COLLECTION OF VALUABLE MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.
Do you have--
A frequent headache over the eyes?
A susceptibility to chills and fever?
A bitter or oily taste in the mouth?
A sour stomach?
A complexion inclined to be yellow?
A great depression of spirits without known cause?
Specks before the eyes, and flushed face?
A done out, tired feeling?
Besides many other symptoms too numerous to mention? If you have you
are affected in your liver and kidneys, and should do something for
it. The following preparation, "Magic Kidney and Liver Restorer," acts
on these organs and, when diseased or out of order, restores them to a
healthy state. Everyone should keep a bottle of this preparation in
the house, as it is an invaluable medicine. Splendid to take in the
spring to tone up the system:
MAGIC KIDNEY AND LIVER RESTORER.
Two ounces of alcohol;
One and a half ounces of glycerine;
One ounce of liverwort;
Three hundred and twenty grains of saltpetre;
Forty drops of wintergreen.
Steep the liverwort in a quart of water down to half the quantity,
then throw in the other ingredients while hot. Dose: One tablespoonful
about four times a day.
HOP BITTERS.
One ounce mandrake root;
One ounce gentian root;
One ounce dandelion root;
One ounce buchu leaf;
One ounce sarsaparilla leaf;
One ounce blackberry leaf;
One ounce hops.
Infuse in cold water, three quarts, two or three days. Add a pint of
whisky, and bottle. Dose: A teaspoonful three times a day.
ALTERATIVE, OR LIVER POWDER.
Take podophyllin and sanguinaria, of each ten grains; leptandrin,
twenty grains; white sugar, forty grains. Triturate or rub the whole
well together in a mortar and divide into twenty powders, and take one
night and morning. If they operate much on the bowels take but one a
day.
_Uses:_ Valuable in liver complaint, torpidity of the liver, and as an
alterative to act on the secretions of the system generally. A
complete substitute for blue pill and free from any danger.
HEPATIC AND ALTERATIVE POWDER.
Take equal parts, say of each half an ounce, of finely powdered blue
flag root, bloodroot, May apple root, golden seal root, and
bitterroot. Mix all together and pass through a fine sieve. Dose: As
an alterative and to act on the liver and secretions, from two to five
grains two or three times a day.
CATHARTIC AND LIVER PILLS.
Take podophyllin, sixty grains; leptandrin and sanguinaria, ipecac and
pure cayenne, each thirty grains. Make into sixty pills with a little
soft extract of mandrake or dandelion. This is the best pill that can
be used as a cathartic and liver pill and to act on the secretions
generally. As a purgative the dose is from two to four pills for a
grown person, and as an alterative and substitute for blue mass and to
act on the liver, one pill once a day or every other day.
ANTI-DYSPEPTIC PILLS.
Take Socotrine aloes, two drams; colocynth, gamboge, rhubarb, and
castile soap, each one dram; cayenne, thirty grains; oil cloves,
thirty drops. Make into one hundred and twenty pills with extract of
gentian or dandelion. Dose: For dyspepsia, inactive liver or
costiveness, one or two pills once a day; as a cathartic, three to
five pills at a dose. This is a splendid pill. It cleanses the
stomach, gives tone and energy to the digestive organs, restores the
appetite, excites the liver and other secretory organs, without
causing any debility.
ANOTHER ANTI-DYSPEPTIC PILL.
Take Quevenne's powdered metallic iron, forty grains; rhubarb, twenty
grains; extract of nux vomica, one grain. Triturate well in a small
mortar, so as to mix them perfectly, and make into twenty pills with
extract of boneset or gentian. Take one pill before each meal. This is
one of the best anti-dyspeptic pills known.
DYSPEPTIC LEY.
Take hickory ashes, one pint; soot, three or four ounces; boiling
water, two quarts. Pour on in a suitable vessel or crock, stir, and
let stand, over night, then pour off clear and bottle. Dose: Half a
teacupful three times a day, and if too strong weaken with water until
palatable. A sure remedy for dyspepsia.
AGUE PILLS.
