New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice upon a plan entirely new. With a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for the preparing and administering them to cure disease. To which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1832
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Credit: New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice upon a plan entirely new. With a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for the preparing and administering them to cure disease. To which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, _ 68 Be The only preparation necessary, is, to have it ground or pounded to a fine powder, _Fora dose, from half to a tea spoonful may be taken in hot water, sweetened, or the same quantity may be mixed with either of the other numbers when taken. It will produce a free perspiration, which should be kept up by repeating the dose, until the disease is removed. A spoonful, with an equal quantity of common salt, put into a gill of vinegar, makes a very good sauce, to be eaten on meat, and wil} assist the appeti(e and strengthen the digestion, One spoonful of this preparation may be taken to good advantage, and will remove faint, sinking feel- ings, which some are subject to, especially in the Spring of the year. Pepper.sauce is good for the Same purpose. A tea spoonftlf of Cayenne muy be taken in a tumbler of cider, and is much better than ardent spirits. There is scarce any preparation of mecicine that I make use of in which I do not put some of this article. It will cure the ague in the face, by taking a dose, and tying a small quantity in fine Jorn, and put it between the cheek and teeth on the side that is affected, setuing by the fire cover- ed with a blanket. It is good to put on old sures, z _ RED PEPPERS, ™ These are very plenty in this country, being cul- tivated in gardens, and are principally made use of for pickling, for which purpose the pods are gathered when green and preserved in vinegar. [tis of the same nature as Cayenne pepper, but not so strong; and is the best substitute for that article, of any not be gathered till ripe, when they are of a bright red color; should be, reduced to a fine powder, and may be used instead of Cayenne, when that article re sannot be obtained. Sr : Ske Fens