fire; when it is out, strew on red precipitate, then apply a plaster
made of hog’s fat, mutton tallow and beeswax; simmer together, take it
off and cool it so as not to curdle the egg, then put in the yolk of an
egg, and stir it till it becomes the consistency of salve.
DISSOLVING STONE IN THE BLADDER.--Take the expressed juice of horse
mint and red onion, one gill of each, every morning and evening, till
the complaint be removed; if the green mint cannot be had, make a
strong decoction of the dry herb.
WEAK JOINTS.--When the cord is stretched, take yarrow, Solomon’s seal,
comfrey roots and mug-wort, make it into an ointment, with fresh butter
or cat’s grease; to guard the stomach, make a tea of St. John’s wort.
FLUX.--Take two teaspoonfuls of clean hickory or oak ashes, quite hot,
in half a gill of old spirits or milk, night and morning, two or three
days if necessary; let the patient live on a flour diet altogether, and
it is good to wear warm flannel next the stomach.
RHEUMATISM.--Take one pound of roll brimstone, pound it fine and put it
into an earthen pot; pour thereon one gallon of boiling water, and stir
it well; after standing about twenty-four hours, it is fit for use.
Drink half a pint in the morning, before breakfast, and the same before
going to bed, and a radical cure will be effected in the space of a few
weeks.
BROKEN BONES.--Take the bark of tag alder, wormwood tops and the white
of hen-dung; boil in water till the strength is out, then strain and
add one gill of hog’s fat, and simmer to an ointment; use with care not
to hurt the bone.
SCALD OR BURN.--Take half a pint of milk, thicken it with Indian meal,
add four spoonsful of soot and four spoonsful of molasses; wet the
poultice with sweet oil and apply. The milk must be scalded, not boiled.
RICKETS AND CONSUMPTION.--To make two quarts of syrup: take a quart
of malt, put it into two gallons of water and boil till the strength
is out; strain it, and to the wort add brook and noble liverwort,
rock polly pody, maiden hair, dog grass, comfrey roots, Indian beans,
parsley, violets, daisy, Johnwort, low balm, tormentile, low bittory,
elder flowers and garden berage, a good handful of each; boil them two
or three hours, strain and let it settle, pour it off from the dregs
and put into it a little licorice and annis-seed; boil it again, strain
and put into it a pint of molasses, make it just boil, and it is done.
Dose for a child three months old, a spoonful in the morning, before
noon, afternoon and at night.
TO MAKE ELIXIR PRO.--Take one quart of good spirits, add to it two
ounces of myrrh; let it stand in the warm sun four days, then add half
ounce socotrin aloes and one ounce saffron; stir it as before, let it
stand two days, then pour it off for use.
TO MAKE ELIXIR ASTHMATIC.--Take two ounces of flowers of benzoin, two
ounces saffron, one ounce crude opium, half ounce oil of annis-seed
and one pound spirits wine; put all together, stand four days in a
warm place, frequently shaking it; strain, and add half ounce oil of
annis-seed; shake it well. Dose, from 20 to 100 drops.
PILES.--Take one handful each of the bark of sumack roots, the green
of alder, and mullen, put them all together in a clean earthen vessel,
with hog’s lard; simmer over a moderate fire the best part of a day,
then strain it through a cloth, and it is fit for use; anoint often.
STRENGTHENING SYRUP.--Take a handful each of asparagus roots; sweet
apple tree bark, black and red alder bark, black cherry bark and hops;
put all into two quarts water, and boil it down to one quart; add one
ounce of rosin, sweeten it with loaf sugar, and add half a pint of gin.
Dose, half a gill.
HEAD-ACHE PILLS.--Two ounces aloes, half an ounce mastic, two drachms
dried marjoram, two drachms salts of wormwood; make them all into a
powder, with juice of coolwort and sugar, as much as is sufficient.
This compound strengthens the stomach, brain, nerves and muscles,
and relieves them of humors; they open obstructions of the liver and
spleen, and remove diseases therefrom. Take half a drachm on going to
bed.
