--Lotions,-
--Lotions are usually applied to the parts required by means of a piece of sterile linen rag, lint or wool, wetted with them, or by wetting the bandage itself. They are for outward application only.
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--Emollient,-
--Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed.
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--Sedative,-
--Dissolve 1 tea spn of extract of henbane in 24 drachma of water.
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--Opium,-
--Mix 2 tea spn of bruised opium with half a pint of boiling water. ~ Use, when cold, for painful ulcers, bruises, &c.
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--Stimulant,-
--Dissolve 1 tea spn of caustic Pot-ash in 1 pint of water, and then gradually pour it upon 24 grains of camphor and 1 tea spn of sugar, previously bruised together in a mortar. ~ Use for fungus and flabby ulcers.
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--Ordinary,-
--Mix 1 tea spn of salt with 10 oz of water. ~Use for foul ulcers and flabby wounds.
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--Cold Evaporating,-
--Add 2 tea spn of Goulard's extract and the same quantity of sulphuric ether to a pint of cold water. ~ Use as lotion for contusions, sprains, inflamed parts, &c.
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--Hydrochlorate of Ammonia,-
--Dissolve 2 tea spn of sal ammoniac in 6 oz of water, then add 1 oz of distilled vinegar and the same quantity of rectified spirit. ~ Use as a refrigerant.
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--Yellow Lotion,-
--Dissolve 1 grain of corrosive sublimate in 2 oz of lime water, to make strength 1-1,000, taking care to bruise the crystals of the salt in order to assist it's solution. ~ Use as a detergent. ~ Note, that corrosive sublimate is a violent and deadly poison.
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--Black Wash,-
--Add half a tea spn of calomel to 4 oz of lime water, or 8 grains to an oz of lime water; shake well. ~ Use for bad ulcers. This is good for syphilitic ulceration.
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--Acetate of Lead with Opium,-
--Take 20 grains of acetate of lead, and a tea spn of powdered opium, mix, and add an oz of warm water, set aside for an hour, then filter. ~ Use as an astringent or sedative.
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--Creosote,-
--Add a tea spn of creosote to a pint of water, and mix by shaking. ~ Use as an application in cutaneous disease.
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--Galls,-
--Boil 1 tea spn of bruised galls in 12 oz of water until only 10 oz remains, then strain, and add 1 oz of laudanum. ~ Use as an astringent and sedative.
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--Ointments and Cerates.
--These remedies are used as local applications to parts, generally ulcers. They are usually spread upon linen or other materials.
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--Camphorated,-
--Mix half an oz of camphor with 1 oz of lard, having, of course, previously powdered the camphor, by adding a few drops of spirit of wine ~ Use as a stimulant in indolent tumours.
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--Chalk,-
--Mix as much prepared chalk as you can get into some lard, so as to form a thick ointment. ~ Use as an application to burns and scalds.
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--For Itch,-
--Mix 4 tea spn of sublimated sulphur, 2 oz of lard, and a half a tea spn of diluted sulphuric acid together. ~ Use as an ointment to be rubbed into the body.
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--For Scrofulous Ulcerations,-
--Mix 1 tea spn of oxide of zinc and 1 oz of lard together. ~ Use twice a day to the ulcerations.
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--Catechu,-
--Mix 1 oz of powdered catechu, 2 tea spn and a half of powdered alum, 1 oz of powdered white resin, and 2 oz and a half of olive oil, together. ~ Use for flabby and indolent ulcerations.
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--Rose Lipsalve,-
--i. Oil of almonds, 3 oz; alkanet, half an oz. Let them stand together in a warm place, then strain. Melt 1 oz and half of white wax and half an oz of spermaceti with the oil; stir it till it begins to thicken, and add 12 drops of otto of roses.
--ii. White wax, 1 oz; almond oil, 2 oz; alkanet, 1 tea spn; digest in a warm place, stir till sufficiently coloured, strain and stir in 6 drops of otto of roses.
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-- < EWUE 118th Ed. HJLtd Pub. 1933 >
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--My babysitters mostly lived alone having been widowed in their sixties. The village Dr. would arrive from Town where he lived and had his practice, on the local bus. The Dr. would repair to the blacksmith's where any news (gossip) might be heard, then using a bicycle would begin his round visiting mostly the old ladies, while occasionally one of the old veterans would ask him to bring them something simple, but not in our village, like lanolin.bp. in a jar. He, the Dr. would sometimes rumble on about home made medicines, but he took their temperature, listened to their lungs, thumped them on the back, and with a shake of his head moved on to the next. The Dr. would often eat a sandwich with a cider, but be finished and on the local school bus back to town in the middle afternoon. He might have come to the village more often in winter, but rarely came more than once a week in the summer. His idea, along with many of the mums, was if a child had contracted chicken pox or other contagion, send all the other children of responsible nature to help that family's house, and if they also caught the sickness then soonest over, and never catch it again. Pregnant mothers were brought every variety of food that could be found in tillage or from hedgerow. Nobody where I grew up had allergies, and nobody had more than a two day head cold. All the old had survived the Great war and the Spanish flu, and all the young adults (parents) had been veterans of WW2, serving in some capacity. There was no 'unemployment', and they would have humiliated any local into finding himself something to do, to earn money, or just kudos for community work, like cleaning gutters or ditches. Or even taking the children out gleaning hedgerows for jam-fruits or plants for cooking or medicines.
• [Note Warning : these excerts of home remedies are not advisory, and are from 85 years ago. The responsibility of use is the reader's.]
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