomel pill with entire satisfaction,

liver

and overcomes the tendency to constipation.

arousing the action of the liver.

6.

Pills for Constipation—Very Successful.

grs.; solid ext. of

nux vomica, 20 grs.;

thoroughly and divide into 50 pills.

Dose

solid ext.

— One

—Pulverized

pill only;

—The doctor says this

cure the difficulty.

stipation.

Mix

never more than 1

pill for a dose, at bedtime every night until cured or all taken.

Remarks.

aloes, 40

belladonna, 15 grs.

is the best thing he knows,

Dr. T. B. King.

and pretty sure to

I have used it with success in one case of long standing con-

who was pretty well run down in strength, but with this

and a 2 gr. pill of quinine 3 times daily, for a month, she has

It was a lady

pill at night,

enjoyed an excellent condition of health now for several months. Jf they fail

to touch the spot, 3^^ gr. of podophyllin, or calomel, as one prefers, may be

added to each pill; neither will be required unless it may be for an occasional

case of constipation which has withstood all otlier remedies.

GOUT—

Cured by Garlic— The London Truth makes the following

remarks upon the garlic as a specific (sure cure) for gout. It is amusing, and

Is, no doubt, valuable: "Many people would be overjoyed to pay large sums

for a specific for gout. I will give them for nothing a sure but simple cure. A

TREATMENT OF DISEASES.

137

friend of mine had chalkstones on his fingers so bad that he might have marked

the trees in Windsor

lialf

Park with them.

specialists in Europe he was advised by an old

After consulting almost all the

woman (some old women know

more than half of us doctors) to try a clove of garlic (a clove of garlic means

one small bulb from a cluster) night and morning. He did so, and the chalk-

No doubt such a cure involves the social duty of

an exceedingly high mountain, or going to sea, alone,

in a yacht; but it is worth even the penalty of absolute seclusion to get rid of

stones totally disappeared.

retiring to the summit of

chalkstones."

1.

(See next recipe.)

PURIFYING THE BLOOD— Safest Way by the Use of

Onions. — Sherley Dare, in answering correspondents through the Blade House'

hold, says to "A.

E. "W.," of Waterloo:

"The safest and quickest prescription

for clearing the blood is to eat a raw onion, finely minced, at breakfast; the whole

common sized onion is enough, and a dose of charcoal or ground coffee,

and brushing the teeth, will deodorize the breath. The onion can be taken

with salt and vinegar as a salad. Consumptives find this of benefit."

Remarks. I have much more faith in the onion as an alterative, than I

have in the idea that the charcoal or powdered coffee, even with the brushing of

the teeth, will remove the odor of onions from the breath but what of that?

let the "bref" smell of garlic; if onions will do what they are here credited

with, they are certainly more valuable than is generally set down to their credit;

but I remember of once being told by a gentleman that a moderate sized onion

minced and eaten at each meal, with the salt and vinegar, as above mentioned,

would cure dyspepsia. I have no doubt of their utility, both as an alterative

upon the blood and as a tonic to the stomach; not one is eaten when ten ought

of a

—

;

to be.

2.

Roasted Onions— As a Poultice to Boils, Inflammation of

the Bowels, etc.

—A poultice of roasted onions applied to

etc., hastens suppuration,

boils, tvunors,

and are often applied as "drafts" to the feet, and I

have heard, from the old women, of their being applied in excessive fevers, by

mashing or pounding onions and placing them under the arms and upon the

bowels or other parts swollen from extensive inflanomation (to be changed

often), and they are very valuable indeed.

3. Onions, Their Value as Food.— Onions contain 25 to 30^ (*, «.,

25 to 80 parts in 100) of solid substance, when dried; while potatoes, even, do

not average 25^; but from some peculiarity of the onion its nourishing properties more than double those of the potato, and in some cases nearly treble it;

hence its value as food may now be the better understood, and without regard

to its peculiar flavor, the onion should be much more eaten than it is.

If health

is desirable,

1.

eat onions.

STOMACH BITTERS, OR ALTERATIVE. — Culver's

physic, root, and wahoo, bark of the root, each, IJ^ ozs. prickly ash bark and

poke root, each,

oz.