DEWEY’S TINCTURE.--Take two ounces gum guaiacum, half ounce alspice,
one-fourth ounce salts of tartar or common pearlash, and one pint
brandy; pulverize the gum and alspice, steep the whole in the brandy
four days, and then strain off the liquor; add to it one tablespoonful
of the volatile spirits of sal-ammoniac, and keep it corked close.
Dose--a teaspoonful twice a day for about a week, before and at the
time of being unwell.
STIMULATING EMBROCATION.--In case of mortification, take a drachm of
sal-ammoniac to two ounces of vinegar and six of water. This forms a
mixture of the proper strength.
POULTICE TO STOP MORTIFICATION.--Take beef brain, boil and skim it
well, then take it off; take the blossoms of mayweed and feather few,
powder them fine and put them in the brain, stirring them in; thicken
it with Indian meal until fit for use. Do not put it over the fire
after the meal is put in.
RHEUMATISM.--One pint neats foot oil, middling beef’s gall, half pint
French brandy and one gill spirits turpentine, simmered well together;
when applied to the parts affected, those parts should be well heated
by the fire to make it take affect.
CHOLIC.--Take one handful of hoarhound and one handful of oak
of Jerusalem, boil them well until the liquor is reduced to two
tablespoonful, then add one tablespoonful of molasses; simmer the whole
together, and add one spoonful each of good spirits and spirits of
turpentine; stir them well together. Take one teaspoonful three times a
day.
OPODELDOCK.--Take two and half pounds of alcohol, five drachms windsor
soap, and four drachms camphor; digest in a glass vessel till the soap
is dissolved; then add one ounce oil of sassafras, three ounces oil of
lavender, half drachm each origanum and oil fir, four drachms alcohol
and spirits ammonia; put into viol.
COMPOUND POWDERS.--Of jalap, cream tartar and senna, take equal
quantities of each. Dose--one drachm or sixty grains.
SODA POWDERS.--Forty grains tartaric acid, in powders, fifty grains
super-carbonate soda, and eighty grains Rochelle salts.
PAIN IN THE LEGS.--Take oil origanum and make a strong tincture; then
add as much fine salt as will dissolve; bathe with this evenings.
ANOTHER.--Oil origanum, sassafras and lavender; add ether to dissolve
the oils.
PHTHISIC.--Take buds of mandrake, dry them thoroughly and pound them
finely, then take the same quantity of ipecac, put it into vinegar or
warm water, and take a tablespoonful at a time, until it operates; then
take roots of mandrake, split, dry and powder them fine, also a handful
of rock lungwort, dried and powdered, and a spoonful of red vain-dock
and tamarack gum; put all into a quart of gin, and drink half a wine
glass full three times a day.
TO WARM THE BLOOD.--Take of wild colts foot roots and tops, white wood
bark and skunk cabbage roots, three tablespoonsful each, powdered, in
one pint of gin and one pint of water; infuse three days, and take half
a wine glass full four times a day.
SALT RHEUM.--Take half pound litharge, one quart sharp vinegar, simmer
over the fire till the litharge is dissolved; add one pound hog’s lard,
tallow, fresh butter, and the fine dust of guiacum; apply a moderate
heat till the vinegar is principally evaporated; stir till cold. Anoint
the parts twice a day. This has cured very obstinate cases.
TO CLEANSE THE BLOOD.--Sarsaparilla, burdock roots, lignumvitæ and
spice bush, in tea or syrup, with tar ointment made with mutton tallow.
INDIGESTION.--Take one quart of Lisbon wine, put in four ounces of
Peruvian bark, three ounces of steel dust and one ounce of ginger;
take a wine glass full four times a day, morning, noon and night, half
an hour before eating; after supper, put two teaspoonsful of magnesia
in water, and take before going to bed; to relieve the wind in the
stomach, take a teaspoonful of ether in cold water.
DISTRESS IN STOMACH AND BREAST.--Inside bark of white pine and tamarac
twigs of this year’s growth, a large handful of each, and two large
wild turnips; boil in three quarts of water down to three pints; strain
and add half a pound loaf sugar and half pint rum; bottle it close.
