MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.[1]
BOGARDUS' LINIMENT.--Take two ozs. Oil Cajeput, one oz. Oil Sassafras,
one oz. Oil Cloves, one oz. Oil Organum, 1/2-oz. Oil Mustard, one oz.
Tinc. Capsicum, two ozs. Gum Camphor, one-half Gallon of Alcohol. Use
as other liniments for any ache or pain. For sore throat or hoarseness,
saturate a towel with the liniment, place it over the mouth, let it
remain so for 4 or 5 hours, and you will be cured. For croup, bathe
throat and chest with the liniment. Give one-fourth teaspoonful of
liniment in one teaspoonful of warm water every 5 to 10 minutes till
relieved. Also, let the child breathe the fumes of the liniment. I
especially recommend this liniment for general family use.
[1] NOTE--It is not pretended that in every instance the formulas
are absolutely those used to make the medicines as indicated
herein; but in every instance the medicines are equally good,
when made according to instructions.
HEALING SALVE.--One lb. Lard, 1/2 lb. Resin, 1/2 lb. Sweet Elder bark.
Simmer over a slow fire 4 hours, or until it forms a hard, brown salve.
This is for the cure of cuts, bruises, boils, old sores and all like
ailments. Spread on a cotton cloth and apply to the parts affected.
SPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM.--One oz. Salt Petre, pulverized; one
pint Sweet Oil. Bathe the parts affected three times a day with this
mixture and a speedy cure will be the result.
ANOTHER SALVE.--One oz. Sheep's Tallow, Beeswax one oz., one-half oz.
Sweet Oil, one-half oz. Red Lead, two ozs. Gum Camphor. Fry all these
together in a stone dish. Continue to simmer for 4 hours. Spread on
green basswood leaves or paper and apply to the sore.
MAGNETIC OINTMENT.--One lb. Elder Bark, one lb. Spikenard Root, one lb.
Yellow Dock Root. Boil in two gallons of water down to one, then press
the strength out of the bark and roots and boil the liquid down to
one-half gallon. Add 8 lbs. of best Resin, one lb. Beeswax, and Tallow
enough to soften. Apply to the sores, etc., by spreading on linen
cloth.
OINTMENT STRAMONIUM.--One lb. Stramonium Leaves, three lbs. Lard,
one-half lb. Yellow Wax. Boil the Stramonium Leaves in the Lard until
they become pliable, then strain through linen. Lastly add the wax
previously melted and stir until they are cold. This a useful anodyne
application in irritable ulcers, painful hemorrhoids, and in cutaneous
eruptions.
CATHARTIC PILLS.--One-half oz. extract Colacinth, in powder, three
drms. Jolop in powder, three drms. Calomel, two scru. Gamboge in
powder. Mix these together and with water form into mass and roll into
180 pills. Dose, one pill as a mild laxative, two in vigorous
operations. Use in all bilious diseases when purges are necessary.
FOR HEARTBURN--LOZENGES.--One oz. Gum Arabic, one oz. pulverized
Licorice Root, one-fourth oz. Magnesia. Add water to make into
lozenges. Let dissolve in mouth and swallow.
ANOTHER COUGH CURE--(GOOD).--Take the white of an egg and pulverized
sugar; beat to a froth. Take a tablespoonful every hour for 3 or 4
hours.
TETTER OINTMENT.--One oz. Spirits Turpentine, one ounce Red Precipitate
in powder, one oz. Burgundy Pitch in powder, one lb. Hog's Lard. Melt
all these ingredients over a slow fire until the ointment is formed.
Stir until cold. Spread on a linen rag and apply to the parts affected.
A SURE CURE FOR PILES.--Confection of Senna, two ozs., Cream of Tartar
one oz., Sulphur one oz., Syrup of Ginger, enough to make a stiff
paste; mix. A piece as large as a nut is to be taken as often as
necessary to keep the bowels open. One of the best remedies known.
DIPHTHERIA.--Take a clean clay tobacco pipe, put a live coal in it,
then put common tar on the fire and smoke it, inhaling and breathing
back through the nostrils.
FEVER AND AGUE.--Quinine one scru., Elixir Vitriol one drm. Dissolve
the Quinine in the Elixir and Tinc. of Black Cohash fourteen drops.
Dose: 20 drops in a little water once an hour.
CORNS.--A SURE CURE AND PAINLESS ERADICATION.--Extract of Cannabis
Indicus ten grs., Salicylic Acid 6 grs., Collodion one oz. Mix and
apply with a camel's hair pencil so as to form a thick covering over
the corn for 3 or 4 nights. Take a hot foot bath and the corn can
easily be removed with the aid of a knife.
MAGIC OIL.--One gallon Sweet Oil, two ozs. Oil Hemlock, two ozs. Oil
Organum, two ozs. Chloroform, four ozs. Spirits Ammonia. Mix. Let it
stand 24 hours and it is ready for use. Dose, internally, one
teaspoonful for adults. Bathe the affected parts well. This is a great
remedy for aches and pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and all nervous and
inflammatory diseases.
CURE FOR SORE THROAT IN ALL ITS DIFFERENT FORMS.--Two ozs. Cayenne
Pepper, one oz. common Salt, one-half pint of Vinegar. Warm over a slow
fire and gargle the throat and mouth every hour. Garlic and Onion
poultice applied to the outside. Castor Oil, one spoonful to keep the
bowels open.
