To Prevent Bleeding,

5. Flesh Wounds and Presli Cuts

Relieve Pain, Etc. Everybody is liable to be cut or to receive other flesh

wounds, away from surgical or veterinary aid; hence, they ought to know how

—

to proceed to save their

own, or the life of a friend, or beast, by exercise of

common judgment.

I.

If there is a flow of blood, close the wound with the hand and hold it

firmly together, so as to check the flow, and keep it thus until a bandage can be

obtained or stitches can be taken, if necessary, and the final bandaging is

Bathing well with cold water, and keeping bandages wet with it, is

applied.

the latest method of treatment.

I

have known, however, one-half whiskey to

be used for this purpose, and believe it to be the best.

If the wound is painful, take a pan of burning coals and sprinkle upon

II.

them common brown sugar, and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In a

minute or two the pain will be allayed, and the recovery proceed rapidly.

Remarks. If the burning of wool will relieve pain and prevent lock-jaw

from punctured wounds, why should not sugar do the same? Although I cannot understand the why nor the wherefore, yet I still believe that both the

smoke of wool and sugar have cured many cases, otherwise these items would

never have been reported.

—

6.

Wounds, Hemorrhage or Bleeding from. — It is also claimed

that bleeding

may be stopped, on man or beast, by binding on a mixture of

equal parts of wheat flour and salt; of course they are not to be wet, but evenly

mixed, before binding on

1.

—the blood does the wetting.

NOSE BLEED AND HICCOUGHS — Novel, but Certain

Remedy. — The Scientific American reports the following novel plan for check-

ing bleeding at the nose: The best remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given by

Dr. Gleason in one of his lectures, is in the vigorous motion of the jaws as if

In the case of a child a wad of paper

should be placed in its mouth, and the child should be instructed to chew it

hard. It is the motion of the jaws that stops the flow of blood.

This remedy

is so very simple that many will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has never

in the act of mastication (chewing).

been known to fail in a single instance, even in very severe cases.

Remarks. About the time of writing upon the subject I received a letter

from a Mrs. Harlan, of Hutton, Coles Co., 111., wherein she confirmed the

above as to bleeding from the nose; and by the additional point of pressing the

fingers into the ears, with the motion as if chewing, it also cures hiccough.

And now I have an endorsement of my own as to its value in hiccough, for I,

at that time, had a little granddaughter living in the family who had been often

troubled with hiccoughs, and only a day or two after the receipt of Mrs. Harlan's letter the child again had an attack of them, and in two minutes, at most,

from the time I directed her and showed her how to do it, according to Mrs,

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Harlan's plan of putting the fingers into the ears, and then "chew," the child

was cured.

She has had no further attack as yet, a little over three years, while

before they had held her an hour or two, and sometimes longer, and it occurred

quite frequently.

It

seems to have been an absolute cure.

cluded in her letter what she

palpitation of the heart.

Mrs. Harlan

calls a simple cure for nose-bleed, hiccough

in-

and

I will give them in her own words, as follows:

—

Nose-Bleed, Hiccough, and Palpitation of the Heart

Mrs. Harlan's Cure for. I. A simple cure for nose-bleed is to crowd the

2.

—

fingers tight into the ears and chew, pressing the teeth well together, as if chew-

ing food.

II.

It is said to be a cure also for a persistent

hiccough.

[This is what I

tried with the grandchild.]

III.

Palpitation of the Heart.

repeatedly,

—Hold the breath as long as possible and

I have found it an almost certain remedy.

And when it failed to

stop the paroxysm at first it was relieved by it, and, after a time, stopped.

Remarks.

—Mrs. Harlan

is

undoubtedly correct in the matter of relief, or

cure, of "Palpitation;" for, in holding the breath, the blood is not invigorated

by the absorption of oxygen in the air by its passage through the lungs, and

hence the blood does not pass so freely nor quickly to the heart, and, therefore,

There is

its excessive action soon diminishes, and is finally quieted altogether.

Mrs. H. had used these plans in her own family

certainly philosophy in this.

and among her friends, and sent them to me, as she expressed it, " for the good

of the world."