Peruvian bark, the best red unground, wild cherry

bark and anise seed, each, 1 oz. blue-flag, yellow-dock, dandelion and pleurisy

roots, known also as white root {asdepias tuberosa), with our home yellow parilla

;

%

;

;

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138

and Honduras sarsaparilla and golden seal roots, each, 1 oz. water, 1 gal.

good whiskey (if there is good (?) whiskey), 1 qt. DrRECTiONS Have all the roots and barks ground coarsely if you buy the dry articles

of the druggist, and if you use the green ones, gathered yourself, use half as much

more, and even twice as much will do no harm; bruise them with a mallet or

hammer, and steep all in the water 3 or 4 hours, covered; then strain and press

out all the virtue, and when cool, strain again to get rid of the fine sediment;

add the alcohol, or whiskey, and if it lacks any of 1 gal. make it up with wineworked cider, or whiskey. Bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose According

to the size and robustness of the person, take from 1 to 2 table-spoonfuls a

;

\

alcohol, 1 pt., or

—

—

If costive, or considerable dyspeptic disturbances

short time before each meal.

of the stomach, see remarks and further directions below.

Remarks and Further Directions if at all Co&tim.

II.

—In such cases take

a quart of this bitters and add J^ dr. of the alcoholic ex. of mandrake, dissolved

nicely in the bitters by rubbing in a cup with a tea-spoon; pour ofiE into the

Dose

bottle and put on more, as it is slow to dissolve.

—This can only be taken

from 1 to 2 tea-spoon fuls 3 times daily, more or less, to keep the

bowels easy. The mandrake is very gentle in its cathartic and laxative properin doses of

but it is very certain.

ties,

If dyspeptic, take a pint bottle and pour into it fl. exs. of leptandra

and blue-flag, each, 1 dr.; and fl. ex. of balmony, 3^ oz., and also iodide of

potash, 25 grs. and fill the bottle with the No. 1 Bitters, which has no manIII.

,

drake in it.

Dose

—Then take 1 table- spoonful for a dose, just before meals

and at bed-time; and if the urine is scanty or high-colored, 2 drs. each of fl.

exs. of buchu and uva ursi may also be put in.

Dose The same, as with the

above bitters as a base, almost any condition can be met.

—

1.

tinct.

DIARRHEA COMPOUND.— Compound spirits of lavender and

of rhubarb, each, 1 oz. laudanum, 3 drs.

;

Dose— One tea-spoonful every hour or two,

;

oil of cinnamon, 10 drops; mix.

for

an

adult, as needed, until

relieved ; then 2 or 3 times a day only, for a day or two.

Remedy

2. Loose Bowels, Simple

for.— For loose bowels, not

of long standing nor very severe, the following powder will prove effectual and

I have used it many times.

Powdered opium and tannin, each,

Mix thoroughly and divide into 10 powders. Dose— For an adult, 1

satisfactory.

5 grs.

powder every 4 hours, or 3, or even every 2 hours, if needed to control the condition; children of 8 to 12 years, half a powder only, and of a less age above

2 years

3.

For Infantile Diarrhea.— That is, for children at the breast or

less than 2 years old:

^

gr.,

—

— one-fourth only of a powder.

Powdered rhubarb, 10 grs.

;

calomel, 1 gr.; morphine,

and divide into 10 powders, 1 powder for a dose.

No danger of saliva-

ting a child at the breast.

4.

Diarrhea of an Exhaustive Character, Dr. T. B. King's

Remedy for.— Blue mass and pulverized ipecac, of each 3 grs.

prepared

chalk and pulverized rhubarb, each 10 grs.; pulverized opium, 3 to Id gra.

Mix and make into 10 pills. Directions, Dose, etc.— For adults, bad cases^

;

TREA TMENT OF DISEASES.

139

ase the 10 grs. of the opium and give 1 pill every 3 hours fot children and

opium should be used; small children, only half

;

«light cases, only 3 to 5 grs. of

^ pill cut up and dissolved in molasses will be

sufficient for a

dose, to be

repeated in 3 or 4 hours, as needed.

Diarrhea, Simple Home Remedy for.— The journals of

5.

late

have said considerable about the use of pure cider vinegar in diarrhea. It was

started, so far as I know, by T. E. Stellwagen, in an edition of Coleman's

"Dental Surgery." Dose For an adult about 2 ozs., or 4 tablespoonfuls,

tvithout water; for a child of 1 year, a tablespoonful with a little water.

Remarks. Its effect is said to be to check the colicky pains at once, to

felieve the chills and cramps, if any present, and to give a feeling of warmth

and comfort over the surface

I trust it will prove as reliable as reported.

