Valuable advice and natural cures without cost or drugs / by Professor Bute.

  • Bute (Professor)
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Valuable advice and natural cures without cost or drugs / by Professor Bute. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tomatoes are a powrful aperient for the liver—a grand remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion. Watercress is a good remedy for scurvy and liver. GOUT Is mostly confined to the joints, and usually affects the big toe. Gout is caused by eating rich and greasy food and drinking alcoholic beverages. Vegetarians and water iirinkers are seldom or never troubled with,this complaint. . It is easier to prevent Gout than to cure it. Plunge^ the gouty foot into a bucket of cold water'until the pain ^subsides, or until the inflammation has abated, then apply ' cold water pad (see page 24) ; renew it every hour. Another good remedy is to boil potatoes with their skins on until they-begin to niash strain off. Bathe the . parts well in the potato water, warm. Work the potatoes into a pulp, place thickly upon the parts affected, warm, and tie on with cloth ; leave on for five or.six hours-; then remove and wash with cold water. .Rub dryland apply again. ' , . - Avoid tea, coffee, meat,'alcoholic liquors, salt, tobacco. Live on good sound fruit, rice, celery, tomatoes, dates, wholemeal bread, oatmeal, &c. Take plenty of outdoor exercise. SCIATICA Is usually caused by exhaustion, amatory excesses, bad food, and exposure to draughts. It commences with severe pain in the hips, striking downwards to the knee, ankle, ^iid it is a rheumatic affection of the sciatica nerve. A piece of flannelette several times folded, wrung out of cold water, should be placed upon^the part where the pain is, and covered with several thicknesses of dr}^ flannel: it may be kept upon the part by wearing a pair of tight drawers. This should be renewed morning, noon and night, and the part well washed in cold water Tw'o or three Sitz Baths may be taken daily, com-’ mencing at 98 degrees F. Remain in the warm water 8 minuter, letting the w^ater gradually, cool dowm until it is quite cold ; then rub the parts w ith the bare hands. The wet pad may also be worn during the night (see last page). Take no tea, coffee, alcoholic drinks or tobacco, or , anything of an exciting nature, as highly-seasoned foods, condiments, &c. Keep the bowels regular. Avoid undue mental excitement and amatory action.