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_.. 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 PREPARING 
AND ADMINISTERING THEM TO CURE 


sd DISEASE. 
| TO WHICH IS ADDED 


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A Description of several cases of Disease attended by the 
Author, with the mode of treatment and cure. 


SIXTH EDITION. 


=P OOOda- 
BY SAMUEL THOMSON. 
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COLUMBUS, (0.) 
_ - PRINTED FOR PIKE, PLATT, AND COMPANY, 
BY JENKINS AND GLOVER, 


1832. 4 


DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, vo wir:. 
District Clerk’s Office. 

Be iv REMEMBERED; That on the twenty-third day of No~ 
vember, A. D. 1822, in the forty-seventh year of the Indepen- 
dence of the United States of America, Samuel Thomson, 
of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a 
book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in 
«he words following, to wit: New Guide to Health; or Bota- 
nic 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 preparing and ad- 
ministering them: to cure disease. ‘To which is added a de- 
seription of several cases of disease attended by the author, 
with the mode of treatment and cure. By Samuel Thomson. ~ 

In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United Staressit 
entitled “An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by se~ 
euring the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the Authors 
and Proprietors of such.copies, during the time therein men- 
tioned ;”” and also to an Act, entitled “An Actsupplementa- — 
ry to an Act, entitled an Act forthe encouragement of Leam- 
ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the» 
Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times 
therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the 
arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other — 
prints. JOHN W: DAVIS, © = 

; Clerk of Mass. District ~ 


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‘OTHE PUBLIC. 


_ YuHE preparing the following work for the press 
has been a task of much difficulty and labor; for to 
comprise in a short compass, and toconvey a correct 
understanding of the subject, from such a mass of 
materials as I have been enabled to collect by thirty 


years practice is a business of no small magnitude. - 
_ The plan that has been adopted, I thought the best 
- to give a correct knowledge of my system of prac- 


tice; and am confident that the descriptions and di- 
rections are sufficiently explained to be understood 
by all those who take an interest in this important 
subject. Much more might have been written; but 
the main object has been to confine it to the practice, 
and nothing more is stated of the theory, than what 


was necessary to give a general knowledge of the 


system. Ifany errors should be discovered, it is 


_ hoped that they will be viewed with candour; for in 
. first publishing a work, such things are to be expec- 
ted; but much care has been taken that there should 


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be no.error, which would cause any mistake in the 
practice, or preparing the medicine. 

Many persons are practising by my system, who 
are in the habit of pretending that they have made 


_ great improvements, and in some instances it is well 


known that poisonous drugs k been made use of 
under the name of my medicine, which has counter- 
acted its operation, and thereby tended to destroy 
the confidence of the public in my system of practice; 
this has never been = by me. The public 


AGREEMENT. 


are therefore cautioned against such conduct, and al! 
-those who are well disposed towards my system, are 
desired to lend their aid in exposing all such disho- 
nest practices, in order that justice may be done. ~ 
Those who possess this work, may, by examining it, _ 
be able to detect any improper deviations therefrom; 
and they are assured that any practice which is not 
conformable to the directions given, and does not 
agree with the principles herein laid down, is un- 
authorised by me. 


AGREEMENT. 


Tue subscriber, who is the discoverer and pro- 
prietor of the system of medical practice contained 
in this work, agrees to give, whenever applied to, 
any information, that shall be necessary to give a 
complete understanding of the obtaining, preparing 
and using all such vegetables as are made use of in 
said system, to all those who purchase the right; and 
the purchasers, in consideration of the above infor- 
mation, and also what is contained in. this*book, 
agree in the spirit of mutual interest and honour 


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INTRODUCTION. 

‘THERE are three things which have in a greater 
or less degree, called the attention of men, viz: Re- 
ligion, Government, and Medicine. In ages past, 
these things were thought by millions to belong to 
three classes of men, Priests, Lawyers and Physi- 
cians. The Priests held the things of religion in 
their own hands, and brought the people to their 
terms; kept the scriptures inthe dead languages, so 
that the common people could not read them. Those 
days of darkness ate done away; the scriptures are 
translated into our own language, and each one is 
taught to read for himself. Government was once 
eonsidered as belonging to afew, who thought them- 
selves “‘born only to rule.” The common’ people 
have now become acquainted with the great secret 
of government; and know that ‘“‘all men are born 
free and equal,”’ and that Magistrates are put in au- 
thority, or out, by the voice of the people, who choose 
them for their public servants. 

While these, and many other things are brought 
where ‘‘common people” can understand them; the 


6 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; 


knowledge and use of medicine, is in a great mea- 
sure concealed in a dead language, and a sick man 
is often obliged to risk his life, where he would not 
risk a dollar; and should the apothecary or his ap- 
prentice make a: mistake, the sick man cannot cor- 
rect it, and thus. is exposed to receive an instru- 
ment of death, instead of that which would restore 
him to health had he known good medicine. 

“It may be alleged, (said Dr. Buchan,) that lay- 
ing medicine more open to mankind, would lessen 
their faith in it. This, indeed, would be the case 
with regard to some; but it would have a quite con- 
trary effect upon others. I know many people who 
have the utmost dread and horror of every thing 
prescribed by a physician, who will, nevertheless, 
very readily take a medicine which they know, and 
whose qualities they are in some measure acquainted 
with.”’ a 

‘‘Nothing ever can, or will inspire mankind with 
an absolute confidence in physicians but by their be- 
ing open, frank and undisguised in their behaviour.”’ 

“The most effectual way to destroy quackery in 
any art or science, is to diffuse the knowledge of it 
among mankind. Did physicians write their. pre- 
scriptions in the common language of the country, 
and explain their intentions to the patient as far as 
he could understand them, it would enable them to 
know when the medicine had the desired effect; 
would inspire him with absolute confidence in the - 
physician; and would make him dread and detest 
every man who pretended to crama secret medicine 
or poison down his throat.’’ 

It is true that much of what is at this day called 
medicine, is deadly poison; and were people to know 
what is offered them of this kind, they would abso- 
lutely refuse ever to receive itas a medicine. This 
T have long seen and known to be true; and have la- 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 4 


bored hard for many years to convince them of the 
evils that attend such a mode of procedure with the 
sick; and have turned my attention to those medi- 
eines that grow in our own country which the God 
of nature has prepared for the benefit of mankind. 
Long has a general medicine been sought for, and I 
am confident I have found such as are universally 
applicable in all cases of disease, and which may be 
used with safety and success, in the hands of the 
people. | | 

After thirty years study and repeated successful 
trials of the medicinal vegetables of our own coun- 
try, in all forms of disease incident to our climate; I 
can with well grounded assurance, recommend my 
system of practice and medicines to the public, as sa- 
lutary and efficacious. 