DROPS OF LIFE.--One oz. Gum Opium, one drm. Gum Kino, forty grs. Gum
Camphor, one-half ounce Nutmeg powdered, one pint French Brandy. Let
stand from one to ten days. Dose, from 30 to 40 drops for an adult;
children, half doses. This is one of the most valuable preparations in
the Materia Medica, and will in some dangerous hours, when all hope is
fled, and the system is racked with pain, be the soothing balm which
cures the most dangerous disease to which the human body is
liable--flux, dysentery and all summer complaints.
CATARRH, POSITIVE CURE.--Carbolic Acid, ten to twenty drops; Vaseline,
one to two ozs. Mix and use with an atomizer 3 or 4 times per day.
COUGH DROPS.--Tinc. Aconite 5 drops, Tinc. Asclepias one drm.,
Glycerine two ozs., Syrup of Wild Cherry. Mix and take a teaspoonful
every 40 minutes until relieved.
EYE WATER.--Table Salt and White Vitriol, each one teaspoonful. Heat
them on earthen dish until dry. Now add them to soft water one-half
pint. White Sugar one teaspoonful, Blue Vitriol a piece as large as a
common pea. Should this be too strong add a little more water. Apply to
the eye 3 or 4 times a day.
TO REMOVE TAPE WORM.--Let the patient miss two meals. Give two
teaspoonfuls powdered Kamala. Should the bowels not move within two
and-a half hours, give another teaspoonful of the Kamala. You may
follow this in two hours by from half to one oz. Castor Oil. This is a
positive cure for Tape Worm. It will not make the patient sick. In
buying the drug be sure and get Kamala, not Camellea. Kamala is in
appearance like quite red brick dust, and is nearly tasteless, whereas
Camellea is of a yellowish color.
A SURE CURE FOR SMALL POX.--A gentleman contributes to the _Chicago
News_ the following as a sure and never failing cure for small pox: One
ounce Cream of Tartar dissolved in pint of boiling water, to be drank
when cold at intervals. It can be taken at any time, and as a
preventive as well as a curative. It is known to have cured in
thousands of cases without a failure.
TO STRENGTHEN AND INVIGORATE THE SYSTEM.--Two drms. Essential Salt of
the Round Leaf Cornel, one scru. Extract Rhubarb, one scru. Ginger
Powder. Make into pills, and take for a dose 2 or 3 twice a day.
GONORRHEA.--Balsam of Copabia one oz., Oil of Cubebs two drms.,
Laudanum one dram, Mucilage of Gum Arabic two ozs., Sweet Spirits Nitre
half oz., Compound Spirits Lavender three drms., Camphor Water four
ozs., White Sugar two drms., Oil of Partridge Berry five drops. Mix.
Dose, a tablespoonful 3 or 4 times a day.
SURE CORN CURE.--One-half ounce Tincture of Iodine, one-half ounce
Chloride or Antimony, 12 grains Iodide of Iron. Mix. Pare the corn with
a sharp knife; apply the lotion with a pencil brush. Put up in one
ounce bottles. Sell for 25 to 40 cents. This sells to everybody. (See
price of labels.)
N.B.--The law imposing stamp duty on medicines, compounds, perfumes,
cosmetics, etc., has been repealed.
RUSSIA SALVE.--Take equal parts of Yellow Wax and Sweet Oil, melt
slowly, carefully stirring; when cooling stir in a small quantity of
Glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, etc.
PARADISE LINIMENT.--Take a gill of Alcohol, one-fourth ounce Tincture
Capsicum, one-half ounce Paradise Seed, cracked, and put all together.
For rheumatism, sprains, lameness, etc.
COURT PLASTER.--This plaster is a kind of varnished silk, and its
manufacture is very easy. Bruise a sufficient quantity of Isinglass,
and let it soak in a little warm water for twenty-four hours. Expose it
to heat over the fire until the greater part of the water is dissipated
and supply its place by proof Spirits of Wine, which will combine with
the Isinglass. Strain the whole through a piece of open linen, taking
care that the consistency of the mixture shall be such that when cool
it may form a trembling jelly. Extend a piece of black or flesh-colored
silk on a wooden frame, and fix it in that position by means of tacks
or twine. Then apply the Isinglass, after it has been rendered liquid
by a gentle heat, to the silk with a brush of fine hair (badger's is
the best). As soon as this coating is dried, which will not be long,
apply a second, and afterward, if the article is to be very superior, a
third. When the whole is dry, cover it with two or three coatings of
the Balsam of Peru. This is the genuine court plaster. It is pliable
and never breaks, which is far from being the case with spurious
articles sold under the same name.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.--Sulphate of Iron five grains, Magnesia
ten grains, Peppermint water eleven drachms, Spirits of Nutmeg, one
drachm, twice a day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant,
and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and
prevents that absolute physical and mental prostration that follows a
sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.
FRENCH LUSTRAL.--Take Castor Oil three ozs., Alcohol one and one-half
ozs., Ammonia one-sixteenth of an oz., well shaken and mixed together;
perfume to suit--Bergamont or any other perfume. Splendid hair
dressing. Three ounce bottles, twenty-five cents.
LUNG MEDICINE.--Take Black Cohosh one-half oz., Lobelia one-fourth oz.,
Canker root three-fourths oz., Blackberry Root three-fourths of an oz.,
Sarsaparilla one oz., Pleurisy Root one-half oz., steeped in three
pints of water. Dose, one tablespoonful three times a day, before
eating. Sure cure for spitting blood.