Dose--half a gill three times a day, an hour before you eat.
FITS.--One drachm flowers of pine, one drachm extract of stramonium and
fifteen grains assafœtida; make into pills the size of a pea. Take one
every night.
DIABETES.--Take equal parts of the roots of Solomon’s seal and comfrey
roots, and half as much spikenard; boil twelve hours and sweeten with
honey; take sufficient to nauseate the stomach, three times a day; use
medical beer with plenty sumach roots in it. Wash the abdomen every
day with a wash made of equal parts tincture cantharadus and cinnamon
water, mixed.
PLASTER.--Four ounces rosin, one ounce beeswax, half ounce each black
and red pepper; put the whole into one pint of spirits, and simmer till
it becomes thick; when nearly cold, add half ounce sassafras oil and
half ounce gum camphor pulverized; spread on leather.
ASTHMA.--The vegetables which compose these drops, present themselves
about the last of July or first of August, and should be procured at
that time. Take half pound garden rue, one pound garden colt’s-foot,
one pound tops and blows of purple vervain, half pound green tobacco
leaves, half pound hyssop, one pound hoarhound, one pound arsmart, half
pound oak Jerusalem, half pound elecampane roots and half pound sweet
cicely roots.
Pound these ingredients in an iron mortar, boil them twelve hours, then
throw out the roots and put half a pound rock weed, called spleenwort;
then add four ounces stick licorice, two ounces seneca snake root and
two ounces annis seed; boil down to one quart, then strain and boil
down to one pint; add one ounce refined licorice, half pound loaf
sugar, half pound of honey--bumble bee honey, if it can be procured.
These drops must be corked tight in tin vessels; after fermentation,
add an ounce of red cedar oil. Take one teaspoonful twice a day.
FOR RELAXATION OF THE SOLIDS.--Take four drachms each of colt’s-foot
and sweet cicely, three ounces hartshorn rasped, two drachms guaiacum,
two drachms each comfrey, Solomon’s seal and spikenard roots, and one
drachm elecampane; boil or simmer all in a suitable quantity of water
to three pints; strain and add one pound of honey; simmer, stir and
strain again; when cold, add a pint of Madeira wine and bottle for use.
Dose--half a gill three times a day.
SYRUP FOR CONSUMPTION.--Take spikenard, elecampane, comfrey and yellow
willow root, put into a stone pot and cover; let it stand and steep
twelve hours, then strain it and add loaf sugar and one pint wine to a
quart. Take half gill three times a day.
FLAX SEED SYRUP.--Take one pint flax seed and a small handful
spikenard; boil in about three parts water until it becomes quite
thick, then strain it through a thin strainer; add half pint molasses
or strained honey, put it on to simmer, and be particular to take off
the scum. The flax seed and spikenard should be washed clean. Take two
tablespoonsful on going to bed, one in the morning, fasting, and one a
little before dinner.
MARKS ON CHILDREN.--Take one gill of rum, one gill port wine, one
spoonful tar, one spoonful black pepper and a piece of mutton tallow;
take a parsnip and pound so as to get the strength; simmer the whole
together in fresh butter till the liquid part is evaporated; then
strain the ointment and anoint the sore.
COUGH SYRUP.--Take tamarac twigs, inside bark of white pine, oak of
Jerusalem, colts-foot, maiden hair and wild turnip; half gill three
times a day.
STOMACH PLASTER.--Four pounds beeswax, two pounds frankincense (gum
therics), two and a half pounds burgundy pitch, two pounds rosin, one
pound Venice turpentine, two and half ounces winter’s bark, two and
half ounces oil spearmint, four ounces alspice, two and half ounces
camphor, two and half ounces cloves, six ounces red sanders.
WEAK STOMACH.--Take half pound green bark balsam fir, one pound white
pine bark, half pound bark sumach roots, two ounces garden sallindine,
and a little milk weed roots; boil in four quarts of water down to two
quarts, add one pint of good rum, and sweeten with honey or sugar; take
half a gill three times a day, an hour before eating.