Great discoveries and improvements have been 
made in various arts and sciences since the first set- 
tlement of our country, while its medicines have 
been very much neglected. As these medicines, 
suited to every disease, grow spontaneously upon 
our own soil; as they are better adapted to the con- 
stitution; as the price of imported drugs is very 
high; it follows, whether we consult health which is 
of primary importance, or expense, a decided pre- 
ference should be given to the former, as an object 
of such magnitude as no longer to be neglected.— 
Yet in the introduction of those medicines I have 
been violently opposed, and my theory and practice 
condemned, notwithstanding the demonstrative 
proofs in their favor. But those who thus condemn 
have taken no pains to throw off prejudice, and exa- 
mine the subject with candor and impartiality. Such 
as have, are thoroughly satisfied of their utility and 
superior excellence. 

From those who measure a man’s understanding 
and ability to be beneficial to his fellow men only 


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from the acquisition he has made in literature fronz 
books; from such as are governed by outward ap- 
pearance, and who will not stoop to examine a Sys- 
tem on the ground of its intrinsic merit, I expect not 
encouragement, but opposition. But ‘this will not 
discourage me. I consider the discovery I have 
made, of inestimable value to mankind, and intend- 
ed for the great benefit of those who are willing te 
receive it. 

Being born in a new country, at that time almost 
a howling wilderness, my advantages for an educa- 
tion were very small; but possessing a natural gift 
for examining the things of Nature, my mind was 
left entirely free to-follow that inclination, by enqui- 
ring into the meaning of the great variety of —- 
around me. 

Possessing a body like other men, I was led to en- 
quire into the nature of the component parts of which 
manis made. I found him composed of the four el- 
ements—Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The earth 
and water I found were the solids; the air and fire 
the fluids. ‘The two first I found to be the compo- 
nent parts; the two last kept him in motion. Heat, 
1 found, was life; and Cold, death. Each one who 
examines into it will find that all constitutions are 
alike. I shall now describe the fuel which continues 
the fire or life of man. This is contained in two 
things—food and medicines; which are in harmony 
with: each other; often grow in the same field, to be 
used by the same people. People who are capable 
of raising their food, and preparing the same, may 
as easily learn to collect and prepare all their medi- 
eines and administer the same when it is needed. 
- Our life depends on heat; food is the fuel that Kin- 
dies and continues that heat. The digestive pow- 
ers” belne « correct, causes the food to consume; this 


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continues the warmth of the body, by continually 
supporting the fire. | 

The stomach is the demnane from Shick the whole 
body is supported. The heat is maintained in the 
stomach by consuming the food; and all the body and 
limbs receive their proportion of nourishment and 
heat from that source; as the whole room is warmed 
by the fire which is consumed in the fire place. The 
greater the quantity of wood consumed in the fire 
place, the greater the heat in the room. So in the 
body; the more food, well digested, the more heat 
and support through the whole man. By constant- 
ly receiving food into the stomach, which is some- 
times not suitable for the best nourishment, the sto- 
mach becomes foul, so that the food is not well di- 
gested. This causes the body to lose its heat—then 
the appetite fails; the bones ache, and the man is 
sick in every part of the whole frame. 

This situation ofthe body shows the need of medi- 
cine, and the kind needed; which is such as will 
clear the stomach and bowels, and restore the diges- 
tive powers. “When this is done, the food will raise 
the heat again and nourish the whole man. All the 
art required to do thisis to know what aaicine will 
do it, and how to administer it, as a person knows 
how to clear a stove and the pipe when clogged with 
soot, that the fire may burn free, and the whole reom 
be warmed as before. - 

The body, after being cleared of whatever clogs 
it, will consume double the food, and the food will 
afford double the nourishment aid heat, that it did 
before. We know that our life depends on food, and 
the stomach being ina situation to receive and digest 
it. When the stomach and bowels are clogged, all 
needed is, the most suitable medicine to ren.ove the 
obstructionin the system. All disease is caused by 
clogging the system; and all disease is removed by 


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restoring the digestive powers, so that food may 
keep up that heat on which life depends. 

I have found by experience, that the learned doc- 
tors are wrong in considering fevera disease or en- 
emy; the fever is a friend, and cold the enemy.— 
This I found by their practice in my family, until 
they had five times given them over to die. Exer- 
cising my own juagment, I followed after them, and 
relieved my family every time. After finding a ge- 
neral principle respecting fevers, and reducing that 
to practice, I found it sure in all disease, where there 
was any nature left to build on, and in three years 
constant practice. I never lost one patient. 

I attended on all the fevers peculiar to our country, 
and always used it asa friend, and that returned the 
gratitude to the patient. I soon began to give this 
information to the people, and convinced many that, 
they might as certainly relieve themselves of their 
disease, as of their hunger. The expense to them to 
be always able to relieve themselves and families, 
would be but small; and the medicine they may pro- 
cure and prepare themselves. 

“This greatly disturbed the learned dootans: and 
some of them undertook to destroy me, by reporting 
that T used poison; though they made. no mention of 
my using their instruments of death, Mercury, Opi- 
um, Ratsbane, Nitre, and the Lancet. I considered 
it my duty to withstand them, though I found my 
overthrow was what they *aimed at. A plan was 
once laid to take me in the night, but I escaped. 
Next I was indicted as though I had given poison, 
and a bill brought against me for wilful murder. I 
was bound in irons and thrust into prison, to be kept 
there through the winter, without being allowed bail. 
{ petitioned for and obtained a special court to try 
the cause, and was honorably acquitted after forty 
days imprisonment. I maintained my integrity in 


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the place where my persecution began. In five years, 


while vindicating this new and useful discovery, 1 


lost five thousand dollars, besides all the persecu- 
tion, trouble, loss of. health, and reproach which has 
been i in connexion with the losses. : 