TOOTHACHE DROPS.--Four ounces pulverized Alum, fourteen ozs. Sweet
Spirits of Nitre. Put up in one oz. bottles. Retails readily at 25
cents per bottle. This is the most effective remedy for toothache that
was ever discovered, and is a fortune to any one who will push its
sale. It sells at every house.
MAGNETIC TOOTHACHE DROPS.--Take equal parts of Camphor, Sulphuric
Ether, Ammonia, Laudanum, Tincture of Cayenne, and one-eighth part of
Oil of Cloves. Mix well together. Saturate with the liquid a small
piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the diseased tooth, and the
pain will cease immediately. Put up in long drachm bottles. Retail at
25 cents. This is a very salable preparation, and affords a large
profit to the manufacturer.
GREEN MOUNTAIN SALVE.--Take one pound Beeswax, one pound of soft
Butter, and one and one-half pounds soft Turpentine, twelve ounces
Balsam Fir. Melt and strain. Use to heal fresh wounds, burns, scalds
and all bad sores.
WARTS AND CORNS--TO CURE IN TEN MINUTES.--Take a small piece of Potash
and let it stand in the open air until it slacks, then thicken it to a
paste with pulverized Gum Arabic, which prevents it from spreading
where it is not wanted.
LINIMENT--GOOD SAMARITAN.--Take 98 per cent Alcohol two quarts, and add
to it the following articles: Oils of Sassafras, Hemlock, Spirits of
Turpentine, Tincture Cayenne, Catechu, Guaic (guac), and Laudanum, of
each one ounce, Tincture of Myrrh four ounces, Oil of Organum two
ounces, Oil of Wintergreen one-half ounce. Gum Camphor two ounces, and
Chloroform one and one-half ounce. This is one of the best applications
for internal pains known. It is superior to any other enumerated in
this work.
PLAIN COURT PLASTER, that will not stick and remains flexible: Soak
Isinglass in a little warm water for twenty-four hours, then evaporate
nearly all the water by gentle heat. Dissolve the residue with a little
Proof Spirits of Wine, and strain the whole through a piece of open
linen. The strained mass should be a stiff jelly when cool. Stitch a
piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks or thread. Melt
the jelly and apply it to the silk thinly and evenly with a badger hair
brush. A second coating must be applied after the first has dried. When
the both are dry apply over the whole surface two or three coatings of
Balsam of Peru. This plaster remains quite pliable, and never breaks.
A CURE FOR CANCER (AS USED BY A NEW YORK PHYSICIAN WITH GREAT
SUCCESS).--Take Red Oak Bark, and boil it to the thickness of molasses,
then mix with sheep's tallow of equal proportion. Spread it on leaves
of Linnwood green, and keep the plaster over the ulcer. Change once in
eight hours.
DAVIS' PAIN KILLER--One quart proof Alcohol, one drm., Chloroform, one
oz. Oil Sassafras, one oz. Gum Camphor, one drm. Spirits of Ammonia,
two drms. Oil of Cayenne. Mix well and let stand 24 hours before using.
AUGUST FLOWER.--Powdered Rhubarb one oz., Golden Seal one-fourth oz.,
Aloes one drachm, Peppermint Leaves two drms., Carbonate of Potash two
drms., Capsicum five grs., Sugar five ozs., Alcohol three ozs., Water
ten ozs., Essence of Peppermint twenty drops. Powder the drugs and let
stand covered with Alcohol and water, equal parts for seven days.
Filter and add through the filter enough diluted Alcohol to make one
pint.
BLOOD PURIFIER--B.B.B.--Fluid Extract Burdock one oz., Fluid Extract
Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid Extract Yellow Dock one oz., Fluid Extract
Senna one oz., Syrup eight ozs., Alcohol two ozs. Mix.
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP.--Wine of Tar two ozs., Fluid Extract Squills
one oz., Tinct. Opium two drms., Fluid Extract Sanguinarie two drms.,
Syrup of Sugar eight ozs. Mix.
CENTAUR LINIMENT.--Oil Speke one oz., Oil Wormwood one oz., Oil
Sassafras one oz., Oil Organum one oz., Oil Cinnamon one oz., Oil
Cloves one drm., Oil Cedar one drm., Sulphur. Ether one oz., Aqua
Ammonia one oz., Tinc. Opium one oz., Alcohol one gal. Mix. This is an
excellent liniment and good whenever a liniment is needed.
CASTORIA.--Pumpkin Seed one oz., Cenria Leaves one oz., Rochelle Salts
one oz., Anise Seed one-half oz., Bi. Carb. Soda one oz., Worm Seed
one-half oz. Mix and thoroughly rub together in an earthen vessel, then
put into a bottle and pour over it four ozs. water and one oz. Alcohol,
and let stand four days, then strain off and add Syrup made of White
Sugar, quantity to make one pint, then add one-half oz. Alcohol drops
and five drops Wintergreen. Mix thoroughly and add to the contents of
the bottle and take as directed.
HARTER'S IRON TONIC.--Calisaya Bark two ozs., Citrate of Iron two ozs.,
Gentian two ozs., Cardamon Seed two ozs., Syrup two ozs., Alcohol two
ozs., Water eight ozs. Mix.
HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.--Fluid Extract Ipecac one-half oz., Fluid
Extract Squills one oz., Chloroform one-fourth oz., Wine of Tar one
oz., Tinct. Opium, one-fifth oz., Fluid Extract of Mullen one oz.,
Syrup enough to make one pint.
GODFREY'S CORDIAL.--Tinct. Opium six ozs., Molasses four pints, Alcohol
eight ozs., Water six pints, Carbonate Potash four drms., Oil Sassafras
cut with Alcohol one drm. Dissolve the Potash in water, add the
Molasses; heat over a gentle fire till it simmers, remove the scum, add
the other ingredients, the oil dissolved in the Alcohol.
HALL'S HONEY OF HOARHOUND AND TAR.--Wine of Tar one oz., Fluid Extract
of Hoarhound one oz., Tinct. Opium one drm., Syrup Orange Peel one-half
oz., Honey three ozs., Syrup enough to make one pint.
HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA.--Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid Extract
Yellow Dock one oz., Fluid Extract Poke Root, one-half oz., Iodide of
Potash one-half oz., Syrup Orange Peel one oz., Alcohol four ozs.,
Syrup enough to make one pint.
HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL.--Oil Sassafras two ozs., Oil Cedar one oz., Gum
Camphor one oz., Sulph. Ether two ozs., Chloroform two ozs., Tinct.
Capsicum one oz., Aqua Ammonia two ozs., Oil Turpentine one oz., Tinct.
Quassia three ozs., Alcohol half a gallon. Mix and you have a fine
liniment.
HOP BITTERS.--Hops four ozs., Orange Peel two ozs., Cardamon two drms.,
Cinnamon one drm., Cloves one-half drm., Alcohol eight ozs., Sherry
Wine two pints, Simple Syrup one pint. Water sufficient. Grind the
drugs, macerate in the Alcohol and Wine for one week, percolate and add
enough syrup and water to make one gallon.
HOSTETTER'S BITTERS.--Gentian Root (ground) one-half oz., Cinnamon Bark
one-half oz., Cinchona Bark (ground) one-half oz., Anise Seed one-half
oz., Coriander Seed (ground) one-half oz., Cardamon Seed one-eighth
oz., Gum Kino one-fourth oz., Alcohol one pint. Water four quarts,
Sugar one lb. Mix and let stand for one week, pour off the fluid, boil
the drug for a few minutes in one quart of water, strain off and add
the first fluid, and then the sugar and water.
INJECTION BROU.--Water four ozs., Nitrate Silver twenty grs., Tinct.
Opium one-half oz., Sulph. Bismuth and Hydratis two oz. Mix.
JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT.--Syrup Squills two ozs., Tinct. Tolu one oz.,
Spirits Camphor one drm., Tinct. Digitalis one drm., Tinct. Lobelia one
drm., Wine of Ipecac two drms., Tinc. Opium two drms., Antimonia two
grains. Mix.
JAYNE'S TONIC VERMIFUGE.--L. santonnie twenty grs., Fluid Extract Pink
Root three drms., Fluid Extract Senna two drms., Simple Elixir two
ozs., Syrup two ozs. Mix. Take tablespoonful night and morning.
MUSTANG LINIMENT.--Linseed Oil fourteen ozs., Aqua Ammonia two ozs.,
Tinct. Capsicum one-fourth oz., Oil Organum one-fourth oz., Turpentine
one oz., Oil Mustard, one-fourth oz. Mix.
S.S.S. FLUID.--Extract Phytolacca one oz., Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla
one oz., Iodide Potash one oz., Extract Fluid Xanthoxylon one-half oz.,
Culiver's Root Fluid Extract one oz., Acetate Potash one oz., Cinnamon
Tinct. one-fourth oz., Tinct. Cardamon Seed one oz., Alcohol four ozs.,
Sugar one-half pound, Water thirty-six ozs. Mix.
SMITH'S TONIC.--Fowler's Solution of Arsenic two drms., Culiver's Root
one oz., Syrup Orange Peel four ozs., Simple Syrup twelve ozs. Mix.
Then add Chinchonia forty grains dissolved in Aromatic Sulph. Acid.
Shake to mix well.
SOZODONT FRAGRANT.--Tinct. Soap Bark two ozs., Tinct. Myrrh one drm.,
Glycerine one-half oz., Water one and one-half ozs., Essence Cloves ten
drops, Essence Wintergreen ten drops, Tinct. Cochineal enough to color.
Mix. Accompanying the above is a powder composed of prepared Chalk,
Orris Root, Carbonate Magnesia, of each equal parts. Mix.
SHAKER'S CUTIVE SYRUP.--Fluid Extract Blue Flag twenty drops, Fluid
Extract Culiver's Root twenty drops, Fluid Extract Poke Root twenty
drops, Fluid Extract Butternut twenty drops, Fluid Extract Dandelion
twenty drops, Fluid Extract Prince Pine ten drops, Fluid Extract
Mandrake five drops, Fluid Extract Gentian five drops, Fluid Extract
Calcium five drops, Fluid Extract Black Cohoes thirty drops, Tinct.
Aloe thirty drops, Tinct. Capsicum ten drops, Tinct. Sassafras thirty
drops, Borax one drm., Salt three-fourths drm., Syrup three ozs., Water
eight ozs.
AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL.--Take four grains of Acetate of Morphia, two
fluid drachms of Tincture of Bloodroot, three fluid drachms each of
Antimonial Wine and Wine of Ipecacuanha, and three fluid ounces Syrup
of Wild Cherry. Mix.
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.--Take one pound pulverized Extract of
Licorice, one and one-half pounds Pulverized Sugar, four ounces
pulverized Cubebs, four ounces pulverized Gum Arabic, and one ounce of
pulverized Extract of Conium. Mix.
SUCCUS ALTERNS (McDADE'S).--Fluid Extract Starlinga one oz., Fluid
Extract Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid Extract Phytolacca Decandra
one-half oz., Fluid Extract Lappa Minor one oz., Fluid Extract
Xanthoxylon one-half oz., Syrup fourteen ozs., Mix. Teaspoonful three
times a day.
SEVEN SEALS OF GOLDEN WONDER.--Oil Cajeput two drms., Sassafras
one-half oz., Oil Organum one drm., Oil Hemlock one drm., Oil Cedar one
drm., Tincture Capsicum one-fourth oz., Alcohol enough to make one
pint.
WAKEFIELD'S WINE BITTERS.--Cinchona Bark four ozs., Gentian Bark two
ozs., Juniper Berries one oz., Orange Peel one oz., Lemon Peel fresh
sliced one-fourth oz., California Port Wine four pints, Alcohol one
pint, Water three pints. Digest or let stand ten days, then filter and
add wine enough to preserve measure.
ST. JACOB'S OIL.--Camphor Gum one oz., Chloral Hydrate one oz.,
Chloroform one oz., Sulphate Ether one oz., Tinct. Opium (non-aqueous)
one-half oz., Oil Organum one-half oz., Oil Sassafras one-half oz.,
Alcohol one-half gallon. Dissolve Gum Camphor with Alcohol and then add
the oil, then the other ingredients.
R.R.R.--Alcohol two pints, Oil Sassafras two ozs., Oil Organum twi
ozs., Camphor Spirits one-half oz., Tinct. Opium one oz., Chloroform
one oz. Mix.
PISO'S CONSUMPTION CURE.--Tartar Emetic four grains, Tinc. Tolu
one-half oz., Sulphate Morphia four grains, Fluid Extract Lobelia two
drms., Chloroform one drm., Fluid Extract Cannabis Indica two drms.,
Essence Spearmint ten drops, Hot Water eight ozs., Sugar four ozs.,
Dissolve the Morphia and Tartar Emetic in hot water and add the rest.
WARNER'S TIPPECANOE BITTERS.--Cardamon Seed two ozs., Nutmeg one drm.,
Grains of Paradise one drm., Cloves one oz., Cinnamon two ozs., Ginger
one oz., Orange Peel one oz., Lemon Peel one oz., Alcohol one gallon,
Water one gallon, Sugar three pounds. Mix and let stand for six or
seven days and filter. Then add enough water to make four gallons.
WARNER'S SAFE CURE.--Take of Smart Weed four pounds, boil for one hour
with one gallon soft water, adding warm water to supply waste by
evaporation; then strain off and add Acetate Potash four ozs., Sugar
four pounds. Boil again till sugar is dissolved, then add Alcohol eight
ozs., and flavor with Oil of Wintergreen cut with Alcohol.
WAKEFIELD'S BLACKBERRY BALSAM.--Blackberries crushed two pounds,
Boiling Water four ozs., Sugar four ozs., Jamaica Ginger four grs.,
Alcohol two ozs. Mix and add Syrup enough to make sixteen ozs.
ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES.
WHAT TO DO.
If an artery is cut, red blood spurts. Compress it above the wound. If
a vein is cut, dark blood flows. Compress it below and above.
If choked, go upon all fours and cough.
For slight burns, dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed,
cover with varnish or linseed oil.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the person
flat.
Send for a physician when a serious accident of any kind occurs, but
treat as directed until he arrives.
SCALDS AND BURNS.--The following facts cannot be too firmly impressed
on the mind of the reader, that in either of these accidents the
_first_, _best_ and _often the only remedies required_, are sheets of
wadding, fine wool, or carded cotton, and in the default of these,
violet powder, flour, magnesia or chalk. The object for which these
several articles are employed is the same in each instance; namely, to
exclude the air from injured part; for if the air can be effectually
shut out from the raw surface, and care is taken not to expose the
tender part till the new cuticle is formed, the cure may be safely left
to nature. The moment a person is called to a case of scald or burn, he
should cover the part with a sheet, or a portion of a sheet, of
wadding, taking care not to break any blister that may have formed, or
stay to remove any burnt clothes that may adhere to the surface, but as
quickly as possible envelope every part of the injury from all access
of the air, laying one or two more pieces of wadding on the first, so
as to effectually guard the burn or scald from the irritation of the
atmosphere; and if the article used is wool or cotton, the same
precaution, of adding more material where the surface is thinly
covered, must be adopted; a light bandage finally securing all in their
places. Any of the popular remedies recommended below may be employed
when neither wool, cotton nor wadding are to be procured, it being
always remembered that that article which will best exclude the air
from a burn or scald is the best, quickest, and least painful mode of
treatment. And in this respect nothing has surpassed cotton loose or
attached to paper as in wadding.
