The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily.

  • Daily, William.
Date:
1848
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Credit: The Indian doctor's practice of medicine : Daily's family physician : important to every one--health, the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss : giving the symptoms of diseases, and a vegetable treatment of the diseases of men, women, and children / by William Daily. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CURE FOR FOUL ULCERS OR SORE LEGS, Very common at the present day. Take pure extract ol stremoniem leaves as a common salve. If this fails, urn the extract of the bark of beach tree, by boiling the bark: it will be clear as crystal, by pulling it like shoemaker's wax. Apply this as a common salve, or take the leavt s of the beach tree, which is excellent to heal old sores, and to cleanse the blood. TO STOP VOMITING. Take cayenne pepper, poultice the stomach, and ihe puking will cease inStior 30 minutes. 2: take one spoonful of vine- gar, one .spoTm'ful lump sugar, one spoonful of the white of hen's eggs, and beat them together : give a spoonful each 20 minutes. 3: take chicken gizzards; cast off the inside of the gizzard, boil, and give the tea. 4 : take 2 of the berries of blue, or rather the white on the top of cohash—it grows near the blue cohash : three or four of the berries are a sure cure for puking. The above used by the Indians in Iowa. FEVER IN THE FEET. Leaves of bitter root and dog's bone will cure burning hands or feet by using the tea freely : they will also cure bowel complaint: the leaves an astringent—the root a cathai tic. WORM SYRUP. Take yellow poplar bark 1 ounce, black haw root, 1 oi wormwood leaves I ounce, and spice bush bark 4 ounces, reduce to a syrup by boiling; add sugar and spirits suffi- cient to preserve; then add to each ounce three grains of copperas. Dose—A teaspoonful three times a day; give oil after using a day, or add to your syrup the tincture of