3. Hiccough, French Remedy for Children—Instantaneous

Relief. According to the Lyons (France) Medicale, Dr. Grellety says:

" I have observed that hiccoughs in children are immediately stopped by giving them a lump of sugar saturated with table vinegar. The same remedy was

tried on adults with similar instantaneous success."

The sugar plan is confirmed by the following from Henry Tucker, M. D.,

in the South Medical Record, under the heading of " A Specific for Singulturs"

—

(the physicians', or the Latin,

name for hiccough):

" This very common affection, of infants and children especially, has a specific remedy, at least one which I have never known to fail.

Moisten granulated sugar with cider vinegar; give to an infant from a few grains to a teaspoonful.

The effect is almost instantaneous, and the dose seldom needs to bfi>

repeated.

I have used it for all ages, from infants of a few months old to people on the down-hill side of life."

4. Another writer puts it in the following manner: " Take 3 or 4 swal

lows of sweetened vinegar."

Remarks. Not much different, except in quantity. I should try this il

—

Dr. Grellety's or Dr. Tucker's lump of sugar did not succeed.

—

—

5. Hiccough, a Cure for by Pressure

French. The latest

French discovery as to the cure of hiccoughs is given in La Scalpel, as follows:

A very easy cure for a continued hiccough, sometimes complicated with spasms

of the air-passage to the lungs, is introduced bj' Rostau, and highly recommended by Deghillaye, of Mons, France. It consists in placing the hand flat

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upon the pit of the stomach, immediately below the cartilage forming the end

of the breast-bone, and making firm pressure. Should this prove unsuccessful,

place a firm roll of muslin on the same place, securing it by a bandage bound

tightly around the body.

In an hour this may be removed, and it will be

found that the hiccough has entirely disappeared.

Remarks. The cure in this case is by the pressure, preventing the spasmodic action of the diaphragm, which is the cause of hiccoughs.

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BILIOUSNESS, BILIOUS FEVER, FEVER AND AGUE,

CHILLS AND FEVER, INTERMITTENT FEVER,

PERIODIC FEVER, ETC.

BILIOUSNESS. —The symptoms are too well known to need describ.

ing.

etc.,

If your bones ache, and you feel languid, your mouth tastes unpleasant,

you are bilious, and if you don't remedy it soon your complexion will be

sallow.

Cholagogue or Bilious Tonic— Quinine, 1 dr.; oil of wintergreen, 1

teaspoonful;

oil

peppermint, 5 drops;

of

oil

of lemon, 15 drops; alcohol,

i^ pt. sulphuric acid, 30 drops.

Mix well, then add red Peru3^ pt. water,

vian bark, finely pulverized, 2 ozs. rheubarb root, also finely pulverized,

;

;

;

Those who are acted upon

by cathartics can not bear more than half of this quantity of rheubarb.

Let such have it made accordingly the object of its use is to just keep the

2 ozs.

;

simple syrup, or molasses, to make all 1 qt.

easily

—

bowels solvent, not loose like diarrhoea.

The quinine, oils and acid should be put into the alcohol first, then the

water, and afterwards the bark and rheubarb, and then the syrup; or what

would be a little more palatable, would be to steep the Peruvian bark and

rheubarb root in as little water as will answer, then strain off into the mixture

and steep again, to get all the strength, by pressing out the second time; then

make up the quart with syrup, as this avoids the sediment of the bark and root

in taking off the medicine, as some people object to taking the medicine with

the powders in it.

It may be taken at once, if well shaken; or, if shaken

2 or 3 times daily for a week, after that it may be taken without shaking, as

the strength of the Peruvian bark and rheubarb will by that time be extracted.

Dose

— For an adult,

1

or 2 tea-spoonfuls 4 times daily, at meals and bed-time;

for a child of 12 years, half dose.

If very bilious take a full cathartic dose of

rheubarb or such other cathartic medicine as you are in the habit of using, or

prefer, to move the bowels freely.