_If the Skin is Much Injured_ in burns, spread some linen pretty
thickly with chalk ointment, and lay over the part, and give the
patient some brandy and water if much exhausted; then send for a
medical man. If not much injured, and very painful, use the same
ointment, or apply carded cotton dipped in lime water and linseed oil.
If you please, you may lay cloths dipped in ether over the parts, or
cold lotions. Treat scalds in same manner, or cover with scraped raw
potato; but the chalk ointment is the best. In the absence of all
these, cover the injured part with treacle, and dust over it plenty of
flour.
BODY IN FLAMES.--Lay the person down on the floor of the room, and
throw the table cloth, rug or other large cover over him, and roll him
on the floor.
DIRT IN THE EYE.--Place your forefinger upon the cheek-bone, having the
patient before you; then slightly bend the finger, this will draw down
the lower lid of the eye, and you will probably be able to remove the
dirt; but if this will not enable you to get at it, repeat this
operation while you have a netting needle or bodkin placed over the
eyelid; this will turn it inside out, and enable you to remove the sand
or eyelash, etc., with the corner of a fine silk handkerchief. As soon
as the substance is removed, bathe the eye with cold water, and exclude
the light for a day. If the inflammation is severe, let the patient use
a refrigerant lotion.
LIME IN THE EYE.--Syringe it well with warm vinegar and water in the
proportion of one ounce of vinegar to eight ounces of water; exclude
light.
IRON OR STEEL SPICULAE IN THE EYE.--These occur while turning iron or
steel in a lathe, and are best remedied by doubling back the upper or
lower eyelid, according to the situation of the substance, and with the
flat edge of a silver probe, taking up the metallic particle, using a
lotion made by dissolving six grains of sugar of lead and the same of
white vitriol, in six ounces of water, and bathing the eye three times
a day till the inflammation subsides. Another plan is--Drop a solution
of sulphate of copper (from one to three grains of the salt to one
ounce of water) into the eye, or keep the eye open in a wineglassful of
the solution. Bathe with cold lotion, and exclude light to keep down
inflammation.
DISLOCATED THUMB.--This is frequently produced by a fall. Make a clove
hitch, by passing two loops of cord over the thumb, placing a piece or
rag under the cord to prevent it cutting the thumb; then pull in the
same line as the thumb. Afterwards apply a cold lotion.
CUTS AND WOUNDS.--Clean cut wounds, whether deep or superficial, and
likely to heal by the first intention, should always be washed or
cleaned, and at once evenly and smoothly closed by bringing both edges
close together, and securing them in that position by adhesive plaster.
Cut thin strips of sticking plaster, and bring the parts together; or
if large and deep, cut two broad pieces, so as to look like the teeth
of a comb, and place one on each side of the wound, which must be
cleaned previously. These pieces must be arranged so that they will
interlace one another; then, by laying hold of the pieces on the right
side with one hand, and those on the other side with the other hand,
and pulling them from one another, the edges of the wound are brought
together without any difficulty.
_Ordinary Cuts_ are dressed by thin strips, applied by pressing down
the plaster on one side of the wound, and keeping it there and pulling
in the opposite direction; then suddenly depressing the hand when the
edges of the wound are brought together.
CONTUSIONS are best healed by laying a piece of folded lint, well
wetted with extract of lead, or boracic acid, on the part, and, if
there is much pain, placing a hot bran poultice over the dressing,
repeating both, if necessary, every two hours. When the injuries are
very severe, lay a cloth over the part, and suspend a basin over it
filled with cold lotion. Put a piece of cotton into the basin, so that
it shall allow the lotion to drop on the cloth, and thus keep it always
wet.
HEMORRHAGE, when caused by an artery being divided or torn, may be
known by the blood issuing out of the wound in leaps or jerks, and
being of a bright scarlet color. If a vein is injured, the blood is
darker and flows continuously. To arrest the latter, apply pressure by
means of a compress and bandage. To arrest arterial bleeding, get a
piece of wood (part of a broom handle will do), and tie a piece of tape
to one end of it; then tie a piece of tape loosely over the arm, and
pass the other end of the wood under it; twist the stick round and
round until the tape compresses the arm sufficiently to arrest the
bleeding, and then confine the other end by tying the string around the
arm. A compress made by enfolding a penny piece in several folds of
lint or linen should, however, be first placed under the tape and over
the artery. If the bleeding is very obstinate, and it occurs in the
_arm_, place a cork underneath the string, on the inside of the fleshy
part, where the artery may be felt beating by anyone, if in the _leg_,
place a cork in the direction of a line drawn from the inner part of
the knee towards the outer part of the groin. It is an excellent thing
to accustom yourself to find out the position of these arteries, or,
indeed, any that are superficial, and to explain to every person in
your house where they are, and how to stop bleeding. If a stick cannot
be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie a knot
in the middle; the knot acts as a compress, and should be placed over
the artery, while the two ends are to be tied around the thumb. Observe
_always to place the ligature between the wound and the heart_. Putting
your finger into a bleeding wound, and making pressure until a surgeon
arrives, will generally stop violent bleeding.
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE, from whatever cause, may generally be stopped
by putting a plug of lint into the nostrils; if this does not do, apply
a cold lotion to the forehead; raise the head, and place over it both
arms, so that it will rest on the hands; dip the lint plug, _slightly
moistened_, into some powdered Gum Arabic, and plug the nostrils again;
or dip the plug into equal parts of powdered Gum Arabic and alum, and
plug the nose. Or the plug may be dipped in Friar's balsam, or tincture
of Kino. Heat should be applied to the feet; and, in obstinate cases,
the sudden shock of a cold key, or cold water poured down the spine,
will instantly stop the bleeding. If the bowels are confined take a
purgative. Injections of alum solution from a small syringe into the
nose will often stop hemorrhage.