It

is claimed to have been satisfactory even in long standing cases.

—

—

DYSENTERY — Successful Remedy for.— Laudanum and

1.

Directions, Dose, etc.

ipecac.

—For an adult

laudanum, 20 drops,

which is to be given half an

first give

to prepare the stomach so it shall retain the ipecac,

hour after, in 20 gr. doses, repeated every 6 hours until cured.

The first dose

may be vomited, or partially so, as this article is well understood to possess this

—of vomiting—but

property

tolerate (bear)

it.

it is

also known that the stomach can be trained to

It also acts as a

mild laxative, tonic, and stimulant, to the

coats of the stomach and intestines, producing slight sweating, moist and pliable

skin, and thereby reducing the fever, controlling also the

tenesmus (pain and

griping) of the rectum at the time of the passage, almost if not wholly reliev-

ing this difficulty soon after its use is commenced.

Dysentery, Diarrhea and Incipient Cholera— Milk a Speci-

2.

fic for,

—

It is reported through the Milk Journal,

of London, Eng., that in the

East Indies, 1 pt. of warm milk every 4 hours, will check the most violent of

the above complaints. The milk must not be boiled, but just hot enough to drink

comfortably. Boiled milk, contrary to our American custom, is not to be

used.

NERVOUS HEADACHE— Such as People Used to be Bled

for.

mix.

—Iodide of potash, 2

tinct of gelsemium, 2

pure water, 2

Dose — tea-spoonful once in 2 to 4 hours until relieved.

Remarks. — This

a prescription of a physician of Grand Rapids Mich., for

drs. ;

ozs.

drs. ;

1

is

a lady who called upon

him to be bled for the difficulty, according to what she

But he made this prescription for her and it relieved

her.

The next season she called upon myself for the same purpose, at the same

time showing me the prescription, which I changed to bromide of potassium, in

the same quantity for the iodide, which she took with the same success.

I prefer the bromide, as I think its action upon the nerves more satisfactory.

had been accustomed to.

2.

Nervous Headache, New Remedy for. — Salicylate of soda,

10 grs., every 3 hours for an adult, followed next day in 5 to 8 gr. doses.

long standing, continue

1

or 2 doses daily for a few days longer.

If of

Taken by

dissolving in water.

Remarks.

—This was given in the

Scientific American by a celebrated physi*

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140

cian who gave a case of a boy of 16 years, who had had nervous headache sev-

week from the time he was 6 years old, entirely cured by this

remedy, and at the time of the report he had been free from the disease sevSee next item also for other uses of this new remedy.

eral months.

eral days each

TOWSILITIS — Salicylate of Soda for— Also as a Gargle in

TJlcerated Cases.

— Given in 10 gr. doses, every 2 to 4 hours, internally, and

is also used as a gargle in ulcerated cases.

Strength of gargle is not given; but

I should say, 5 to 10 grs. to the oz. of water, according to the degree of ulceration.

Remarks.

—I certainly expect much from

its

use upon a fair trial, and say

to all who need it, try it.

ULCERATING TEETH OR SORE GUMS — Dr. Mason's

Remedy.— Take what the homeopaths call the "third decimal trituration of

mercurius" (quick-silver). [Quicksilver was named mercurius after the god

Mercury; it is also known as hydrargyrum, from another god or deity, worshiped by the ancients. These deities were held in higher estimation by them,

as compared with other deities, from the fact that mercury or quicksilver was

held, long ago, to be a very important article or medicine in the treatment of

But my school of medicine (eclecdiseases, as compared with other remedies.

tic) generally claims and believes that it has been proven not only of little value

but to have been one of the greatest curses to humanity that ever found a place

Of late, however, I am led to believe the

in the annals or history of medicine.

harm to have arisen from its over-doses and abuse in giving it for everything

See my remarks following "Jaundice, Liver

rather than in the article itself.

Complaint, etc."] Dose— The size of a wheat kernel, every half hour or hour,

until cured, which will be in 2 or 3 days.

Remarks. Dr. Mason, in writing to me, said: " Doctor you know that I

am not a homeopath, but I know, after having used the above in my practice as

a dentist for over fifteen years for ulcerating teeth, that it is a good remedy.