Remarks.

one, and

—This will be found a very valuable tonic in

absolutely the best

all

cases requiring

known remedy for biliou.sness.

If a person

inclined to be bilious will take this every spring and fall, they will not be

is

It will break up 99-100 of all the agues and remittent fevers in a few

days; if not, repeat the cathartic, and continue the Cholagogue until the work

troubled.

is

accomplished

— never try to "wear out the ague";

it will

either wear

you

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you the woi'se for wear."

87

Repeat at intervals of a week, 2 or 3

times; and in nearly every case a permanent cure will be effected, if the medi-

cine is taken for 3 or 4 days at each repetition.

—

[Note. This is not an easy remedy to prepare. For a good many it will

be cheaper to send $1.00 to the Chase Medicine Co., Detroit, Mich., and get a

bottle already prepared.]

— Symptoms. — The attack is generally

Some writers say it has no premonitory symptoms;

Bilious Remittent Fever

sudden and well marked.

others, that it has.

Tlie more general understanding is, that for a day or two,

or even longer, before the onset, there is a sense of languor and debility, slight

headache, lack of appetite, furred tongue, bitter taste in the mouth

morning, pains in the joints and general uneasiness.

in

the

The formal onset is nearly always marked by a distinct chill or rigor,

sometimes slight and brief; at other times severe and prolonged. The chill

may begin at the feet, or about the shoulder blades, or in the back, and thence

run like small streams of cold water poured in every direction through the

whole body. There is generally but one well-marked chill, the returns of the

paryoxysms of fever being seldom, after the first, preceded by the cold stage.

During the hot stage the pulse is up to one hundred and twenty, or one

hundred and thirty. There are pains in the head, back and limbs, of a most

distressing kind.

The tongue is generally covered with a yellowish, or dirty white fur; and

is frequently parched brown or nearly

in bad cases, in the advanced stage,

black in the center, and red at the edges.

There is no appetite for food, and

generally nausea and vomiting; and usually there is pain and tenderness in the

epigastrium.

The bowels are at first costive, but afterwards become loose, and

there are frequent evacuations of dark, offensive matter.

Causes.

— This disease

is produced

position of vegetable matter.

It is

by malarial exhalations from the decommost prevalent in hot climates, and in

the summer and autumn.

—

Treatment. If the fever be in the formative stage, and has not fully

developed itself, give an emetic (see page 180), and follow it with a mild

cathartic— rochelle salts, 2 drs.; bi-carbonate of soda, 2 scruples; water, J^ pt.

Mix. To this mixture add 35 grains of tartaric acid, and take the whole

foaming. This is the recipe for Seidlitz powders.

If the disease be already developed, sponge the body all over several times

a day with cold or tepid water, according to the feelings of the patient, and

To moderate the fever give 3 to 10-drop doses of tincture

give cooling drinks.

or fluid extract of veratrum viride. The compound powder of Ipecac and

opium is a valuable preparation for the same purpose.

drink, if desired by the patient, or let him eat ice.

Give cold water as

When the headache is very severe, let wet cups be applied upon the

temples, or behind the ears; and the same

remedy to the pit of the stomach,

when there is great tenderness, is often desirable; though a mustard plaster

will sometimes do better.

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During the remissions of the fever, quinine and other tonics are to be

given, as in fever and ague.

AGrUE.— What is generally called ague is also known by all these names,

which mean one and the same thing. Doctors generally say " intermittent

fever," and what will cure it are also known as "anti-periodics." The two following recipes for ague originated with Dr. B. F. Humphreys, of Tyler, Texas,

He published them in the

as substitutes, or to be used instead of quinine.

Eclectic Medical Journal, more especially for the benefit of other

physichns;

but if they are good for physicians, and I know they are, to use upon their

patients and save the expense of quinine, they are as certainly good for the

people to have them prepared by druggists for their own use. I have confi-

dence in them, hence I give them. Dr. Humphreys gave the recipe for the

" solution" to make 16 pts. (2 gals.), so that physicians could make up enough

for a whole neighborhood; but I have reduced

it

by 16, so that families will

make only 1 pt. If desired to make in larger quantities, simply keep the same

proportions. The pills I will give for 240, as he gave them; if less are needed,

They are as follows:

to keep the proportions is all that is necessary.

