Or, Powdered Senna, 1 ounce ; flour
of Sulphur, % ounce ; powdered ginger,
2 drachms ; powdered saffron, %
drachm✪ Senna and Ginger Mixture. Size of a nutmeg to be taken
night and morning, in treacle or honey.
Or two ounces of best honey, and one
ounce of castor oil✪ Honey and Castor Oil Mixture mixed. A tea-
spoonful or two to be taken night and
morning.
Carraway and Sweet Fennel seeds of
each half an ouncej; boil in a pint of
vinegar about twenty minutes ; take it
off the fire, and add three ounces of
sliced Garlic. Cover up, and when
cold, squeeze and strain, and by gentle
heat, mix with it a pound and a quarter
AST
of good honey. A tea-spoonful or two
to be taken night and morning.
To relieve the breathing, steep
some blotting paper in a strong solution
of saltpetre ; dry it, and light a portion
when going to bed, lay it on a plate.
Many have experienced much relief
from this.
ASTHMA.— The Rev. J. Wes-
ley recommend.': the following : — A pint
oi cold water every morning, and wash
the head in cold water, and using the
cold bath once in two weeks. -Or a
decoction of liquorice often gives relief.
Or half a pint of tar water twice a
day. Or live a fortnight chiefly on
boiled carrots. It SELDOM FAILS.
Many have been cured by this diet.
Or take from ten _ to sixty drops of
Elixir of Vitriol in’ a glass of spring
water three or four times a day. Or
into a quart of boiling water put a tea-
spoonful of Balsamic iEther ; receive
the steam into the lungs, through a
fumigator, twice a day.
Balsamic Alt her is made thus :
— Put 4 ozs. of Spirits of Wine, and
one ounce of Balsam of Tolu, into a
phial, with one ounce of iEther. Keep
it well corked. It will not keep above
a week or two. Or, vomit with warm
water, and always keep the body open.
— Wesley.
To prevent a return of a fit of
Asthma, or to relieve Asthma. —
Keep the bowels gently open with Rhu-
barb, or some other mild aperient, and
strengthen the tone of the stomach by
bitter infusions, as Camomile, Gentian,
and Quinine. When the chest is con-
stricted, apply mustard, or blistering
plasters, and take an emetic occasionally
to clear out the phlegm from the bron-
chial passages — avoid everything difficult
of digestion — wear flannel next the skin
— avoid a bleak damp air, easterly winds
and take constant exercise. An animal
diet, rather light, is preferable to a
vegetable diet.
ASTHMATIC COUGH.—
Take Spanish liquorice, two ounces, salt
of tartar, half an ounce ; boil the liquor
in three pints of water to a quart : add
the salt to it when it is blood warm.
Drink two spoonfuls of this every two
. hours. It seldom fails. I have known
jithis cure an inveterate moist asthma.
AST
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ATR
ASTRINGENTS. — Medicines which contract the living fibre. Their
more immediate effect is to diminish excretion and secretion, acting subsequently
as a tonic ; they are remedies for debility, inward or external haemorrhage,
injurious secretions from the glands, fluxes, & c. The following is a List of
Astringents : —
ALUM, POWDERED
AROMATIC CONFECTION
BISTORT, root of
CATECHU, TINCTURE OR ...
CHALK, PREPARED
CINNAMON, TINCTURE OF
ELIXIR OF VITRIOL
GALLS
GALLS, TINCTURE OF
IRON, SULPHATE OF
IRON, FILINGS OF ...
IRON, TARTAR! ZED
IRON, SUBCARBONATE OF .
KINO, POWDER OF ... .,
KINO GUM, TINCTURE OF
LOGWOOD, DECOCTION OF
LOGWOOD, EXTRACT OF
OAK, POWDERED BARK OF
PERUVIAN BARK
ROSE WILLOW, decoction of
RASPBERRY LEAVES, infusion of
ROSES, RED, THE PETALS OF ..
Consult me
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Or, Powdered Senna, 1 ounce ; flour of Sulphur, % ounce ; powdered ginger, 2 drachms ; powdered saffron, % drachm. Size of a nutmeg to be taken night and morning, in treacle or honey. Or two ounces of best honey, and one ounce of castor oil mixed. A teaspoonful or two to be taken night and morning.
Carraway and Sweet Fennel seeds of each half an ouncej; boil in a pint of vinegar about twenty minutes ; take it off the fire, and add three ounces of sliced Garlic. Cover up, and when cold, squeeze and strain, and by gentle heat, mix with it a pound and a quarter
AST
of good honey. A tea-spoonful or two to be taken night and morning.
To relieve the breathing, steep some blotting paper in a strong solution of saltpetre ; dry it, and light a portion when going to bed, lay it on a plate. Many have experienced much relief from this.
ASTHMA.— The Rev. J. Wesley recommends the following : — A pint of cold water every morning, and wash the head in cold water, and using the
cold bath once in two weeks. -Or a
decoction of liquorice often gives relief.
Or half a pint of tar water twice a
day. Or live a fortnight chiefly on boiled carrots. It SELDOM FAILS.
Many have been cured by this diet.
Or take from ten _ to sixty drops of Elixir of Vitriol in’ a glass of spring
water three or four times a day. Or
into a quart of boiling water put a teaspoonful of Balsamic Æther ; receive the steam into the lungs, through a fumigator, twice a day.
Balsamic Æther is made thus : — Put 4 ozs. of Spirits of Wine, and one ounce of Balsam of Tolu, into a phial, with one ounce of iEther. Keep it well corked. It will not keep above
a week or two. Or, vomit with warm
water, and always keep the body open. — Wesley.
To prevent a return of a fit of Asthma, or to relieve Asthma. — Keep the bowels gently open with Rhubarb, or some other mild aperient, and strengthen the tone of the stomach by bitter infusions, as Camomile, Gentian, and Quinine. When the chest is constricted, apply mustard, or blistering plasters, and take an emetic occasionally to clear out the phlegm from the bronchial passages — avoid everything difficult of digestion — wear flannel next the skin — avoid a bleak damp air, easterly winds and take constant exercise. An animal diet, rather light, is preferable to a vegetable diet.
ASTHMATIC COUGH.— Take Spanish liquorice, two ounces, salt of tartar, half an ounce ; boil the liquor in three pints of water to a quart : add the salt to it when it is blood warm. Drink two spoonfuls of this every two . hours. It seldom fails. I have known this cure an inveterate moist asthma.
AST
ATR
ASTRINGENTS. — Medicines which contract the living fibre. Their more immediate effect is to diminish excretion and secretion, acting subsequently as a tonic ; they are remedies for debility, inward or external haemorrhage, injurious secretions from the glands, fluxes, & c. The following is a List of
Astringents : —
ALUM, POWDERED
AROMATIC CONFECTION
BISTORT, root of
CATECHU, TINCTURE OR ...
CHALK, PREPARED
CINNAMON, TINCTURE OF ELIXIR OF VITRIOL
GALLS
GALLS, TINCTURE OF IRON, SULPHATE OF IRON, FILINGS OF ...
IRON, TARTAR! ZED IRON, SUBCARBONATE OF .
KINO, POWDER OF ... .,
KINO GUM, TINCTURE OF LOGWOOD, DECOCTION OF LOGWOOD, EXTRACT OF OAK, POWDERED BARK OF
PERUVIAN BARK
ROSE WILLOW, decoction of RASPBERRY LEAVES, infusion of ROSES, RED, THE PETALS OF ..
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