VIOLENT SHOCKS will sometimes stun a person, and he will remain
unconscious. Untie strings, collars, etc.; loosen anything that is
tight, and interferes with the breathing; raise the head; see if there
is bleeding from any part; apply smelling salts to the nose, and hot
bottles to the feet.
IN CONCUSSION, the surface of the body is cold and pale, and the pulse
weak and small, the breathing slow and _gentle_, and the pupil of the
eye generally contracted or small. You can get an answer by speaking
loud, so as to rouse the patient. Give a little brandy and water, keep
the place quiet, apply warmth, and do not raise the head too high. If
you tickle the feet, the patient feels it.
IN COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN from any cause, such as apoplexy, or a
piece of fractured bone pressing on it, there is loss of sensation. If
you tickle the feet of the injured person he does not feel it. You
cannot arouse him so as to get an answer. The pulse is slow and
labored; the breathing deep, labored, and _snorting_; the pupil
enlarged. Raise the head, loosen strings or tight things, and send for
a surgeon. If one cannot be got at once, apply mustard poultices to the
feet and thighs, leeches to the temples, and hot water to the feet.
CHOKING.--When a person has a fish bone in the throat, insert the
forefinger, press upon the root of the tongue, so as to induce
vomiting; if this does not do, let him swallow a large piece of potato
or soft bread; and if these fail, give a mustard emetic.
FAINTING, HYSTERICS, ETC.--Loosen the garments, bathe the temples with
water or eau-de-Cologne; open the window, admit plenty of fresh air,
dash cold water on the face, apply hot bricks to the feet, and avoid
bustle and excessive sympathy.
DROWNING.--Attend to the following _essential rules_: 1. Lose no time.
2. Handle the body gently. 3. Carry the body face downwards, with the
head gently raised, and never hold it up by the feet. 4. Send for
medical assistance immediately, and in the meantime act as follows: 5.
Strip the body; rub it dry, then wrap it in hot blankets, and place it
in a warm bed in a warm room. 6. Cleanse away the froth and mucous from
the nose and mouth. 7. Apply warm bricks, bottles, bags of sand, etc.,
to the arm pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet. 8.
Rub the surface of the body with the hands inclosed in warm, dry
worsted socks. 9. If possible, put the body into a warm bath. 10. To
restore breathing, put the pipe of a common bellows into one nostril,
carefully closing the other, and the mouth; at the same time drawing
downwards, and pushing gently backwards, the upper part of the
windpipe, to allow a more free admission of air; blow the bellows
gently, in order to inflate the lungs, till the breast is raised a
little; then set the mouth and nostrils free, and press gently on the
chest; repeat this until signs of life appear. The body should be
covered from the moment it is placed on the table, except the face, and
all the rubbing carried on under the sheet or blanket. When they can be
obtained, a number of tiles or bricks should be made tolerably hot in
the fire, laid in a row on the table, covered with a blanket, and the
body placed in such a manner on them that their heat may enter the
spine. When the patient revives, apply smelling-salts to the nose, give
warm wine or brandy and water. _Cautions._--1. Never rub the body with
salt or spirits. 2. Never roll the body on casks. 3. Continue the
remedies for twelve hours without ceasing.
HANGING.--Loosen the cord, or whatever it may be by which the person
has been suspended. Open the temporal artery or jugular vein, or bleed
from the arm; employ electricity, if at hand, and proceed as for
drowning, taking the additional precaution to apply eight or ten
leeches to the temples.
APPARENT DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS--Raise the head, loosen the clothes,
maintain warmth of surface, and give a mustard emetic as soon as the
person can swallow.
APOPLEXY AND FITS GENERALLY.--Raise the head; loosen all tight clothes,
strings, etc.; apply cold lotions to the head, which should be shaved;
apply leeches to the temples, bleed, and send for a surgeon.
SUFFOCATION FROM NOXIOUS GASES, ETC.--Remove to the fresh air; dash
cold vinegar and water in the face, neck, and breast; keep up the
warmth of the body; if necessary, apply mustard poultices to the soles
of the feet and to the spine, and try artificial respirations as in
drowning, with electricity.
LIGHTNING AND SUNSTROKE.--Treat the same as apoplexy.
MIND CURE.
