Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : adapted for families in the middling, & genteel ranks of life, with a complete family physician, instructions for making British wines, brewing, baking, &c., &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond.

  • Hammond, Elizabeth.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book : adapted for families in the middling, & genteel ranks of life, with a complete family physician, instructions for making British wines, brewing, baking, &c., &c. / by Elizabeth Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    2/7 nourishing, and taken in moderate quantities, and coftee should be avoided. Tea Flatulency. Gentle laxatives, moderate exercise, and a careful wet, are the only remedies for this unpleasant dis- ease, which is either occasioned by intemperance or costiveness. ^ Gout. 'I'he patient should abstain from all fermented and spirituous liquors, and be very moderate in the use of wine; all fat, rancid, and salted provi- sions, as well as all high seasoned dishes, should be carefully avoided. Barley bread should be eaten constantly, and large doses of ginger boiled in milk should be used for breakfast. Absorbent powders of two scruples of magnesia, and four graius each of purified kali and rhubarb, should be taken dur- ing the intervals of the gouty fits, and repeated every other morning for several weeks. The feet should be kept warm, and sinapisms frequently ap- plied lo them, and the affected part should be' covered with flannel. Gravel. This disease is sometimes occasioned by the gout and rheumatism, it is also promoted by the use of sour liquors, food that is difficult of digestion, es- pecially cheese, and by a sedentary life. Respira- tion'should be promoted by gentle methods; con- stant temperance should be observed in respect to the food, and moderate exercise should be taken. For medicine, take the juice of horse-radish, made into a thin syrup, by mixing it with sugar, of which take a spoonful every four hours. U