Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    41)4 OF CONSULrlPTlONS. above mentioned, hxi been confirmed by the testimony of many ac- cunite observers. . , The lichin is purely and to a high degree mucilaginous; Out notwithstanding this plant Iwsbeen in great repute as a remedy both as aliment and a medicine in pulmonary complamts, and as a restora- tive in tabes dorsalis, it >vas scarcely noticed m the triedrca practice of this country until Drs. Crichton, Recce, and Regnault, la ely recommended it to the public. We shall have reason to congratulate our readers, if future experience justify the high, we fear too flatter- in encomiums they have bestowed upon it, as having effected a cure inmany cases of phthisis, which those gentlemen, and other writers on th° continent, have adduced. In order to obtain the virtues of the lichen islandicus, it must be infused in boiling water, to separate all the earthy particles which adhere to it and to take off the bitterness which renders it disagree- able- after which it may be boiled in water, or milk, just as it is in- iend'ed to employ the mucilage obtained in this manner either as food or mSicine. It may be rendered more or less agreeable by the ad- conSat in sl*e degree all the medicinal properties of the J::ZoT: U^y is direct to be formed by ounces of the lichen with three quarts of sprmg water foi' an hour press ?L boil ng decoction through a fine hair sieve, and then put it ove: n Sow fire in a jelly-bason, and let it evaporate till it is reduced to a nin^ the« add bounces of refined sugar, and evaporate the mixture Srv'ou have a pound of thick syrup, which, when cold will assume e cons steLe of a jelly. Four to six table-spoonsful of this prepa- /^LT s tfb^ tLn in the courseof the day. As this anti-phthisica rredy i pectoral, agglutinent, and demulcent, affording nutriment 3 support vvithout producing inordinate irritation, it may be u luv ei^^ as'an auxiliary to lore powerful remedie eJifeSly w^ patient is taking, under the direction of skill and ^rirSl^^u^S or moss, in the ^rm of a ^^The Icelanders and many of the Dutch physicians use Uiis herb the little suLns ^uu ^ , . gently heated, after being wasned in co d ' ^e ^^^^^^^^^ passed through T '^::::^t^e^M^^k ^ arrinsoluble,and l!::^:^^^^^^^- ^his (.rL ... be taken in doses oi . so a