PAIN IN THE BREAST.--Take white pine, one ounce grated touch-wood, and
put in one quart French brandy; quarter gill three times a day.
Make a tea of golden maiden hair for a common drink.
STRENGTHENING SYRUP.--Take white pine, pitch pine and balm of gilead
buds; make a syrup. Dose--half gill three times a day; live upon a
light, nourishing diet.
FOR CONSUMPTIVE FEMALES.--Take polly pod roots, boil them in water to
suitable strength, then sweeten, and add one pint of sweet wine to one
quart. Take half gill three times a day.
Take pepperage chips from the east side of the tree, and make a tea for
a constant drink.
CATAMENIA.--Give a tea of lady shoe, and polly pod roots, for an
obstructed catamenia.
FITS.--Take wild indigo roots, make a poultice, and put on the stomach,
hands and feet.
TO STRENGTHEN.--Take two ounces prickly ash bark and one ounce crawley,
and make a syrup. Take half gill three times a day, fasting.
KING’S EVIL.--A tea of seneca would be good for the patient to drink
frequently; for a bath, take white maple bark, boil it and wash the
parts affected, and apply the bark as a poultice.
FEMALE DEBILITY.--To prevent raising her food after eating, give her
trule root, pulverized, instead of pepper, and tea of the former roots,
a little before eating.
BEER.--Take two parts sumach roots, four parts each sassafrass and
black alder, two parts wild cherry and spice bush.
CHILBLAINS.--Take off the dirt from an ant-hill; then take the dirt and
ants’ eggs, put them into boiling water; draw off the water, and save a
bottle of it, to drink two or three times a day, half a gill at a time;
with the remainder wash the feet.
TO WARM AND CLEANSE THE BLOOD.--Take prickly ash berries, bark of white
wood roots, brook lime, bark of bitter sweet roots and culver, and a
little bloodroot.
SYRUP FOR CONSUMPTION.--Take one pound bark bitter sweet roots, one
pound sarsaparilla roots, one pound inside of black birch bark, one
pound twigs of sweet fern, one pound prickly ash bark; put into six
quarts water, boil it to four, and strain the liquor into a large
pewter basin; add a quart of rum, one pound loaf sugar, and simmer till
the scum is raised; skim it off, and put into bottles for use. Take
half gill three times a day, an hour before eating.
CHOLERA MORBUS.--Take one part alspice and two parts saffron, steep
them together and drink often; sweeten with loaf sugar.
SALVE--To remove swellings, weakness of back or joints, and sores. Take
one pound rosin, two ounces beeswax, one ounce spermacetti, one ounce
mutton tallow; melt and stir these together, raise to boiling heat,
take it off the fire and stir again, adding as much good cogniac brandy
as will work in; put this salve into a glass jar, cover with brandy,
and cork it tight for use.
FELONS--On the fingers, may be effectually cured, it is said, in three
hours, by making a poultice the size of a small bean, of quick lime
slacked with soap, bound on the spot and renewed every half hour.
COLD FEET.--Take one ounce and half common salt, put into one quart rum
and add one ounce oil origanum; rub the feet well every night.
FEMALE WEAKNESS.--Take one ounce golden seal, half ounce tansy, half
ounce motherwort seed, not quite half ounce golden thread, ounce beth
root, one ounce white cohosh; put all into four quarts water, boil six
minutes, keep warm seven hours, strain and let cool; add one quart
Madeira wine, and drink a wine glass morning, noon, and before tea.
SPIRITS OF LAVENDER.--Take one ounce cinnamon, two drachms cloves, four
drachms nutmeg and three drachms red saunders, to two quarts spirits,
half ounce oil lavender, and four scruples oil rosemary.
HYSTERIC PILLS.--Take one ounce hepetick, half ounce each aloes, New
England saffron, and castor; powder and mix them well together, then
add two ounces pitch pine turpentine; stir well together and it is fit
for use.