Take quinine, twenty grains; piperine, ten grains; Dover's Powder, ten
grains; cayenne, ten grains. Mix, pulverize, and make into twenty
pills with a little gum arabic or extract of gentian or boneset. To be
taken at the rate of one pill an hour when there is no fever, or
during intermission, until twelve pills are taken, the balance to be
taken on the third day or next well day. Good as a remedy for the
chills or fever and ague.
CERTAIN REMEDY FOR THE AGUE OR INTERMITTENT FEVER.
Take quinine, twelve grains; ipecac and cayenne, of each six grains;
pulverized opium, three grains. Make into twelve pills with
precipitated extract of Peruvian bark, or if you cannot get this, use
either extract of dogwood or boneset, sufficient to form into pill
mass. Two or three pills to be taken every two or three hours, during
the well day or intermission, till all are taken. A very certain and
effectual remedy for the ague or intermittent fever.
FEVER POWDER.
Take finely pulverized gum myrrh, bloodroot, and lobelia seed, or
ipecac, of each half an ounce; gum camphor and nitre, of each two
drams. Pulverize, mix, and rub well together in a mortar, and bottle
for use. Dose: Three to five grains every hour of two during fever.
Good to allay the excitement, act on the skin and promote
perspiration; also a good expectorant powder in coughs, colds,
pneumonia, and oppressed breathing.
AGUE DROPS.
Take quinine, twenty grains; water, one ounce; sulphuric acid, twenty
drops. Mix in a vial. Dose: A teaspoonful every hour or every two
hours during the well day till all is taken. A certain cure for the
ague, or chills and fever.
SICK HEADACHE PILLS.
Take Socotrine aloes, gamboge, and castile soap, of each one dram;
ipecac and scammony, of each thirty grains; oil of anise, thirty
drops. Make into sixty pills with a little mucilage, gum arabic or
extract dandelion. Dose: One to three pills. Useful in sick headache,
habitual costiveness, dizziness, sour stomach, and indigestion, and
may be used whenever a good vegetable cathartic is needed. For an
attack of headache, take three pills, and repeat in three hours if the
first does not operate. Will invariably give relief.
ANODYNE HEADACHE PILLS.
Take extract of hyoscyamus, thirty grains; extract stramonium, ten
grains; quinine, twenty grains; morphine, two grains. Mix well and
make into twenty pills, adding a little powdered liquorice root, or
any other innocent powder, if necessary, to thicken the mass. The
pills are one of the best remedies known for nervous headache,
neuralgia in the face or head, toothache and nervous and neuralgic
pains in any part of the system, that I have ever used. Dose: One
pill, for a grown person, and may be repeated every two or three hours
till relief is obtained. The extract of belladonna may be used instead
of the stramonium, in the same proportion, with equally good effect.
RHEUMATIC PILLS.
Take jalap, colchicum seeds, and gum guaiac, of each one dram.
Pulverize and mix veil, and make into sixty pills with extract of poke
root (or berries). The dose is one or two pills three or four times a
day. Good in all cases of chronic rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, and
the like.
ANOTHER FOR SAME.
Take macrotin and pulverized gum guaiac, of each one dram;
podophyllin, ten grains. Make into sixty pills with extract of poke
root. Dose: One pill two or three times a day. An excellent pill for
rheumatism and neuralgia.
PILLS FOR DYSENTERY.
Take rhubarb, ipecac, and castile soap, each thirty grains; pulverized
opium, fifteen grains. Make into thirty pills with mucilage, gum
arabic, or any other suitable substance. Dose: One pill every three to
six hours for diarrhoea and dysentery. After three or four are taken
they should not be taken oftener than once in six hours.
ANOTHER FOR SAME.
Take leptandrin, forty grains; rhubarb, twenty grains; morphine, four
grains. Mix, and triturate well in a mortar so as to mix perfectly,
and make into twenty pills with mucilage of gum arabic. Dose: In
dysentery and diarrhoea, one pill every six to twelve hours. Two or
three pills are generally sufficient to cure any ordinary case, if
given during the early stage. They may be relied on in all cases and
stages of bowel diseases, and especially in dysentery. A second pill
may be given three hours after the first, a third six hours after the
second; after that not oftener than once in twelve hours, and never
more than one pill at a time.