It has been acknowledged, even by those who are 
unfriendly to me and my practice, that my medicine 
may be good in some particular cases, but not in all. 
But this is anerror. For there are but two great 
principles in the constitution of things, whether ap- 
plied tothe mind or body; the principle of life and 
the principle of death. That which contains the 
principle of life, can never be tortured into an ad- 
ministration of death. | If, then, a medicine is good 
in any case, itis because it is agreeable to nature, 
or this principle of life the very opposite of disease. 
If it is agreeable in one case, it must be absolutely 
so in all. By the active operation of nature, the 
whole animal economy is carried on: and the father 
of the healing art, Hippocrates, tells us, what is an 
obvious. ‘¥uth, that Nature is Heat. The principle 
is the same in all, differing only. in degree. When 
disease invades the. frame, it resists in proportion to 
its force, till ov erpowered, into submission, and when 
extinguished, death follow gpd it ceases to ope- 
rate. alike.i inall. If then, heat is life, and its ex- 
tinction death, a diminution of this vital flame in ev- 
ery instance, constitutes*disease, and is an approxi- 
mation to death. Ailthen, that medicine can do in 
the expulsion of f disorder, i is to kindle up the decay- 
ing spark, and restore its energy tillit glows in al! 
its wonted vigor. If a direct administration can be 
made to produce thiseffect, (and it can) it is evident- 
ly immaterial whats the name, or color of the dis- 
‘ease, whether bilious, yellow, scarlet or spotted; 
whether it is simple or complicated, or whether na- 
ture hasone enemy or more. Names are arbitrary 


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things, the knowledge ofa name is but the cummiu 
and annis, but in the knowledge of the origin of a: 
malady, and its antidote, lies the weightier matters 
ofthis science. This knowledge makes the genuine: 
physician; all without itis real quackery. 

It has been a general opinion that extensive study 
and great erudition, are necessary to form the emi- 
nent physician. But all this may be as Paul saith, 
but science, falsely. so called. A man may have as 
scientific knowledge of the human frame, he may) 
know the names in every language of every medi- 
cine, mineral and. vegetable, as well as every dis-. 
ease, and yet be a miserable physician. ~ But there 
have. been men without this to boast of, from the ear- 
liest ages of the world, who have ‘‘arisen, blest with: 
the sublimer powers of genius, who have, as it were, 
with one look pierced creation, and with one com-- 
prehensive view, grasped the whole circle of science: 
and. left learning itself, toiling after them in vain.’’’ 
A man never can be great without intellect, and he 
never can more than fill the measure of his capacity. 
There is a power beyond the reach of art, and there 
are gifts that study and learning can never rival. 

. The practice ofthe regular: physicians, that is: 
those who get a diploma, at the present time, is not’ 
to use those means which would be most likely to: 
cure disease, but to try experiments upon what they. 
have read in books, and to'see how much a patient! 
can bear without producing death. -After pursuing: 
. this plan during their lives, they know just about as: 
much as they did when they began to practice, of 
what is really useful to mankind. If a patient dies: 
under their hands, why it is the will of God, and 
they are sure to get extravagantly paid for their: 
trouble and nothing more is said about it; but if one. 
out of hundreds of my patients die, and where the 
doctors have given them over as incurable, they at 


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once cry out that it is quackery, that I gave them 
poison, &c. for the purpose of running me and my 
medicine down, and to prevent its being used by the 
people. The fact is well known to thousands who 
have used my medicine, and to which they are ready 
to attest, that it is perfectly harmless, and I defy the | 
faculty to produce one instance wherein it has had | 
any bad effects. eck . 

Itis true that the study of anatomy, or structure 
of the human body, and of the whole animal econo- 
my is pleasing and useful; nor is there any objection 
to this, however minute and critical, if it is not to 
the neglect of first great principles, and the weight- 
ier matters of knowledge. But it isno more neces- 
sary to mankind at large, to qualify them to admin- 
ister relief from pain and sickness, than to a cook in 
preparing food to satisfy hunger and nourishing the 
body. There is one general cause of hunger and 
one general supply of food; one general cause of dis- 
ease, and one general remedy. One can be satis- 
fied, and the other removed, by an infinite variety of 
articles, or a few best adapted to those different pur- 
poses—That mecicine, therefore, that will remove 
obstructions, promote perspiration, and restore di- 
gestion, is suited to every patient, whatever form 
the disease assumes, and is universally applicable. 
And acute disorders, such as fevers, cholics, and 
dysentery, may be relieved thereby, in twenty-four 
or forty-eight hours, at most. 


REMARKS ON FEVERS. 


Mucu has been said and written upon fevers by 
the professedly learned Doctors of Medicine, without 
throwing the most profitable light on the subject, or 
greatly benefiting mankind. ‘They have been abun- 
dantly fruitful in inventing names for disease, and 


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with. great care and accuracy distinguished the dif- 
ferent symptoms; but they appear quite barren as to: 
the knowledge of their origin and remedy. “To the: 
first but little importance, comparatively speaking, 
can be attached; the latter is of the highest impor- 


tance to all classes of people. 


According to the writings of learned Physicians, 
there are a great variety of fevers, some more and 
some lessdangerous. Butto begin witha definition 
ofthe Name. What is fever! Heat, undoubtedly, 
though a disturbed operation of it. But is there in 


the human frame more than one kind of heat? Yes, 


says the physician, (strange as it may appear,) there 
is the pleuretic heat, the slow nervous heat, the pu- 


trid heat, the hectic. heat, the yellow heat, the spot- 


ted for cold heat, the typhus or ignorant heat, and 
many other heats; and sometimes, (calamitous to: 
tell) one poor patient has the most, or the whole of 
these fevers, and dies at last for want of heat! 

Is fever or heat a disease! Hippocrates, the ac- 
knowledged father of physicians, maintained that! 
nature is heat; and he is correct. Is nature a dis- 
ease? Surely it is not. What is commonly called! 
fever, is the effect, and not the cause of disease. It: 
isthe struggle of nature to throw off disease. ‘The 
cold causes an obstruction, and fever arises in conse-- 
quence of that obstruction to throw it off. This is: 
universally the case. Remove the cause, the effect! 
will cease. No person ever yet died ofa fever? for; 
as death approaches, the patient grows cold, until ini 
death, the last spark of heat isextinguished. This,, 
the learned doctors cannot deny; and as this is true, 
they ought, in justice, to acknowledge that their: 
whole train of depletive remedies, such as bleeding, 
blistering, physicing, starving, with all their refri-. 
geratives; their opium, mercury, arsenic, antimony, 
nitre, dcc. are so many deadly engines, combined | 


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with the disease, against the constitution and life of 
the patient. If cold, which is the commonly re- 
ceived opinion, (and which is true) is the cause of 
fever, to repeatedly bleed the patient, and adminis- 
ter mercury, opium, nitre, and other refrigerents 
to restore him to health, is as thougha man ‘should. 
to increase a fire in his room, throw a part of it out 
of the house, and to increase the remainder, put on 
water, snow and ice! 

