The poor man's doctor, or Extracts from eminent physicians' writings1849 |
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Page 3 - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Page 17 - Too many practitioners forget that nature commonly resorts to the mildest and most soothing means, and that by such means the most signal advantages are most surely gained. Her mode of operation is uniformly not to pull down, but to build up ; and the means which she employs are those which secure to the patient simultaneously an increase of strength, comfort, and health. This should...
Page 23 - I have long been convinced that this state is only to be removed by a slight effect regularly kept up for a considerable length of time. All powerful means, which are necessarily transitory, because they would soon destroy the patient if they were continued, fail to cure, and very often aggravate it. In the first stage, when the first is unimpaired, and the habit of the disease feeble, powerful means will sometimes at once check its progress.
Page 27 - ... grains; simple syrup, or mucilage of gum arabic, a sufficient quantity to form the whole into a mass of a proper consistence. Divide it into thirty pills. Two or three of these pills are to be taken three times a day. They are of great value as a tonic in indigestion, bilious...
Page 37 - Take of Mallows dried, an ounce, Chamomile flowers dried, half an ounce, Water a pint ; Boil for a quarter of an hour, and strain.
Page 33 - ... of sarsaparilla root sliced, four ounces ; boiling water, four pints. Macerate for four hours in a vessel lightly covered and placed near the fire ; then take out the sarsaparilla, and bruise it. Return it again to the liquor, and macerate in a similar manner for four hours more, first adding of raspings of guaiacum wood, bark of sassafras root, liquorice root bruised, of each an ounce ; bark of mezereon root, three drachms. Finally, strain.
Page 42 - YEAST POULTICE. Take of flour, a pound ; yeast of beer, half a pint ; mix, and expose the mixture to a gentle heat, until it begins to swell, when it is fit for use. SIMPLE OINTMENT. Take olive (sweet) oil, five parts ; white wax, two parts ; melt together. May be used for softening the skin, and healiiig chaps and excoriations.
Page 41 - James' powder, twelve grains ; conserve enough to form into twelve pills. One to be taken at bed time, occasionally. ADHESIVE PLASTER. Take of yellow resin, half a pound ; lead plaster, three pounds ; melt the lead plaster by a gentle heat, then add the resin in powder, and mix. This is the plaster commonly applied to cuts, and to hold together the edges of recent wounds. ANODYNE PLASTER. Take of hard opium, powdered, half an ounce ; resin of spruce fir, powdered, three ounces ; lead plaster, a pound,...
Page 42 - Melt soap and lead plaster together, and when the mixture is nearly cold, add the sal-ammoniac. This is to be spread on leather, and applied to the chest immediately after it is spread. It must be removed every twenty-four hours, otherwise the intention is lost.
Page 36 - Take of solution of acetate of ammonia, two ounces ; distilled water, hot, six ounces ; soft extract of opium, ten grains. Dissolve the soft extract of opium in the hot water, strain through fine linen, and add the solution of acetate of ammonia.