1. Ague Solution, Pills and Liniment for— Without Quinine.

—

I.

Solution, or Br.

Humphreys' " Tip-Top Tonic."

— Sulphate of cin-

sulphate of strychnia, 2 grs.; tinct. of stillingia, J^ pt.; tinct. of

enonymus (wahoo), 4 ozs. tincts. of leptandra (Culver's physic) and of podochonia, 1 dr.

;

;

phyllum (mandrake), each 2 ozs. oil of wintergreen, to flavor, (15 or 20 drops,

only, in a little alcohol), and elixir of vitriol (aromatic sulphuric acid), to disDirections. Rub the sulphate of strychnia, first, in a

solve the sulphates.

mortar; then put in the sulphate of cinchonia, and rub together, and add to

;

—

them as much aromatic sulphuric acid as necessary to dissolve them; then put

into the bottle with the other articles, shake well, and it is ready for use.

Dose. For adults, 1 tea-spoonful 4 or 5 times daily. For a child, 3 times as

many drops as it is years old, same number of times daily as for adults.

Remarks Dr. Humphreys called this his "Calisaya Anti-Periodic: or,

Tip-Top Tonic," and considered it as cheap and efficient as anything that can be

got up. "Calisaya " is the name which the Indians of South America applied to

—

—

what we know as Peruvian bark; hence the Doctor applies it here, as he knew

physicans, for whom he was writing, would know what he meant, i. e., that

the sulphate of cinchonia and calisaya was made from the Peruvian bark.

all

2. Ague, or Chills and Fever — Simple Cure Without

Quinine. — H. Q. D. Brown, of Copiah Co., Miss., gives the following as a

"Take 1 pt. of cottoncertain and thoroughly tried cure for fever and ague:

and take warm 1 hour before the

Many persons will doubtless laugh at this simple remedy; but I have

seed; 2 pts. of water boiled to 1; strain

attack.

tried it effectually, and unhesitatingly say it is better than quinine, and could I

obtain the latter article at a dime a bottle, I would infinitely prefer the cottonseed tea. It will not only cure invariably, but permanently, and is not at all

unpleasant to the taste."

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Ague or " Chills " — Positive Cure, witli Quinine. — This

3.

receipt is from Dr. Joseph Spaiilding, of Lafayette, Ind., in answer to an inquiry

He says:

"Dear Madam: — You say 'don't prescribe whiskey nor quinine,' hut I will,

and I know whereof I speak, as I was a sufferer with the ague for three years,

from a lady through the Blade Household, which explains itself.

and this cured me, and I have not had a

and I am sure it will do as much for others. The toper

who takes his morning bitters out of this, will not want them a second time

from the same bottle.

I.

"A thorough cathartic. Now, I mean thorough when I say it.

" Two days after take quinine in 6 gr. doses every 4 to 6 hours, just as

II.

you can stand it, till you have missed a chill; then take the following:

Tonic Bitters, to Strengtiien and Tone up the System after Ague, oi

III.

in the malarial district of Indiana,

chill for five years;

—

Chills and Fever have been broken, or for General Use.

"Tinct. capsicum, 1 dr.;

and quinine, 1 oz. ; comp. tinct. of gentian, 1 oz. ; elixir cin

citrate of iron

chonia, 2 ozs.

;

Dose

whiskey, 5 ozs.

—Take

1

tablespoonful 3 times daily

just after meals."

The elixir of cinchonia is also known as " elixir of calisaya," or "elixir oJ

It is made as follows: Peruvian bark, 1 oz.;

bark," meaning, of Peruvian bark.

fresh orange peel,

14.

oz. ,

cinnamon bark, coriander seeds and angelica seeds,

each 3 drs. caraway and anise seeds, each 1 dr. brandy and water, as given

below; simple syrup, 10 ozs. Bruise or coarsely grind the bark and aromatics,

and treat them with brandy until 10 ozs. are obtained; then continue the percolation with equal parts of brandy and water, until 22 ozs. have been obtained;

;

;

then add the syrup to make 2 pts. tonic and cordial.