As it is a fact, that cannot be denied, that fever 
takes its rise from one great cause or origin, it fol- 
lows of course, that one method of removing that 
cause, will answer in all cases; and the ae prin- 
ciple is te assist nature, which is heat. So4 

At the commencement of a fever, by deieet and 
proper application of suitable medicine, it can be 
easily and speedily removed, and the patient need 
not be confined long. Twenty-four or forty-eight 
.hours, to the extent, are sufficient, and often short 
of that time, the fever may be removed, or that 
which is the cause of it. _But where the patient is 
left unassisted, to struggle with the disease, until 
his strength is exhausted, and more especially, 
when the most unnatural and injurious administra- 
tions are made, if a recovery is possible, it must of 
necessity take a longer time.. These declarations 
are true and have been often proved, and can be 
again, to the satisfaction of every candid person, at 
the hazard of any forfeiture the faculty may chal- 
lenge. 

Notwithstanding all these things, how true are 
the words of the intelligent Dr. Hervey, who says, 
‘‘By what unaccountable perversity in our frame 
does it appear that we set ourselves so much against 
gny thing that is new? Can any one behold, with- 
gut scorn, such drones of physicians, and after the 
space of sp many hundred years experience and 


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practice of their predecessors, not one single medi-, 
eine has been detected, that has the least force di- 
rectly to prevent, to oppose, and expel a continued 
fever? Should any, by a more sedulous observation, 
pretend to make the least step towards the discov- 
ery of such remedies, their hatred and envy would 
swell against him, as a legion of devils against vir- 
tue; the whole society will dart their malice at him, 
and torture him with all the calumnies imaginable, 
without sticking at any thing that should destroy 
him root and branch. For he who professes to be a 
reformer of the art of physic, must resolve to run 
the hazard of the martyrdom of his reputation, life 
and estate.”? > mio 

‘The treatment which the writer has received 
from some of the learned physicians since his disco- 
very of the remedy for the fever, and various other 
forms of disease, is a proof of the truth of this last 
saying of Dr. Hervey.. They have imprisoned him, 
and charged him with every thing eruel and unjust; 
though upon a fair trial their violent dealings have 
come down upon their heads; while he has not only 
been proved innocent before the court, but useful; 
having relieved many which the other physicians had 
given over to die. i i 

I will now take notice of the yellow fever. The 
cause of this fatal disease, is similar to the spotted 
fever. The cause of death in the latter, is in conse- 
quence of its producing a balance by cold, outward 
and inward; and in the former there is a balance of 
heat outward and inward; both produce the same 
thing, that is a total cessation of motion, which is 
death. Thecolour of the skin has given name to both 
these forms of disease. The yellow is caused by the 
obstruction of the gall; instead of being discharged 
through its preper vessels, it is forced and diffused 
through the pores of the skin. The same effects that 


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axe produced by these two fevers may be observed — 
in the motion of the sea; when the tide is done run- 
ning up, there is what is called slack water, or a bal- _ 
ance of power, and the same thing takes place when 
it is done running down; whenthe fountain is raised, 
the water runs from it; but when it is lowered, the 
water runs towards it. ‘The same cause produces 
the same effects in the spotted and yellow fevers; 
for when a balance of power between the outward 
and inward heat takes place, death follows. 
Having described the two kinds of fever which 
are the most alarming, they being most fatal, J’shall 
over those of a less alarming nature, and’ mere- 
ly observe, that there is no other difference in all 
cases of fever, than what is caused by the different 
degrees of cold, or loss of inward heat, which are 
two adverse parties in one body, contending for pow- 
er. If the heat gains the victory, the cold will be 
@isinherited, and health willbe restored: but on the 
ether hand, if cold gains the ascendancy, heat will 
he dispossessed of its empire, and death will follow 
of course. -Assoon as life ceases, the body becomes 
cold, which is conclusive evidence that its gaining 
the victory is the cause of death. When the power 
of cold is nearly equal to that of heat, the fever, or 
strife between the two parties, may continue for a 
longer or shorter time, according to circumstances: 
this is what is called a long fever, orfever and ague. 
The battle between cold and heat will take place 
periodically, some times every day, at other times, 
every other day, and they will leave off about equal, 
heat keeping a little the upper hand. In attempting 
to cure a case of this kind, we must consider whether 
the fever is a friend or anenemy; if it is a friend, 
whieh I hold to be the fact, when the fever fit is on, 
inerease the power of or in order to drive off the 


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coid, and life will bear the rule; but, on the contrary , 
should cold be considered a friend, when the cold fit. 
is on, by increasing its power, you driveoff the heat, 
and death must ensue. Thus you may promote life 
or death, by tempering cold and heat. pee acs | 
‘Much has been said by the doctors concerning the! 
turn of a fever, and how long-a time it will: run.. 
When it is said that a fever will turn at such atime,. 
Tpresumeit must mean that it has been gone; this: 
is true, forit is then gone on the outside, and is try-- 
ing tp turn again and go inside, where it belongs.. 
ag,of following the dictates of nature and aid-- 
ing it Wsubdue the cold, the doctor uses all his: 
skill to kall the fever. How, I would ask, in the: 
name of ‘ommon sense, can any thing turn whem 
kuled? Support the fever and it will return inside, 
the cold, whiclris the cause of disease, will be driven: 
out, and health will be restored. .In all cases called! 
fever, the cause is the same in a greater or less de-- 
gree, and may be relieved by one general remedy... 
The cold causes canker, and before the canker is: 
seated, the strife will take place between cold and| 
heat; and while the hot flashes and cold chills ree; 
main, it is evidence that the canker is not settled,, 
and the hot medicine aloue, occasionally assisted by; 
steam, will throw it off; but as the contest ceases, | 
the heat is steady on the outside; then canker as-- 
sumes the power inside; this is called a settled fever, . 
The truth is, the canker is fixed on the inside and ( 
will ripen and come off in a short time, if the fever: 
is kept up so as to overpower.the cold. This idea. 
is new and never was known till my discovery. By? 
raising the fever with Nos. 1 and 2, and taking off / 
the canker with No. 3, and the same given by injec-. 
tions, we may turn a fever when we please; but if; 
this is not understood, the canker will ripen andcome : 
off itself, when the fever will turn and go inside anf | 


