The housekeeper's guide, or, Every man his own doctor : Containing many valuable receipts and prescriptions (approved of by the most eminent physicians), for the cure of the human body, &c. to which is added a description of different kinds of baths, bathing, electricity, &c. also a treatment of the cholera.

Date:
1837
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Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or, Every man his own doctor : Containing many valuable receipts and prescriptions (approved of by the most eminent physicians), for the cure of the human body, &c. to which is added a description of different kinds of baths, bathing, electricity, &c. also a treatment of the cholera. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    138 Carminative powder. Of Coriander seed half an ounce, of ginger one drachm, nutmegs half a drachm, fine sugar a drachm and a half. Reduce them into powder for twelve doses. This powder is employed for expelling flatu- lences arising from indigestion, particularly those to which hysteric and hypochondriac persons are so liable. It may likewise be given in small quantities to children in their food when troubled with gripes. 139 Saline laxative powder. Take of soluble tartar and cream of tartar, each one drachm, purified nitre half a drachm. Make them into a powder. In fevers and other inflamma- tory disorders, where it is necessary to keep the body gently open, one of these cooling laxative powders may be taken in a little gruel, and repeated occa- sionally, 140 Sudorijic powder. Take purified nitre and vitriolated tartar, of each half an ounce, opium and ipecacuanha, of each one drachm. Mix the ingredients, and reduce them to a fine powder. This is generally known by the name of Dover’s Powder. It is a powerful sudorific. In obstinate rheumatisms, and other cases where it is necessary to excite a copious sweat, this powder may be administered in the dose of a scruple, or half a drachm. Some patients will require two scruples. It ought to be accompanied with the plentiful use of some warm diluting liquor. 141 Worm powder. Take of tin reduced into a fine powder an ounce; iEthiop’s mineral two drachms. Mix them well to- gether, and divide the whole into six doses. One of these powders may be taken in a little syrup, honey, D