Remarks.

— I know that some people object to using quinine, believing that

it causes rheumatic

or other pains, etc.

,

but I am well satisfied that the pains, or

other difllculties supposed to come from the quinine, came from the disease, ot

the climate, and not from the use of the quinine.

It is not only a perfectly safe

remedy, but is indeed a valuable antiperiodic and strengthening medicine. It

can be obtained anjTvhere, and will cure ague everywhere, with only an occj»-

C

The position I have taken above, that it is the disease,

malaria in the system, that causes the pain in the bones, etc., and not the qu^

sional exception.

nine that does it, I have since seen, is also claimed to be the fact by some of ou?

most eminent pysicians.

Ague, or Chills and Fever — Certain Cure for. — Quinine

4.

31 grs.

;

aromatic sulphuric acid and laudanum, each, 31 drops; water, 3 ozs-

— A teaspoonful 3 times a day, before meals.

Remarks. — This was given me by Mrs. Catharine Baldwin, of Toledo, O..

Dose

formerly of Put-in-Bay, where she obtained it, and knew of its curing severai

of the most obstinate or long standing chronic cases, which " noiliing," as the

saying goes,

"would cure."

I have used it with success,

making onlV" this dif-

ference with the receipt: Using 40 grs. of the quinine and 40 (kops of the oil ov

vitriol

and laudanum, in 4 ozs. of water (to make the quantity a little roore);

then, for an adult, directing a tablespoonful three hours, two hours and ope hour,

before the chill should commence

—which will break

it.

After that, 1 tea-spoo}'*'

ful 3 times daily, just after meals, till all is taken, will cure most cases.

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90

5.

Ague Pills, Very Cheap and Very Effective, Without

Quinine.

— Chinoidine,

1 oz. ;

do vers powders, 3 drs.

;

piperine, 40 grs.

;

sub

carbonate of iron, 2^^ drs.; stiff mucilage of gum arabic sufficient to work

*nto pills, and mix very intimately and make into usual sized pills.

[The author

would say to make into 440 pills, to be sure to have 1 gr. of chinoidine in each

pill.]

Dose. Take 2 pills every 2 hours until 6 or 8 are taken, in the absence

of fever.

After the first day 2 pills 3 times a day, just before meals, in the

—

absence of chills or fever.

—

Remarks. This recipe is decidedly a good one, either as an ague cure or af

Chinoidine pills, however, in warm weather get soft and

a general tonic.

should, therefore, have plenty of powdered liquorice root among them to prevent their sticking together; but from this tendency the following, in liquid

form, may be preferable:

How

6. Chinoidine for Ague—

to Give It.— C. E. Ellis, M. D., of

Gooch's Mill, Mo., in answer to an inquiry of Dr. A. Barry, of Dresden, Tex.,

in The Brief, page 505, 1883, for " a convenient mode of administering chinoid" The following is a prescription used by

ine," made the following answer:

my father and myself with no dissatisfaction from any patient, except one colored woman, who complained of nausea after taking: Chinoidine, 2 ozs.;

alcohol, 1 pt. nitric acid, dilute (a formula druggists understand), 1 oz. aromatic syrup of rhei. (rhubarb), Sozs. water, 8 ozs. Mix. Dose. When dissolved, take 1 tea-spoonful before meals and bedtime.

If Dr. Barry will try

this mode of giving the chinoidine he will find it all I recommend it to be.

I

have used it a great deal, and I hope he may have as good success with it as I

have had,"

Remarks. Being so much cheaper than quinine is the main reason for its

use.

For those who oppose the use of quinine, and all similar ingredients, as

cinchonidia or chinoidine, and would like to try a novel, yet a simple, cure, I

;

;

—

;

—

give the following:

—

Ague and Fever, Wovel but Simple Cure. Take a mediumnutmeg and char it by holding it to a flame by sticking a piece of wire

inside,