OR, BOFANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 9 


the cold will be driven out; therefore they will do 
much better without a doctor than with. The high- 
er the fever runs, the sooner the cold will be subdu- 
ed; and if you contend against the heat, the longer 
will be the run of the fever, and when killed, death 
follows. Wee: : jase 
‘When a patient is bled, it lessens the heat and 
gives double power to the cold; like taking out of ong 
side of the scale, and putting it in the other, which 
doubles the weight, and turns the scale in favor of 
the disease. By giving opium it deadens the feelings: . 
the small doses of nitre end ealomel rend to destroy. 
what heat remains, and piants new crops of canker, 
which willstand in different stages in the body, the 
same as corn planted in the field every week, will 
keep some in all stages; so is the different degrees 
incanker. ‘This isthe reason why there are so many — 
different fevers as are named; when one fever turns, 
another sets in, and so continues, one after another, 
until the harvest is all ripe, if the season is long 
enough; if not, the cold and frost takes them off— 
then it is said they died of a fever. It might, with 
as much propriety, be said that the corn killed with 
frost, died with the heat. The questions, whether 
the heat or cold killed the patient, is easily decided, 
for that power which bears rule in the body after 
death, is what killed the patient, which is cold—es 
much as that which bears rule when he is alive, is 
heat. When a person is taken sick, it is common tp 
say, I have got acold, and am afraid I am going te 
have a fever; but no fears are expressed of thecold 
he has taken; neither isit mentioned when the cold, 
left him. The fashionable practice is to fight the. 
remains of heat till the patient dies, by giving cold 
the victory; in which case, is it not a fact that the 
doctor assists the cold to kill the patient? Would it 
not have been more a ,» on likely te have cu 


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rea them, when the fever arose, to throw off the cpl, 


to have helped the fever and give nature the victory 
gver its enemy, when the health would be restored 
the same as before they took the cold. 


We frequently see in the newspapers aecounts of 
people dying in consequence of drinking cold water 
when very warm. Some fall dead instantly and others 
jinger for several hours—the doctors have not been 
able to afford any relief when ealled. ‘The princi- 
pal symptoms are chills, and shivering with cold, 
which is viewed with astonishment by those whe 
witness it. Proper caution should always be obser- 
ved by persons when very warm and thirsty, who go 
toa pump to drink, by swallowing something hot be- 

ore drinking the water, and swallowing a little at a 
time, which will prevent any fatal effects. 

This strange circumstance of being cold on a hot 
day, and which has never been accounted for in a 
satisfactory manner to the public, I shall endeavor 
to explain in as comprehensive and plain language 
as Tam capable. The component parts of animal 
bodies are earth and water, and life and motion are 
caused by fire and air. ‘The inward heat is the foun- 
tain of life, and as much as that has the power above 
the outward heat, so much we have life and strength, 
and when we lose this power of heat, our strength 
and faculties decay in proportion; and it is immate- 
rial whether we lose this power by losing the inward 
heat er raising the outward heat above it, as the 
effect is the same. If you raise the stream level 
with the fountain, it stops the current and all motion 
will cease, and the same effects will follow by low- 
ering the fountain toa level with the stream. When 
the outward heat becomes equal with the inward, 
either by the one’being raised or the other being 
tees cold assumes the power and death takes 
place, : 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 21 


“The cause of the fatal effeets by drinking ¢old 
Water, is because the fountain of lite is lost by thte 
stream being raised above the fountain, or the in- 
ward heat lowered by throwing into the stomach so 
large a quantity of cold water as to give the out- 
ward heat the power of balancing the inward, and 
in proportion as theone approaches to an equalit: 
with the other, so théstrength is diminished, an 
when equal, they. die. * 

I shall now make some finther remarks on this and 
other subjects, with a hope thet it may be beneficial 
to mankind. The reasot why these extraordinary 
eases appear so wonderfi to the people, is because 
they are unacquainted wit\the cause: Why should 
sve wonder ata person belly cold on a hot day when 
ave are not, any more than W. should wonder at an- 
ether being hungry, when weave just been eating; 
er that others can be in pain, Yhen we are enjoying 
good healtht The one isas plaiand simple as the 
other, when understood. The wi¢ of inward heat 
is the cause of their being cold, jus ag much as the 
“want of food is the cause of hunget\oy the want of 
health is the cause of pain. One pe?y may have 
lost the natural power of heat, by 40 “tect which 
others in similar situations may not have. perien- 
ced, and will suffer the consequences of ¢ id rity 
portion to the loss of inward heat; this is MAT Cy 64 
in the different degrees of sickness. If the inwara 
heat loses its balance of power suddenly, death is 
ammediate; which is the case in spotted fever, and 
in drowned persons. When the inward and outward 
coldis balanced, life ceases, and the blood being stop- 
ped in its motion, settles in spots, which appearance 
has given name to what is called spotted fever. The 
game appearances take place on drowned persons, 
dnd from the same causes. seg aay 

The practice of bleeding for the purpese af curing 


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disease, I consider Most unnatural and injurious. 
Nature. never furnishes the body with more blood. 
than is necessary for the maintenance of health; te. 
take away part of the blood, therefore, is taking | 
away just so much of their life, and is as contrary 
tonature, asit would beto cut awoy part of their flesh. 
Many experiments have been tied by the use of the 
lancet in fevers; but I beliese it will be allowed by 
all, that most of them have proved fatal; and several 
eminent physicians haye died in consequence of try- 
ing the experiment orthemselves. If the system is 
diseased, the blood becomes as much diseased as any 
other part; remove the catse of the disorder and the 
blood will recover and be:ome healthy assoon ag any 
other part; but how takhg part of it away can help 
to cure what remains,~an never be reconciled. with 
common sense. i ePiie ' be 
There is no pract@¢ used by the physicians that ¥ 
eonsider more inectSistent. with common sense, and 
at-the same time™ore inhuman than blistering, to 
remove disease Particularly insane persons, or what 
the doctors ca! dropsy on the brain; in which cases 
they shave #¢ head and draw a blister on it. Very 
few patie~®, if any, ever survive this application. 
What vzuld be thought if a scald shouldbe caused 
by p-t!ig water, toremove disease? Yet there is no 
geerence between this and a blister made by. flies, 
# have witnessed many instances where great dis- 
tresy.and very bad effects have been caused by the 
use Of blisters; and believe I can truly say that I 
péver knew any benefit derived from their use. It 


| an eminent physician of London. — ee 
_“Thaye long observed that blisters are. tao fre- 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. | 25 


quently, and too often improperly used, as they are 
now so much infashion. Itis very probable that we 
have no one remedy in all the Materia Medica, that 
is so frequently, and so often improperly applied, not 
‘enly in too many cases, where they cannot possibly 
give any relief, but too often where they must una- 
voidably increase the very evil, which they are in- 
#ended to remove or relieve. How often. do we see 
them applied, and sometimes several of them, by 
pretended dabblers in physic, not only where there 
are no indications for applying them, but where the 
true indications are against their application; ‘as, in 
the beginning of most fevers, and especially those 
of the inflamatory, and of the putrid kind, where, 
in the first, the stimulus of the acrid salts of the 
eantharides, which pass into the blood, must unavoid- 
ably increase both the stimulus, and the momentum 
ef the blood, which were too great before, and so 
- vender the fever inflammatory, and all its symptoms 
worse. . one 
é«And it ig well known that the cantharides con- 
taina great quantity of alkaline seini-volatile salts, 
which pass into the blood, though they are applied 
externally; and attenuate, dissolve, and hasten and 
inerease its putrefaction, which is also confirmed by 
the putrid alkaline acrimony which they produce in 
the urine, with the heat and strangury, which: it 
gives to the urinary passage.” 