In the winter of 1878-79 I extracted some teeth for my wife; and, in common

Although it was nearly 2 days after it comparlance, she took cold in the jaw.

menced aching before I prepared the remedy, the pain entirely ceased in less

than 2 days from the time she began its use. But let no one put it off, as I did,

a stitch in time,' etc."

through pressure of business

In case no homeopath or druggist is near, who keeps this triturated prepa

ration, see " Diphtheria, Sore Throat, etc.," (Dr. Mason's, or homeopathic rem

—

—

'

edy), for the manner of trituration, use the quicksilver instead of the biniodide

of mercury, as given in that case.

—

Ejects a Dime from the Trachea.— Lorenzo

1. VOMITING

Hubbard, M. D., reports a case to the Pacific Med. and Surg. Journal as follows:

"Carpenter Simcs, a private in Company A, First U. S. Cavalry, while

playing with a dime, by tossing it into his mouth, accidentally threw it far back

into the pharynx, where, coming in contact with the ]wsterior nasal orifices, it

excited a strong disposition to sneeze.

The spasmodic inspiration which followed drew tlie piece through the glottis (the opening into the windpipe) into

trachea

(windpipe),

and

subsequent

inspirations

the

lodged it at the point of the

TREATMEMT OF DISEASES.

141

By inflating the lungs, and then making a

bifurcation of the right bronchus.

strong effort at expiration, the piece would rise into the trachea, but when it

reached the glottis suffocation was so imminent he was forced to allow it to

descend. When he first made his situation known to me, three hovlrs after the

occurrence of the accident, he said he could feel the ' bit resting directly

under the right nipple, and that the parts at this point had become quite sore.

" While the piece was yet movable, and had not yet found a lodgement, I

determined to try the experiment of vomiting, with the hope that in the spasmodic effort of retching and coughing it might be ejected. In this I was not

disappointed, for in the very first effort it was thrown out to the distance of

bit with which

several feet, with considerable force.

I also send you the

this strange experiment was made, supposing that possibly the case might

'

'

'

'

'

interest our society.

Remarks.

— have given

I

this to show not only the danger of thus throwing

pieces of money into the mouth, which I have often seen done, but also to say

it is dangerous to

allow small children to have small pieces of

with, for the mouth is about the

first place they put it;

money to play

but if a piece lodges in

the throat, no time should be lost in trying one of the quick emetics found in

"Accidental Poisoning."

2.

Vomiting and Watery Discharges, to Check in Cholera.

—Black pepper, in powder, fine table

spoonfuls; hot water,

% tumbler.

salt,

Dose

each 1 teaspoonful

;

vinegar, 5 tea-

—A table-spoonful every

minutes, as circumstances required, speedily checked vomiting,

5, 10 or 15

abated the

watery discharges and removed the cramps. It succeeded in many cases where

every other means had failed.

Remarks. This was during the Cincinnati cholera in 1849-50-51, when the

eclectics saved hundreds of their patients in this disease, while other branches of

This is no fancy statement, simply for effect,

the profession lost most of theirs.

but is susceptible of proof, and it was by simple common sense remedies, like

—

this, that it was done.

1.

SCROFULA, PILES AND RHEUMATISM.— Cure for.—

Sulphur, cream of

tartar,

nitre (saltpeter),

and licorice root, equal parts of

each, all finely pulverized, and put into just honey enough to mix like mush.

Dose One tea-spoonful i^ hour before eating, 3 times a day, for 3 days then

—

;

But after the first 3 days, 3^

tea-spoonful doses will be as much as can be taken without making the bowels

too loose. It may be made into pill form by using only honey enough to

dampen. Dose In this way 3 good sized pills, before each meal, as the other.

Remarks. This was communicated to me by a sister, at that time living in

Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, from the fact that a young girl, a Miss Conner, had been

cured by it, who had been under the doctors care for over a year, without benefit.

Her breast and throat were covered with ulcers, deep and penetrating, so

when pressed up on one side of the neck, matter would ooze out of the other

side.

Under these circumsfances, the girl's mother (the wife of a barber) paid

$10 for this recipe, which cured the girl in a few weeks. At the time my sister

sent me this recipe, six years after the cure, the girl had had no returning symptoms of the disease. But the scars, my sister said, she would always carry. A

child had also been cured by the use of the same, whose head was a solid scab

cease 3 days, continuing until a cure is effected.

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My sister had obtained the recipe

at the time the treatment was commenced.

for the purpose of curing bleeding piles upon herself, which

had reduced her

And it was as successful with the

strength very greatly by the loss of blood.

