A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means.

  • Hickman, William, of Henley-on-Thames.
Date:
[1815?]
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Credit: A familiar treatise on rheumatism, and rheumatic affections : in which a popular view of these distressing maladies, their causes, symptoms, and methods of cure are so clearly arranged, that any person of common understanding may safely prescribe therefrom, principally by the use of domestic means. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

    18/35 (page 16)
    Cupping and blisters may be necessary, but to go warmly clothed with woollen is of the first consequence. When by a long continuance of pain, the affected parts become rigid and stiff, let the parts be held over the steam of hot water, and continue the same once or twice a day, observing always to wipe the parts dry with warm linen, and then anoint them with a little ointment of marsh mallows. If this does not alleviate the pain, rub on the part sparingly, a little spirits of turpentine; or you may foment the parts with warm decoc- tions of mallows, and after wiping dry, rub on the parts a little opodeldoc^ or black soap and gin as mentioned before, or water in which horse-^raddish has been steeped. There are some cold Rheumatisms which will submit to a spoonful of bruised mustard seed taken daily; or by a pint of whey, turned by boiling a large spoonful of fresh mustard seed in milk, and taking a pint every night and morning.