ON STEAMING. | pe He 
Steaming is a very important branch of my sys- 
cern of practice, which would in many cases withont 
it, be insufficient to effect a cure. It is of great 
importamce in many cases considered by the medical 
faenlty as desperate; and’ they would be so under 


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my mode ef treatment, if it were not for this man-- 
agr of applying heat to the body, for the purpose of! 
teanimating the system and aiding nature in restor-- 
ing health. I had but little knowledge of medicine: 
when, through necessity, I discovered the use of: 
steaming, to add heat or life to the decaying spark: : 
and with it I was enabled -by administering such 
vegetable preparations as I then hada knowledge of, . 
to effect a cure in cases where the reguler practi- 
tioners had given them over. 

In all cases where the heat of the body is so far: 
exhausted as not to be rekindled by using the medi- 
cine and being shielded from the surrounding air by 
a blanket, or being in bed, and chills or stupor attend 
the patient, then apphed heat by steaming becomes 
indispensably necessary; and heat caused by steam 
in the manner that I use if, 1S more natural in pro- 
ducing perspiration, than any dry heat that can be 
applied to the body in any other manner, which wil} 
only serve to dry the air and prevent perspiration in 
many cases of cisease, where a steam hy water or 
vinegar would promote it and add a natural warmth 
to the body, and thereby increase the life and motion 
which has lain silent in consequence of the cold. 

Dr. Jennings has contrived a plan to apply heat 
to the body by dry vapor, caused by burning spirit, 
which he calls a vapor bath, the idea of which was, I 
have no doubt, taken from hearing of my steaming to 
raise the heat of the body. It may answer in same 
cases and stages of disease; but in a settled fever 
‘and other cases where there is a dry inflammation on 
the surface of the body, it will not answer any good 
purpose, and I think would be dangerous, without 
the use of my medicine to first reise a free perspire- 
tion; for when the surface of the body is dry, the 
patient cannot bear it, as it will crowd to.the head 
‘nd cause distress, the same as is produced by burn. 


GR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSIOIAN. Rd 


ing charcoal, or from hot stoves ina tight room, and 
will bring on a difficulty in breathing, which is not 
the case insteaming inmy way. This machine can 
only be used in bed, where the vapor cannot be ap- 
plied to the body equally at the same time, therefore 
is no better than e hot dry stone, put on each side 
and to the feet of the patient, for he ean turn himselt 
and get heat from them as well as to have all the 
trouble of burning spirit and turning to the vapor of it, 
to get warm by thisdry heat. When the patient stands 
over a steam raised by putting a hot stone in water, 
which gives a more equal heat all over the body than 
can be done in any other manner, it can be raised high- 
‘ er and may be tempered at pleasure by wetting the 
face and stomach with cold water as oceasion requires. 

The method adopted by me, and which has always 
answered the desired object, is as follows:—Take 
several stones of different sizes and put them in the 
fire till red hot, then take the smallest first, and put 
one of them into e pan or kettle of hot water, with 
the stone about half immersed—the patient must be 
undressed and a blanket put around him eso as to 
shield his whole body from the air, and then place 
him over the steam. Change the stones as ofien as 
they grow cool, seas to keep up a lively steam, 
and keep him over it; if he is faint, throw a little 
eold water on the face and stomach, which will let 
‘down the outward heat and restore the strength— 
after he has been over the steam long enough,— 
which will generally be about fifteen or twenty min- 
utes, he must be washed all over with cold water 
or spirit, and be put in bed, or may be dressed, as the 
circumstances of the case shall permit. Before he 
is placed over thesteam, give a dose of Nos. 2 and 
3, oY composition, to raise the inward heat. When 
the patient is too weak to stand over the steam, it 
may he done in bed, by heating three stones and put 


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them in water till done hissing, then wrap them in a 
number of thicknesses of cloths, wet with water, 
and put one on each side and one at the feet, occa- 
sionally wetting the face and stomach with cold we- 
ter, when faint. 

Mony other plans may be: catia im steaming, 
whieh would makeless trouble and be more agreeable 
to the patient, especially where they are unable to 
stand over the steam. An open worked chair may 
be made, in which they might sit and be steamed 
very conveniently; or a settee might be made in the 
same manner, in which they might be laid and cover- 
ed with blanketsso as to shield them from the sur- 
rounding air. Such contrivanees as these would be - 
very convenient in eases where the patient would 
have to be carried through a course of medicine and 
steamed a number of times, as is frequently necessa- 
ry, particularly in complaints that have been of long 
standing. 

As I have frequently mentioned @ regular course 
of medicine, I will here state what is meant by it 
and the most proper way in which it is performed. 
Firstly, give Nos. 2 and 3, or composition, adding a 
tea spoonful of No. 6; then steam, and when in bed 
repeat it, adding No. 1, which will cleanse the stom- 
ach and assist in keeping up a perspiration; when 
this has done operating, give an injection made with 
the same articles. Where there aré symptoms of 
nervous affection, or spasms, put half a tea spoonful 
of the nerve powder into each dose given, and: inte 
the injection. In violent cases, where immediate 
rehef is needed, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 6, may be given 
together. Injections may be administered at all 
times and in all eases of disease to advantage; it 
can never do harm, and in many cases, they are in- 

dispensably necessary, especially where there is 
tanker and inftammetion in the bowels, and there is 