I have had no opportunity of using it except for

rheumatism, which I have cured with it. I believe much good will be derived

by its use whenever needed, as an alterative, for the value of sulphur and

cream of tartar have been long known as alteratives in rheumatism. Why

should not the combination prove valuable in scrofula? I have no doubt it has,

and that it will continue to do so, most effectually. The licorice I look upon

as merely to improve the taste.

piles as in the otlier cures.

Scrofula, White Swelling, etc., Salve for.— Scrape sweet elder

2.

(inner bark), bitter-sweet (roots and twigs are used), and mullein leaves, each, a

good handful; boil these, (the roots and twigs, being bruised,) in a little water;

then put in half as much golden seal root, and stew all in two table-spoonfuls

of freshl^r churned and unsalted butter, not level spoonfuls, but as you would

take them up heaping, from rather soft butter, and an equal quantity of mutton tallow. Stew till the water is all out, and the mass crisped, or dry, but not

burned; then strain, and put back into the skillet, and add half as much beeswax, as of tallow and half as much pine pitch as of the beeswax. Directions For white swelling spread on a cloth, and apply; for scrofulous sores

put on cotton, and put into the sores, or openings, if any, otherwise the same

—

as for white swellings.

Remarks.

— should apply this salve while taking No.

I

1,

internally, as I

be found valuable for all purposes, as

an ointment, rather than a salve, if not made too stiff with the beeswax. As

think

it

will hasten recovery.

It will

an ointment, use but very little beeswax.

PLIABLE COLLODION— Or Artificial Skin—For Abrasions,

Burns, Sores, etc. — A French journal gives us the following plan of making collodion pliable, for all purposes where water may come in contact with the

spot, as upon the face, hands, lips, etc.: Collodion, 30 grammes; castor -oil and

soft turpentine (Venice turpentine or pine pitch), each 50 centigrammes, mix.

—

Remarks. As a gramme is so nearly 15)4. grains (being actually 15 and

334 of 1,000 parts of a grain, we call it 15}^ grains,) and as a centigramme

1-lOOth of a gramme, in the 50 centigrammes we get nearly 8 grains,

hence we say: Collodion, 1 oz. and castor-oil and soft turpentine, each 8 grs.

And thus we have the recipe Americanized, so that it can be filled understandingly by anyone, or druggist.

Apply with a brush.

It will be found

is the

;

upon any injured parts, scratch, bruise, etc., as by

putting on two or three times, as the first coat dries, it forms an artificial skin

quite satisfactory to apply

over the sore.

1.

CHILBLAINS, FROST BITES, ETC.—Valuable Remedy for. — Spirits of turpentine and sulphuric acid, each \i oz. olive oil, 1)^

;

oz. ; mix;

shake and apply frequently.

2. Spirits of Turpentine, 1 oz. ammonia, }4 oz., with as much

camphor gum as this will dissolve, used as a liniment, will cure these hateful

;

things.

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3.

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To Believe the intense itching; 2 or 3 bathings of the parts, warm-

ing in before the fire, or strong alum water, gives rehef,

4.

An Ointment made by rubbing as much tincture of cantharides

up (any druggist will prepare a small

box of it, for about 15 cts.). Bathe the feet in warm water, wipe and rub

this on at bed-time. I cured a bad case of 6 years standing, in 3 or 3 applications,

and afterwards cured several other cases.

into any simple "cerate," as it will take

5.

Frost Bites, Remedies for.

—The Lansing (Mich.,) Republican

It

recently gave the following, as to the management and cure of frost bites.

says: " Extract the frost by the application of ice-water till the part is pliable,

but

made of equal parts of

heat touch it; then apply a salve

let no artificial

hog's lard and gunpowder, rubbed together until

than 24 hours the frozen parts will be well."

it

forms a paste, and in les3

Chilblains, Warranted Cure for.— Olive oil, spirits of turpenaqua ammonia, and oil of peppermint, each, J^ oz. Mix, and anoint night

6.

tine,

and morning.

to cure every case.

warranted

Is

This was given

me on

"experience," also.

WORMS-REMEDIES, VERMIFUGES.

There are seldom found but three

varieties of

worms in the human

intestines.

I.

The principal, or most common one, is the long, round worm, found in

the small intestines.

II.

The second variety is the small, round, or pin-worm, so called because

scarcely ever longer or larger than a pin.