THE MIND CURE, otherwise known in its various subdivisions as
metaphysics, Christian science, mental science, etc., is a species of
delusion quite popular at the present time. Every era of the world has
cherished similar delusions, for the mass of the human race, even in
what are considered the educated classes, are so unfamiliar with the
processes of exact reasoning that they fall a ready prey to quacks of
all kinds. The fundamental idea of the mind cure system is that there
is no such thing as sickness. Disease, says one of their apostles, is
an error of the mind, the result of fear. Fear is only faith inverted
and perverted. God, who is all good Himself, and who made everything
good, cannot have been the author of any disease. As disease,
therefore, is not a creation, it has no existence, and when the healer
has succeeded in impressing this fact upon the mind of the patient, the
cure is effected. It is curious to note into what utter absurdities the
need for consistency carries these apostles. Poisons, they say, would
be quite harmless if the fear of them was removed, but we have yet to
find the "mental science" teacher who will undertake to prove this by
herself taking liberal doses of aconite and strychnine. The illnesses
of children are explained by the hypothesis of hereditary fear. The
majority of the teachers of this new faith are women, many of whom, no
doubt, are sincere in their belief; but it may be safely stated that
the men engaged as the so-called physicians of the new practice are,
with few exceptions, unprincipled quacks, who have gone into the
business for the money they can make by duping the ignorant. As far as
there is any truth underlying the vagaries of mind cures, and their
boasts of remarkable cases of healing, it may be admitted that the mind
has much influence over the body. This fact has been recognized by
intelligent physicians for centuries. And that the peculiar modern type
of nervous diseases, which are so largely caused by excessive stimulus
of the nerves and the imagination, should be amendable to cure through
the imagination, is not strange. It will be noted that this mental cure
has effected its miracles mainly among women, where it has the
emotional temperament to work on, and almost wholly in the ranks of the
wealthy and well-to-do, where there is little or no impoverishment of
the system by insufficient food and excessive toil to hinder its
effects. We have not heard, nor are we likely to hear, of an epidemic
disease checked by the mind cure, or of the healing of acute affections
or organic troubles through its agency. Nor do we hear of its seeking
to carry its message of healing into the houses of the suffering poor
in large cities, where hunger, exposure and foul airs open wide the
door to fevers and all deadly diseases, nor yet into the hospitals for
contagious or incurable affections. In the presence of such realities
it would prove, as its votaries probably understand, a too-painful
mockery. Intelligently analyzed, therefore, this new revelation amounts
to nothing more than a quite striking proof of the remarkable influence
of the mind over the nervous system. Beyond this, the craze, in
attempting to disprove the existence of disease, and to show that
poisons do not kill, is simply running against the plain and inevitable
facts of life, and can safely be left to perish through its own
rashness.
While it must be admitted that many upright and worthy people are
followers of this faith, it can be asserted that to say "disease is
only a mental derangement" is carrying the idea of the power of mind
over matter entirely too far.
POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES.
Always send immediately for a medical man. Save all fluids vomited, and
articles of food, cups, glasses, etc., used by the patient before taken
ill, and lock them up.
As a rule give emetics after poisons that cause sleepiness and raving;
chalk, milk, eggs, butter and warm water, or oil, after poisons that
cause vomiting and pain in the stomach and bowels, with purging; and
when there is no inflammation about the throat, tickle it with a
feather to excite vomiting.
Vomiting may be caused by giving warm water, with a teaspoonful of
mustard to the tumblerful, well stirred up. Sulphate of zinc (white
vitriol) may be used in place of the mustard, or powdered alum. Powder
of ipecacuanha, a teaspoonful rubbed up with molasses, may be employed
for children. _Tartar emetic should never be given_, as it is
excessively depressing, and uncontrolable in its effects. The stomach
pump can only be used by skillful hands, and even then with caution.
_Opium and Other Narcotics._--After vomiting has occurred, cold water
should be _dashed_ over the face and head. The patient must be kept
awake, walked about between two strong persons, made to grasp the
handles of a galvanic battery, dosed with strong coffee, and vigorously
slapped. _Belladonna_ is an antidote for opium and for morphia, etc.,
its active principles; and, on the other hand, the latter counteract
the effects of belladonna. But a knowledge of medicine is necessary for
dealing with these articles.
_Strychnia._--After emetics have been freely and successfully given,
the patient should be allowed to breathe the vapor of sulphuric ether,
poured on a handkerchief and held to the face, in such quantities as to
keep down the tendency to convulsions. Bromide of potassium, twenty
grains at a dose, dissolved in syrup, may be given every hour.
_Alcoholic Poisoning_ should be combated by emetics, of which the
sulphate of zinc given as above directed, is the best. After that,
strong coffee internally, and stimulation by heat externally, should be
used.
_Acids_ are sometimes swallowed by mistake. Alkalies, lime water,
magnesia, or common chalk mixed with water, may be freely given, and
afterward mucilaginous drinks, such as thick gum water or flaxseed tea.
_Alkalies_ are less frequently taken in injurious strength or quantity,
but sometimes children swallow lye by mistake. Common vinegar may be
given freely, and then castor or sweet oil in full doses--a
tablespoonful at a time, repeated every half hour or two.
_Nitrate of Silver_ when swallowed is neutralized by common table salt
freely given in solution in water.
The salts of _mercury_ or _arsenic_ (often kept as bedbug poison),
which are powerful irritants, are apt to be very quickly fatal. Milk or
the whites of eggs may be freely given, and afterward a very thin paste
of flour is neutralized.
_Phosphorus_ paste, kept for roach poison or in parlor matches, is
sometimes eaten by children, and has been wilfully taken for the
purpose of suicide. It is a powerful irritant. The first thing to be
done is to give freely of magnesia and water; then to give mucilaginous
drinks, as flaxseed tea, gum water or sassafras pith and water; and
lastly to administer finely-powdered bone-charcoal, either in pill or
in mixture with water.
In no case of poisoning should there be any avoidable delay in
obtaining the advice of a physician, and, meanwhile, the friends or
by-standers should endeavor to find out exactly what has been taken, so
that the treatment adopted may be as prompt and effective as possible.