A compendium of domestic medicine1865 |
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Page 180 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Page 344 - Orangeade, or Lemonade. Squeeze the juice ; pour boiling water on a little of the peel, and cover close. Boil water and sugar to a thin syrup, and skim it. When all are cold, mix the juice, the infusion, and the Syrup, with as much more water as will make a rich sherbet ; strain through a jellybag. Or squeeze the juice, and strain it, and add water and capillaire.
Page 7 - ... used by curriers is due to colouring matters derived from the decomposing hepatic tissues and fluids, or from the action of air on the oil. Chemical analysis lends no support to the opinion, at one time entertained, that the brown oil was superior, as a therapeutical agent, to the pale oil. Chemistry has not discovered any substances in the brown oil which could confer on it superior activity as a medicine.
Page 335 - An egg divided, and the yolk and white beaten separately, with a little wine put to each, will afford two very wholesome draughts, and prove lighter than when taken together. Eggs very little boiled, or poached, taken in small quantity, convey much nourishment ; the yolk only, when dressed...
Page 341 - Rub smooth a large spoonful of oatmeal, with two of water, and pour it into a pint of water boiling on the fire ; stir it well, and boil it quick ; but take care it does not boil over. In a quarter of an hour strain it off; and add salt and a bit of butter when eaten. Stir until the butter be incorporated. Barley Gruel. Wash four ounces of pearl-barley ; boil it in two quarts of water and a stick of cinnamon, till reduced to a quart ; strain, and return it into the saucepan with sugar, and three...
Page 343 - ... as will completely turn it, and it looks clear; let it boil up, then set the saucepan aside till the curd subsides, and do not stir it. Pour the whey off, and add to it half a pint of boiling water, and a bit of white sugar. Thus you will have a whey perfectly cleared of milky particles, and as weak as you choose to make it.
Page 339 - Iceland moss has been in the highest repute on the Continent as a most efficacious remedy in incipient pulmonary complaints: combined with chocolate, it will be found a nutritious article of diet, and may be taken as a morning and evening beverage.
Page 339 - Asses' Milk Far surpasses any imitation of it that can be made. It should be milked into a glass that is kept warm by being in a basin of hot water. The fixed air that it contains gives some people a pain in the stomach. At first a tea-spoonful of rum may be taken with it, but should only be put in the moment it is to be swallowed. Artificial Asses
Page xv - ... doses than men, and the state of the uterine system must never be overlooked. TEMPERAMENT. Stimulants and purgatives more readily affect the sanguine than the phlegmatic, and consequently the former require smaller doses. HABITS. The knowledge of...
Page 335 - Boil a chicken till about three parts ready in a quart of water ; take off the skin, cut the white meat off when cold, and put into a marble mortar : pound it to a paste with a little of the water it was boiled in, season with salt, a grate of nutmeg, and the least bit of lemon peel.