These are chiefly found in the

rectum, and known to be there from an intolerable itching.

III.

The last, or third variety, is the tape-worm, called by physicians

tcBnia solium (from icsnia, tape, and solus, alone); for, as a general thing, there is

only one of them found to annoy the patient.

The remedies for them, I shall

give in the order in which I have mentioned them.

First:

—

1, The Long, Round Worm. Pink and senna were the old " standby," for the common long worm, followed by a cathartic but the following

combination is better, as it has the cathartic in combination, and as the good

old saying is, " kills two birds with one stone."

;

Pink root and Senna, each i^ oz. cream of tartar, 1 dr. (1 tea-spoonful);

dr.

cardamon seeds, 1 dr. and ext. of licorice, or powdered licorice-root, J^ oz. Mix, and pour on J^ pt. of boiling water and steep

;

pulverized jalap,

^

;

;

y^ to 1 hour; and, according to the age of the child, give 1 to 2 table-spoonfuls

every hour until the worms are expelled, or a brisk action of the bowels is

obtained.

Repeat every day or two, until you are satisfied there are no more

worms present, or see that they have been expelled, as it does not always, but

generally, expels

2.

them on the first trial.

The Eclectic Vermifuge — The Latest and Least

tasteful.

Dis-

— Santonin, 30 grs. white sugar, 50 grs. Derections—Rub together

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evenly,

and divide into 10 powders.

Dose

— ©ive 1 powder an hour before

supper aud 1 at bed-time; next day 1 powder before each meal and at bed-time,

and the following day the same, which uses up aU the powders. Next morning

take an active cathartic, to carry off the worms.

Remarks. I recently took this remedy in just this way, realizing that I, at

nearly 68 years of age, had them. For the cathartic I took 2 blue papers of

—

seidlitz

action.

powders and 1 white paper, to be sure and get quick and thorough

I have enjoyed better

It did act quickly, and brought them away.

health since.

3.

Worms, Allopathic Vermifuge for.— Santonin and white sugar

(or sugar of milk), each 10 grs.; calomel and ipecac, each 1 gr.

—

Directions

then rub in the two last, and divide into 10

For child, 1 powder, night and morning, till all are talien;

Bub the two first well together;

powders.

Dose

—

then an active cathartic, unless the worms pass off freely by this time. I should

give a cathartic of cream of tartar, or some mild one, at any rate. This is

the favorite, of an old friend of mine, of the allopathic school.

4. Vermifuge or Vermicide—Extraordinary.— Dr. A. S. Sweet,

of Southhold, L. I., informs the readers of the Brief ih.3X he gave Mrs. C. the

following mixture as a vermifuge: Santonin, 16 grs.; fl. ex. of pink, 160 drops;

—

mix. Dose A tea-spoonful morning and night. She

simple syrup, 2 ozs.

gave it about equally between 4 children of her own and 1 of a neighbor's.

The result was the expulsion of 67 worms. As having a possible bearing upon

;

the question whether worms cause any special symptoms by their presence in

the intestines. Dr. Sweet says that the child for which the vermifuge was particularly desired had, previous to taking

it,

several attacks of convulsions.

They ceased with the expulsion of the worms.

Remarks.

— Any person of common sense would eay the worms caused the

Dr. Sweet says

convulsions, else their removal would not have stopped them.

nothing about giving any cathartic; but as the Brief is taken only by physicians,

he leaves it to their judgment to direct it. I would say, give an active cathartic

on the third or fourth day, whether any worms have passed or not. In all

cases, after expulsion of worms, give a tonic to build up and strengthen the

general system, which will also strengthen the bowels, and thereby make it less

For, as a general thing, it is only the

liable for another "crop" of worms.

weakly children who are troubled with worms, although sometimes adults havo

them, as in my own case.

Pin Worms, Remedy. —A

Mrs C. " made inquiry in the Toledo,

remedy for jnn-worms, receiving the following answers: A

Mrs. "A. P. A." (a pity that so many writers are ashamed of their names),

says: If "Mrs. C." will give the child a tea made of common spearmint, botlj

using it as a drink and as an injection, I am confident it will suffer no more

from pin-worms, as I have known a very bad case, of long standing to be cured by

this remedy, when many others had been tried without success.

If one tria]

does not cure, repeat, as the remedy is harmless.

Remarks. The spearmint is safe, and quite a diuretic, with its other valu*

5.

O., Blade, for a

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able properties.

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