CURRANT WINE.--Take one gallon of water for every gallon currants;
press the currants and strain the liquor; add three pounds sugar to
gallon liquor; let it stand in an open vessel while the scum is rising,
then skim, put it up and cork tight. Two bushels of currants will make
a barrel of wine.
SARSAPARILLA SYRUP.--Take one pound sarsaparilla, thirteen ounces
princes pine, nine ounces yellow dock, two pounds poke root, two pounds
black cohosh, two pounds mandrake, one ounce blood root, two pounds
bitter sweet, two pounds juniper berries; boil and strain, and to
every thirteen pints syrup, add three-fourth pound extract dandelion,
one ounce extract white ash, one and half grains licorice to fifteen
gallons syrup, and three pounds sugar to a gallon.
DIURETIC DROPS.--Two ounces of sweet spirits nitre, one ounce balsam
copavia, two ounces oil almonds, one ounce spirits turpentine; mix
together and add one scruple champagne. Dose--a small teaspoonful given
in mucilage of gum Arabic, three or four times a day.
These drops are useful in scalding of urine, from syphilitic or other
inflammations.
BLOODY FLUX.--Take fresh butter, melt and skim curdy part; give two
teaspoonsful two or three times a day.
ANOTHER.--Take three-fourths ounce old cheese, scrape it fine in a
pint new milk, thickened with flour; let this be the diet; purge with
rhubarb.
PLASTER--To draw all humors to one place. Take two quarts strong beer,
not sour, four ounces copperas, four ounces bole Armenia, six drachms
Venice turpentine, and one pint tar; pulverize hard substances, and
mix all in an iron vessel; simmer (not boil,) over a slow coal fire,
stirring often, until it is reduced to one quart; take it from the
fire, stirring it constantly while cooling; it will take from twelve to
sixteen hours to prepare it.
_Manner of Using._--Spread it on a piece of soft leather, two inches or
more in diameter; put the plaster on when you want to draw the sore;
dress it once in two days, until it begins to run, then dress every
morning.
_Manner of Dressing._--Take the plaster off, and scrape off the salve;
wash the sore one morning with Castile soap, and the next morning with
milk and water; remove all the old salve before putting on fresh.
_Medicine Internally._--Make a tea of three pints water to one ounce
mandrake root; when cold, add a quarter pound salts; take half tea cup
on going to bed. Drink sarsaparilla and spotted maple tea; be careful
not to overheat the blood.
ASPARAGUS ROOTS.--An excellent ingredient in all compositions intended
to cleanse the viscera, especially where there are obstructions, and in
jaundice and dropsy, as it operates on the urine; it is likewise used
in disorders of the breast.
SUDORIFIC DROPS.--Two ounces ipecac, two ounces saffron, two ounces
camphor, two ounces Virginia snake root, two ounces opium, three quarts
Holland gin or spirits; let stand two weeks and strain. Dose--one
teaspoonful in a cup of catnip or pennyroyal tea, given every hour. To
raise perspiration in colds, fevers and inflammations, I know of no
medicine so sure in its operation as this.
MADAME YOUNG’S MEDICA MENTUM.--Half ounce of gum aloes, one ounce each
of rhubarb and ginger, one teaspoonful myrrh and cayenne pepper, and
one quart spirits; steep twenty-four hours, and add one teacup sugar
and half pint water. Take one to two tablespoonsful an hour before
eating. This is good for dyspepsia, or any derangement of the stomach.
BOWEL COMPLAINT.--One ounce rhubarb, one teaspoonful saleratus, and one
pint boiling water; when cold, add two teaspoonsful essence peppermint;
a tablespoonful to be taken every hour.
SPRAINS, BRUISES, &c.--One pint soft soap, handful salt, and
tablespoonful saltpetre; apply with bandage.
NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL--Good for dysentery, cholera morbus and diarrhœa.
Take one pound green peppermint, simmer in half gallon water and strain
off; then take four ounces Turkey rhubarb, simmer into half a gallon
water, till all the strength is out; then strain, add these two liquids
together, with two ounces saleratus and three pounds loaf sugar; then
boil all a few minutes, and when nearly cold, add half pint brandy.