EPILEPTIC PILLS.
Take sulphate of zinc, sixty grains; rhubarb and ipecac, each thirty
grains; cayenne, sixty grains. Make into sixty pills with extract of
hyoscyamus. Dose: One pill night and morning for one week, then leave
off for a week, and then resume again, and so on every other week. An
important remedy, and has cured many cases of epileptic fits when
taken in the early stages.
PILLS FOR ASTHMA.
Take powdered elecampane root, powdered liquorice root, powdered anise
seed, and sulphur, of each one dram. Make into ordinary sized pills
with a sufficient quantity of tar, and take three or four pills at
night on going to bed. This is an admirable remedy for asthma and
shortness of breath.
HYSTERIC PILLS.
Take asafoetida and carbonate of ammonia, of each one dram;
pulverized opium and macrotin, of each thirty grains. Melt the first
two articles over the fire, and then stir in the others. Mix well and
make into sixty pills. Dose: One or two pills, in cases of hysteric
fits, every two or three hours; also good in female nervous attacks
and spasmodic affections.
PILLS FOR CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
Take pulverized skunk cabbage root, two drams; pulverized extract of
liquorice, one dram; sanguinaria and macrotin, of each thirty grains.
Make into large sized pills (say from eighty to one hundred) with a
sufficient quantity of tar, and take one pill from three to six times
a day, and continue for several weeks if necessary. One of the best
remedies known for chronic bronchitis, and what is sometimes called
"clergyman's sore throat."
PILLS FOR NEURALGIA.
Hyoscyamus, extract of, one dram; extract of aconite, thirty grains;
macrotin, twenty grains; morphine, five grains. Make into forty pills,
thickening the mass, if necessary, with a little powdered liquorice or
ginger. Dose: One pill every three hours till relief is obtained. Good
in neuralgia and all severe nervous pains.
BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS.
Eat freely of raw table salt, or take a teaspoonful three or four
times a day of equal parts of powdered loaf sugar and rosin, or boil
an ounce of dried yellow dock root in a pint of milk. Take a cupful
two or three times a day.
FOR CONSUMPTION.
Take a teaspoonful of the expressed juice of horehound (the herb) and
mix it with a gill of new milk. Drink it warm every morning. If
persevered in it will perform wonders.
COUGH SYRUP.
Take horehound herb, elecampane root, spikenard root, ginseng root,
black cohosh, and skunk cabbage root, of each a good-sized handful.
Bruise and cover with spirits or whisky, and let stand ten days; then
put all in a suitable vessel, add about four quarts of water and
simmer slowly over a fire (but don't boil) for twelve hours, or till
reduced to about three pints, then strain and add one pint of strained
honey, half a pint each of number six, tincture lobelia, and tincture
bloodroot (the vinegar or acetic tincture of bloodroot is the best)
and four ounces of strong essence of anise, and you will have one of
the best cough syrups known. Dose: A tablespoonful three to six times
a day, according to circumstances. Good in all kinds of coughs and
incipient consumption.
SOOTHING COUGH MIXTURE.
Take mucilage of gum arabic, oil of sweet almonds, syrup of balsam
tolu, and wine of ipecac, of each one ounce; tincture of opium, half
an ounce. Dose: For a grown person, one to two teaspoonfuls as often
as required.
COUGH MIXTURE.
Take extract of liquorice, one ounce, powdered; nitrate of potash
(saltpetre) and muriate of ammonia, of each two drams. Dissolve in
half a pint of boiling water, and when cool add wine of ipecac, syrup
of balsam tolu, and essence of anise, of each one ounce. Dose: From a
teaspoonful to a tablespoonful several times a day. An excellent
remedy for bronchitis, colds, and catarrhal coughs.
EXPECTORANT TINCTURE.
