Bread And Water Poultice

Scald out a basin, into which boiling water is to be turned, then add coarsely-crumbled bread as much as the water will absorb. After a little time drain off the surplus water, and spread the light pulp remaining one-third of an inch thick on folded linen, and apply it of the temperature of a warm bath. As it becomes dry from the heat of the part, moisten by dropping on a little warm water.

Fever And Ague

The title of intermittent is applied to that kind of fever, which consists of a succession of paroxysms, between each of which there is a distinct and perfect intermission from fever symptoms. When it comes on within the space of twenty-four hours, it is called a quoitidian, when it returns every other day, it is called a tertian; and when it attends on the first and fourth day, it is named a quartan ague. It is very generally acknowledged that marsh exhalations, or the effluvia arising from stagnant water when acted upon by heat, are the most frequent exciting causes of ague.

Uncleared lands are also a fruitful cause. Hence its prevalence in all new countries. Intermittent fever often appears in disguise; sometimes putting on the form of periodical headache or neuralgia, which come on with the same regularity as the chill, and seem to take its place. At other times it is still more obscure, existing in the form of dumb ague, as it is termed. Under all these disguises there is usually but little difficulty in detecting it, through its regular periodical return - being generally prompt to the hour, and not unfrequently to the minute. Periodicity, therefore, rather than peculiar symptoms, is the test of miasmal complaints. The usual mode of treating fever and ague has been with tonics, with the view of breaking the chill, but nothing is done to remove the disease of the liver and other organs on which the chill and fever depend. Relapses are the consequence. The sufferer is only cured for a time: he is relieved of a symptom of disease, not of the disease itself. We know of no compound more reliable for a thorough and effectual cure than Osgood's Cholgogue, a medicine which has been before the public more than thirty years, and has become the standard remedy for these complaints. The publisher of this book has for a long time used it himself, and in his family, and often recommended it to others, and is yet to learn of an instance in which it has failed to effect a cure. It is especially valuable also as a preventive for persons residing in malarial regions, or traveling through them. By taking a teaspoonful of the cholagogue, morning and night, when thus exposed, all danger, with ordinary care, will be avoided.

Erysipelas

This disease is an inflammatory affection principally of the skin, when it makes its appearance externally. If there is fever and inflammation, it will be proper to administer aperient medicines, and nothing, perhaps, suits your purpose better than the old-fashioned black-draught - senna and salts. The ex-ternal application of Goulard's Lotion will allay heat and irritation. The patient must drink freely of tea, bran tea, or warm barley water, and this is a necessary part of the treatment, which must never be neglected. The vesicles must be kept lightly covered with pure, unadulterated wheat flour; when the inflammatory symptoms run high, the diet must consist of light nourishing food, such as sago, arrowroot, bread pudding, and such like things; but in those cases where symptoms of irritation prevail, a more generous diet, such as animal broths, ought to be allowed.

Spirit Wash

Half a gill of spirits of wine, or a gill of brandy, added to a pint of water, makes this wash useful in allaying the pain of extensive bruises.

Plummer's Pill, For Eruptions On The Skin

Calomel and antimony, of each, one drachm; guaiacum powder, two drachms.

Useful Mixture For Diarrhoea In Infants

Carbonate of magnesia, half a drachm; rhubarb, in powder, twenty grains; dill water, three ounces; aromatic spirit of ammonia, thirty drops; sugar, teaspoonful. Mix: Two teaspoon-fuls may be given two or three times a day.

Goulard Lotion, or Lead Wash, may be made by dissolving one drachm of sugar of lead in a pint of soft water. Some persons are very fond of using this wash, with the addition of spirits of wine, as an evaporate; but I do not like it, for it renders the skin very dry. and harsh, and its sedative virtue acting through unbroken skin, is not of much value. Under other circumstances it is very often useful.

When used as a wash for the eyes, two grains of the sugar of lead are to be dissolved in two table-spoonfuls of water.

Bran Tea

A very cheap and useful drink in colds, fevers, and restlessness from pain. Put a handful of bran in a pint and a half of cold water, let it boil rather more than half an hour, then strain it, and, if desired, flavor with sugar and lemon-juice; but it is a pleasant drink without any addition.

Electuary For Scorbutic Eruptions

Peruvian bark, powdered, half an ounce; aromatic confection, half an ounce; syrup of oranges, sufficient quantity to mix the bark and confection; and take the size of a nutmeg, three times a day, in a glass of seidlitz or soda water.

Draught For Hysteric Patients

Camphor mixture, one ounce; foetid spirit of ammonia, two drachms.

Fever Draught

Almond mixture, one ounce; carbonate of potass, twenty grains; syrup of poppies, one drachm. Pour into this a table-spoonful of lemon juice, and drink while effervescing.

Ointments

The base of all ointments is grease, and they are used for dressing wounds and sores, to prevent the sticking of the lint or linen with which they are covered, and protect them from the air; the most simple kinds serve this purpose best; but sometimes medicine of various kinds is mixed up with grease, to form ointments, through the means of which the medicine acts on the surface of the sore.