Dose, wine glass full.
ELDER WINE.--Take sixteen quarts of elder berries, clean from the stem,
put with six gallons cold water in a large tub; let them stand two
days, then boil them till the berries fall to the bottom; strain and
squeeze, and to every gallon liquor add three pounds brown sugar; boil
and add quarter pound bruised ginger, two ounces allspice, and cloves,
if you like; when cold, add a little yeast; let it work two days, then
cork bottle up tight.
SWELLINGS.--Dogmacamus is good, scraped, for swellings; steep in milk
and water.
ACID COUGH DROPS.--One pound sumach berries, four ounces elecampane,
one ounce West Indian or African cayenne, one gallon vinegar; boil,
strain and add three pounds honey, or double the quantity of molasses.
If you add licorice, wild turnip, skunk cabbage, say two ounces, you
will have a syrup that will cure sore throat, mouth or lungs. Take
a tablespoonful when the cough is troublesome, or every two hours,
gargling it in the throat, if sore.
SNUFF.--For headache and catarrh: Take one pound yellow dock, half
pound bayberry, four ounces elecampane, three ounces bloodroot and
three ounces beth-root. Take a pinch occasionally, particularly on
going to bed.
VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER.--Equal parts bayberry bark, yellow oak bark,
black alder bark, pulverized; add half a pound elecampane, quarter
pound prickly ash bark, four ounces cloves. This will cure scurvy, and,
if the teeth are sore and loose, it will cure and make them firm in a
short time.
NERVE DROPS.--One pint and half gin, half pint water, two ounces nerve
powder, one ounce hops, pulverized, half ounce skunk cabbage; let this
stand ten days, shaking it often; strain and let it settle. This will
calm and strengthen the nervous system; whereas opium destroys every
energy of the system, and makes it a complete wreck.
ANODYNE BATHING SOLUTION.--Two ounces camphor, six fluid drachms
solution ammonia, and one pint essence lavender; mix the lavender with
the ammonia, then put in camphor, and it is ready for use.
ULCERS OR BAD SORES.--Boil one pound each vervain, yellow dock and
sage, half pound cicuta leaves, in one gallon water; wet cloths in
this, and let them lay on the sores; then dry and sprinkle with
powdered bloodroot, mornings only. Make a strong tea of vervain, drink
a teacupful three times a day, taking three or four of my bilious pills
at night, for nine nights successively.
IROQUOIS UNIVERSAL OINTMENT.--Take one pound tobacco leaves, bruise
and steep twelve hours in one pint red wine; then add half pound fresh
hog’s lard, simmer over a slow fire till the red wine is consumed;
then add four ounces tobacco juice and two ounces rosin; simmer again
till juice is evaporated, then add one ounce wild turnip, and rosin
sufficient to make into an ointment. This is good for sores of every
description, and a wound dressed with this will never putrefy; if you
have pain in your head, anoint your temples; apply to the stomach and
lungs, and no inflammation will settle there; anoint the bowels of
children in case of worms or weakness. This ointment is, as I know, the
best now in use, for sores, burns, ulcers, &c.
OLD SORES.--Pumpkin or carrot poultice is good for old sores; if they
smell bad, sprinkle charcoal on the poultice; to prevent putrefaction,
wash it twice a day in saltpeter water.
ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE.--Drink lemonade and tar water, warm, and wash in
tar water.
ANTI-EMETIC DROPS.--Take a teacup full of good cider vinegar; add a
teaspoonful each of salt and cayenne pepper; give a teaspoonful every
fifteen minutes. I never knew a case where but a half teaspoonful
had not the desired effect. It is good in external application for
rheumatism, bruises, headaches and sprains; for the latter, use hot.
SORREL EXTRACT.--If you wish to make sorrel extract, for burns or
sores, gather it before the 20th June, press out the juice and dry on a
pewter plate. This is the best way to make good extract.