Take pulverized lobelia (seed or herb), powdered bloodroot, and
powdered rattleroot (black cohosh), of each three ounces; alcohol and
good vinegar, of each one pint. Digest for ten days or two weeks, then
strain or filter and add four ounces each of wine of ipecac and
tincture balsam of tolu and one ounce strong essence of anise. A
portion of honey may be added if preferred. Dose: One to two
teaspoonfuls repeated as often as circumstances require. Highly useful
as an expectorant in coughs, colds, and all affections of the lungs.
COMPOUND TINCTURE OF MYRRH.
Take best gum myrrh, eight ounces; cayenne, balsam of fir, and
nutmegs, of each one ounce; good brandy, two quarts. Bruise the solid
articles, and let stand two weeks to digest (shake it once or twice
every day), then strain or filter. Or, it may be made for immediate
use by putting the whole in a stone jug and placing this in a warm
sand bath or in a vessel of boiling water for twenty-four hours,
shaking frequently. Dose: A teaspoonful is an ordinary dose for a
grown person. Good in colic, pains in the stomach and bowels,
diarrhoea, headache, sick stomach, and wherever a powerful stimulant
is indicated. It is also valuable as a wash or external application
for sprains, bruises, and foul ulcers and old sores. It is a
preparation that no family should be without.
SURE REMEDY FOR BOWEL COMPLAINTS.
Take half an ounce bruised turkey rhubarb and half an ounce saleratus,
steep or simmer slowly for fifteen minutes in a pint of water, strain
and add a teacupful of white sugar, and heat again to dissolve; then
add sixty drops oil of peppermint dissolved in one ounce of alcohol.
Dose: From a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every hour till relieved.
An excellent remedy for diarrhoea, dysentery, and especially adapted
to the bowel complaints of young children.
CORDIAL FOR SUMMER COMPLAINTS.
Take cloves, allspice, and cinnamon bark, of each half an ounce; white
oak bark, one ounce. Bruise all, and boil in one quart of water down
to half a pint; strain, add four ounces white sugar, dissolve by
melting, then add half as much good brandy as there is of the liquid.
Dose: One, two or three teaspoonfuls three to six times a day or
oftener, according to age and urgency of symptoms. An infallible cure
for cholera infantum, or summer complaints of children, and for all
bowel complaints.
SCROFULOUS SYRUP.
Take yellow dock root, two pounds; stillingia root and bark of
bittersweet root, of each one pound. Boil slowly in three or four
gallons of water down to three quarts; strain, and add six pounds of
white sugar. Dose: Half a wineglass three times a day. A valuable
remedy for scrofula, and all scrofulous skin diseases, as tetter,
herpes, leprosy, and the like; also a valuable alterative in all
constitutional diseases.
EYEWATER.
Take half an ounce each of green tea and lobelia herb, and tincture a
few days in four ounces of alcohol and water, equal parts. An
invaluable eyewater for weak eyes and all kinds of sore and inflamed
eyes. Use it two or three times a day.
TINCTURE FOR RHEUMATISM.
Take pulverized gum guaiac and allspice, of each four ounces;
bloodroot, pulverized, two ounces; pearlash, one ounce; fourth proof
brandy, one quart. Let stand and digest three or four days, shaking it
two or three times a day. Dose: A teaspoonful three or four times a
day, in a little milk, syrup or wine. An almost infallible remedy for
rheumatism.
WORM ELIXIR.
Take gum myrrh and aloes, of each one ounce; saffron, sage leaves, and
tansy leaves, of each half an ounce. Tincture in a pint of brandy for
two weeks, and give to children a teaspoonful once a week to once a
month as a preventive. They will never be troubled with worms as long
as you do this.
DR. JORDAN'S CHOLERA REMEDY.
