Kennedy on diseases of the skin.

  • Kennedy, Donald, 1812-1889.
Date:
[1858?]
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    not get either of my ointments, I would recommend to tnem to use the common citrine jointment of the apothecaries, as one of the best preparations in use. Yellow dock ointment, and an ointment of oak bark and indigo weed, are excellent; take cream, put it in a cloth, bury it in rich black earth, in a few days it will become thick; it is one of the best applications you can use—always recollecting to bathe the sore with equal parts of Medical Discovery and pure cider vinegar, until it comes to a healthy state; occasionally you will wash it with alum water; this will close and make tight the flesh or sides. • Care must always be taken that an ulcer does not close from the top. The bottom is to be well fed with flesh breeding herbs. Be sure that sound flesh grows from the bottom, otherwise it will certainly break out again. Drying medicines are not to be much used until the flesh has grown from the bottom and is even with the surface, or else there will be a depression of the surface when it is healed. When the leg is highly inflamed you will apply the common carrot poultice, or raw potatoes, scraped and laid on. In some cases a fomentation of bitter herbs is best, such as wormwood, snake head, or tansy—this is to be laid on, being excellent in al 1 kinds of swelling. RHEUMATISM. Hippocrates says of this disease, that its primary cause is a thin wheyish humor, which by reason of its thinness doth not swell the parts, and because the substance thereof, not apt to turn to Quitor or matter, it never maketh imposthumes, but only a certain inflammatory disposition, arising from the fever of the wheyish humor. Now the cause of it is to be ascribed to the Liver, which being affected with a ho distemper, and being weakened, breeds not good blood fit for to nourish, and affect the whole body with weakness, whereby it becometh exceedingly disposed to receiv e all superfluities. And from the distemper and weakness of the Liver, great quantitie of evil humor do arise, which being detained in the veins they become viciously cor- rupt, are there dissolved and turned to the nature of wheyish and blood-watery humor, as an heavy burden, is by nature cast to the limbs, she not being strong enough to cast it out of the whole body, &c. I sold over five hundred bottles of the Discovery before I knew it was good for the Rheumatism. Mrs. Everett, of Dorchester, had seen the effect of it on humors, and tried it for Rheumatism, with perfect success ; since then I gave it to s»v«ri\, and' 1- ways with a like result. CANKER. Canker of the mouth and stomach is the same as Salt Rheum outward, and is caused by an excess of lymph, causing an inflammation that runs from the mouth through th bowels, creating what is called inward fever, and a train of very disagreeable feelings. Two or three bottles will cure the worst case. NURSING SORE MOUTH. This is a very sore affliction to an affectionate mother, and no remedy was ever Known for it except gold thread, and borax and honey. If that did not give relief she had to wean her babe. It was one of those diseases that did not excite much atten- tion