OR, BOPANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. OF 


_ danger of mortification, in which case, add a tea: 
spoonful of No.6. In cases of this kind, the injet- 
tion should be given first, or at the same time of 
giving the composition, or No. 3. a 
The use of steaming is good in preventing sick- 
nessas well as curing it. Whena person has been 
exposed to the cold, and is threatened with disease, 
it may be prevented, and long sickness and expense 
saved by a very little trouble, by standing over a 
steam and following the directions before given, till 
the cold is thoroughly thrown off and a lively pers- 
piration takes place; then go to bed, taking the stone 
from the kettle, and wrap it in wet cloths and put it 
tothe feet. Thismay be done without the medicine, 
when it cannot be had; but is much ‘better to take 
something to raise the inward heat at the same time. 
A tea made of may-weed, or summer-savory, or gin- 
ger and hot water sweetened, may be given, or any 
thing that is warming. This advice is for the poor 
and those who have not a knowledge of the medicine; 
and will many times save them much-trouble and long 
siekness. = : 
Steaming is of the utmost importance in cases of 
suspended animation, such as drowned persons; in 
which case, place the body over a moderate steam, 
shielded by a blanket from the weight of the exter- 
nal-air, and rarifying the air immediately around 
them with the steam. Pour into the mouth some of 
the tineture of Nos. 1, 2, and 6; and if there isany in- 
ternal heat remaining, there will be muscular motion 
about the eyes, and inthe extremities. If this symp- 
tom appears, repeat the dose several.times, and re- 
new the hot stones, raising the heat by degrees; if 
the outward heat is raised too suddenly, so as to bal- 
ance the inward, you will fail of the desired object, 
even after life appears. ‘This is the only danger af 
any difficulty taking place—always:bear in mind th 


28 NEW GUIDE TD HEALTH ; 


Keep the fountain above the stream, or the inward — 
heat above the outward, and all will be safe. After 
life is restored, put them in bed and keep the perspira- 
tion free for twelve hours, by hot stones wrapped in 
cloths wet with water, and occasionally giving the 
tincture as before mentioned, when the coldness and 
abstractions are thrown off, and the patient will be 
in the enjoyment of his natural strength. Beware 
af bleeding, or blowing in the mouth with e bellows, 
as either will generally prove fatal. 

In many cases of spotted fever, steaming is as 
necessary es in drowned persons; suchas when 
they fall apparently dead; then the same treatment 
is necessary, to lighten the surrounding air till you 
ean raise the’inward heat so as to get the determin- 
ing power to the surface. Begin witha small stone, 
and as life gains, increase the steam as the patient 
can bear; if the distress is great, give more hot 
medicine inside, and as soon as an equilibrium takes 
place, the pain will cease. In all cases of this kind 
the difficulty cannot be removed without applying 
heat to the body, and it is more natural by steamthan 
by any other means that can fbe made use of. “In 
eases of long standing, where the patient has been 
run down with mercury and left in a cold and ob- 
structed state, liable to rheumatism and other simi- 
tar complaints; they cannot be cured with medicine 
without applied heat by steam, as nothing will re- 
move mercury but heat. : 

When a patient is carried through a course of my 
medicine and steamed, who has been long under 
mercurial treatment; and while under the operation 
of the steam, when the heat is at the highest, the 
face will swell in consequence of the poisonous va- 
por being condensed by the air, the face being open 
toit. ‘To relieve this, put him in bed, and takea 
ot stane wrapped in several thicknesses of clofl: 


OR, BOFANIC PAMILY PHYSICIAN. 29 


wet with water, pouring on a little vinegar, and nia- 
king a lively steam; put it in the bed and cover the 
bead with the clothes and let him breathe the steam 
as hot as can be borne, until the sweat eovers the 
swelled part. This will in about fifteen or twenty 
minutes throw out the poison and the swelling will 
abate. This method also is of great service in agues 
and teeth ache caused by cold; and many other cases 
of obstruction from the same cause, especially young 
children stuffed on the lungs. 

“To steam small children, the best way is to let 
them sit in the lap of a person, covering both with 
a blanket and set over the steam, pouring a little 
vinegar on the stone: or it may be done in bed with 
a hot stone, wrapped in eloths wet with water, put- 
ting on a little vinegar; and eovering them with the 
bed clothes laid loosely over them; but in this way 
vou cannot exercise so good judgment in tempering 
the steam, as when you are steamed with them. If 
they appear languid and faint, the outward heat 
is high enough; put a little cold water on the face 
or breast, which will restore the strength, then rub 
them ina cloth wet with vinegar, spirit, or cold wa- 
ter, put on clean clothes, and put them in bed, or let 
them set up, as their strength will permit. Thisis 
safe in all cases of cold and obstructed perspiration. 
ft ought always to be borne strongly in mind to give 
a child drink often, when under the operation of 
medicine, or while steaming; if this is not done they 
will suffer much, asthey cannot ask for it. 

In all cases of falls or bruizes, steaming is almost 
infallible; and is much better than pleeding, as is the 
common practice, which only tenas 2 destroy lifg, 
imstead of promoting it. If the person is not able 
io stand over the steam, it must be done in bed, as 
Nas has been described. Give the nottest medicine 
imside, that you have, and keep the perspiration free 


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fill the pain and soreness abates, and the strengiii 
will be soon restored. If the advantages of this 
mode of treatment were generally known, bleeding 
in such cases, or any other to remove disease, 
‘would never be resorted to by the wise and prudent. 
The use of steaming is to apply heat to the body 
where it 1s deficient, and clear off obstructions 
caused by cold, which the operation of the medicine 
‘will not raise heat enough to do; for as the natural 
heat of the body becomes thereby lower than the 
natural state of health, it must by art be raised as 
ynuch above as lt has been below; and this must be 
repeated until the digestive powers are restored 
sufficient to bold the heat by digesting the food, 
then the health of the patient will be restored by 
eating and drinking such things as the appetite shall 
require. In this way the medicine removes disease, 
and food, by being properly digested, supports na- 
ture and continues that heat on which life depends, 
Some who practice according to my system, boast 
of carrying their patients through in a shorter time, 
without the trouble of steaming; this is easily ae- 
counted for; steaming is the most laborious part of 
tbe practice for those who attend upon the sick, and 
the most useful to the patient; as one operation of 
steaming will be more effectual in remoying disease, 
than four courses without it; and to omit it is throw- 
ing the labor upon the patient, with the expense of 
three or four operations more of the medicine than 
would be needed, did the person who attends do his 
@uty faithfully. 


Fhe practice of giving poison as medicine, which 
#S so common among the medical faculty, at the 
present day, ts of flre utntost importance to the pub 


ON GIVING POISON AS MEDICINE. 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. BY 
lic; and it is a sabject that I wish to bring home to 
the serious consideration of the whole body of the 
people of this country, and enforce in the strongest 
manner on their minds, the pernicious consequences 
that have happened, and are daily taking place by 
reason of giving mercury, arsenie, nitre, opium and 
other deadly poisons to cure disease. It is admit- 
ted by those who make use of these things, that the 
introducing them into the system is very dangerous 
and that they often prove fatal. Doring thirty years’ 
practice, I have had opportunity to gain much expe- 
rience on this subject, and am ready to declare that 
I am perfectly and decidedly convineed, beyond all 
doubt, that there can be no possible good derived 
from using, in any manner or forin whatever, those 
poisons; but on the other hand, there is a great 
deal of hurt done. More than nine-tenths of the 
chronic eases that have come under my care, have 
been such as had been run down with some one, Gr 
the whole of the above named medical poisons; and 
the greatest difficulty I have had to encounter ip 
removing the complaints which my patients labored 
under, has been to clear the system of mercury, 
nitre, or opium, and bring them back to the same 
state they were in before taking them. It isa very 
€asy thing to get them into the system, bat very 
hard to get them ont again. 