Take gum guaiac, prickly ash berries (or double as much bark of the
root), cloves, and cinnamon bark, of each two ounces; gum camphor and
gum myrrh, of each one ounce; gum kino, half an ounce. Reduce all to a
coarse powder and add to one quart of best French brandy. Let it stand
ten days or two weeks to digest, shaking the bottle two or three times
a day to keep the ingredients from becoming impacted at the bottom;
then strain and press out, and then take oil anise and oil peppermint,
of each two drams; alcohol, four ounces. Mix the oils and alcohol
together in a bottle and shake well till they are cut, then add to the
former, and it is ready for use. Dose: From one to two teaspoonfuls
every five, ten, fifteen or thirty minutes, according to the urgency
of the symptoms. In cholera it should be given frequently, and if
there are nausea and vomiting small doses are preferable; a single
teaspoonful every five minutes till urgent symptoms are checked, then
give it less frequently. It should always be given alone, unmixed with
anything else. In ordinary diarrhoea, one or two teaspoonfuls taken
once an hour will be sufficient. It is also an excellent remedy for
colic and pains in the stomach and bowels, and will generally settle
the stomach very soon in case of vomiting or nausea. It should always
be kept in the house. Where it is needed for immediate use, it may be
made in an hour or less by using alcohol instead of brandy and by
boiling all in a stone jug, uncorked, by placing the jug in a vessel
of boiling water, shaking or stirring frequently.
PILE OINTMENT.
Take say a teacupful of hog's lard, put in a flat or pewter dish, and
take two bars of lead, flattened a little, and rub the lard with the
flat ends and between them till it becomes black or of a dark lead
color. Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather
in an iron vessel till charred. Powder these and mix into the lard
till it becomes a thick ointment. Use once or twice a day as an
ointment for the piles. An infallible cure.
WARTS AND CORNS.
The bark of the common willow burnt to ashes, mixed with strong
vinegar and applied to the parts, will remove all warts, corns, and
other excrescences.
DEAFNESS.
It is seldom that the power of hearing once entirely lost can ever be
restored, and not always that even partial deafness can be cured,
though it may often be relieved. Partial deafness is frequently owing
to the accumulation and hardening in the ear of the ear wax, which may
generally be remedied by dropping into the ear such articles as are
calculated to soften, relax, and stimulate. For this purpose the
following preparations are recommended as the best:
Take sulphuric ether, one ounce, and add to it one dram pulverized
carbonate of ammonia. Let it stand a few days to form a solution. If
it does not all dissolve, pour off carefully the liquid from the
dregs, and of this liquid drop into the ear once a day from three to
six drops. The patient should lay his head upon the opposite side at
the time, and remain in that position a few minutes to allow the
liquid to penetrate. This preparation is highly recommended, and if
persevered in will, it is said, overcome almost any partial deafness
or greatly relieve it.
ANOTHER.
Take pure olive oil, say one ounce, and half an ounce each of the
tincture of lobelia and tincture of cayenne. Mix; and from a warm
teaspoon drop into the ear four to six drops of this twice a day,
shaking the vial well always before using it. This is relaxing,
softening, and stimulating, and in all ordinary cases will answer the
purpose. Turkey oil (or grease) is said to be still better than olive
oil and may be used instead of it in this preparation. The following
remedy, long kept a secret, is said to be infallible where it is
possible for anything to effect a cure:
Take a common eel, remove the skin and intestines, and hang it up
before the fire and let the oil drip into a pan or vessel. When done
dripping, bottle the oil, and of this drop into the ear once a day or
twice a day five or six drops from a warm teaspoon. I have heard
remarkable accounts of the efficacy of this remedy, and doubt not but
it is good. I believe it has never been published but once before. The
secret was obtained with some difficulty from an old negro.
INVERTED TOE-NAIL.
This is a very troublesome and often painful affection. The edges or
sides of the nail are disposed to turn down and grow into the flesh,
giving rise to inflammation, ulceration, and often great pain and
suffering. The best remedy I have ever known in this difficulty is to
scrape with some sharp-pointed instrument, as the point of a penknife,
a sort of groove or gutter in the center of the nail lengthways from
the root to the end. It must be scraped down to near the quick, or as
thin as it can be borne. This renders the nail "weak in the back," so
that it will gradually and ultimately turn up at the sides until the
edges come above and over the flesh. Continue this as fast as the nail
grows out and grows thicker, and you will eventually succeed in
getting the nail in its proper shape and position. It will be proper
to poultice if there is much inflammation, and also apply healing
salve. If ulceration, bathe the part also occasionally with tinctures
aloes, myrrh, and opium, equal parts mixed.--_Gunn's Domestic
Physician._