Those who make use of these things as medicine, 
séem to cloak the administering them under the 
Specious pretence of great skill and art in prepar- 
ing and using them; but this kind of covering will 
not blind the people, if they would examine it and 
think for themselves, instead of believing that every 
thing said or done bya learned map must be right; 
for poison giver to the sick by a person of the 
greatest skill, will bave exactly the same effect as it 
fool, The fact is, the operatign 


would if given by a 
Gf it is diametrically opposed to nature, and exery 


32) | REW GUIDE TO HEALTH? 


particle of it that fs taken into’ the. system, will 
strengthen the power of the enemy to health. 
If there should be doubts in the minds of any one 
of the truth of what I have said concerning the ar- 
ticles I have named, being poisonous and destruc- 
iive tothe constitution and health of man, I will 
yefer them to the works published by those whe 
recommend their ase; where they. will find evidence 
enough to satisfy the most credulous, of the dan- 
gerous consequences and fatal effects, of giving 
them as medicine. T’o remove all doubts of their 
being poison I will make a few extracts from stand- 
aré medical works, as the best testimony that can 
be given in the case.. Bywater 
« Muriate of Mercury, is one of the most violent 
poisons with which we are acquainted. | Externally 
it acts-as an escharotie or a eaustie; and in solution 
it is used for destroying fungus flesh, and for remo- 
ving hepatic eruptions; but even externally, if must 
be used with very great caution.” Yet, reader, this 
active poison is used as medicine, and by being pre- 
pared in a different form, and a new name given it, 
(Calomel) its good qualities are said to be invalua- 
ble, and is a certain cure for almost every disease. 
‘«Qxyde of Arsenic, is one of the most sudden 
and violent poisons we are acquainted with. In 
mines, it causes the destruction of numbers of those 
who explore them: and it is frequently the instru- 
ment by whieh victims are sacrificed, either by the 
hand of wickedness orimprudence. The fumes of. 
Arsenic are so deleterious to the lungs, that the 
artist ought to be on his guard to prevent their be- 
ing inhaled by. the mouth; for if they be mixed and 
awallowed with the saliva, effects will take place, 
similar to those whieh follow its introduction into 
iae stomach in a saline state; namely, a sensatien 
of a piercing, gnawing, and burning kind, accompa- 
Ae a ae 


eG ‘ Mi aon 
we , 
mye 


i ‘ s = : 5 
’ ase Nase oR 


£ sas OR, BOTANIC FasLy PHYSICIAN, bod 


nied with an acute Se in ‘the stomach and intes. - 
tines, which last are violently. contorted; convulsive. 
vomiting; “insatiable thirst, from the par rched - and | 
: iit: and throat; h iccough, pale. 
tad: oppression of the 


“matter gjected. by 


Direiss, cuctistutent: Ui 


the mouth, as well asthe stools, -exhibit a black, 


foetid,. ang. pelted appea rance;. “at length with the — 
ication of the bowels, the pain subsides, and 
erminates. the suffering sof the patient.”—_ 


a 


“WY hen the quantity. is SO, very small as not to prove . 


fatal, c trer Sy paralysis, 2 and lingering hectics : Buy < 
ceed a Si 

ct es this: terrible TecHotibe. oh the 
fatal | offects ¢ of this article, 


ly administered, ‘the first ‘medicines. i in: the- class of 
tonics.’ 44g: OF all the. diseases, (says Di. Duncan, ) 
in- which white oxyde of arsenic has. been used in- 
ternally, “there is ndnerin’ which it has been:s > fre- 
quently and SO suce’ -ssfilly employed, as in ee cure 
of intermitt’ mt fevers. We have now the. most 
satisfactory informatian concerning this article, in 
the Medical Reports, of the effects of arsenic in ‘the 
cure of | agues, remitting fevers, and periodical head- 
aches, by Dr. “Fowler, of Stafford.” “Such are 
the powers of this medicine, that two grains of it 
are often sufficient to cure an intermittent that has 
continued for weeks!” ‘AS an external remedy, 
arsenic has long been known as the basis of the 
celebrated cuxcer powders;—arsenic has ever been 
applied in substance, sprinkled upon the ulcer; but. 
this mode of using it is exceediugly painful, and 
extremely dangerous. — There have been fatal effects 
produced from its as ans No other escha- 


rotic possesses ap 


a 


2, the > author says: ee oe 
«Thou | thre, most. violen Fof mineral poisons, r 
arsenic, ‘aecording-t0 Maurray, equals, when “proper~ _ 


rs in cancerous affections; .. 


” 


a) 


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sit 
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be used: as. 


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it not. Pe pecae amend ache ap lead causes: 
the sore to contract in size, and cases have been re-. 
lated of its having effected a cure.”  “ But,” says: 
Dr. Willich, we are, onthe combined. testimony; 
of many medical practition conspicuous” for 
their professi al-and integrity, irresistibly in 
duced to declare our: opinion, at least, against the 
internal use of this active and dangerous medicine.” 

-T shall leave it to the reader to reconcile, if he: 


ean, the inconsistenc ies and. absurdities of the above: 


statements, of the effects of ratsbane; and ask him: 
self the question, whether it can be possible, for ary 
article, the use of which i is attended with such cons 
‘sequences, any wits or form, proper: to 


that this, poison Is i . astant use among ‘tae Pict] 


+ y, and forms ‘the prineipal ingredient.in most 0% 
those nostrums sold throughout the country, unde? 


the names of drops, powders, washes, balsams, &c: 
and there can be no ‘doubt that thousands either die: 
ecomeé miserable invalids in consequence. 
Anti mony, inthe modern OTC GTS is the 
name given to 4 Ritin metal. The antimoniay 
‘metal i is a medicinesof the greatest power of any 
known substance; a quantity too minute to be sen: 
sible in the most delicate balance, is capable or 
roducing violent effects, if taken dissolved, or. ini 
‘soluble state.?” “ Sulphureted antimony - was em 
"ployed by the ancients in Collyria, against inflam: 
mation of the eyes, and for staining the eyebrowy 
_ black. its internal use does not seem to have beer 


_ established till. the end of the fifteenth century; ani 


ime, it was, by any looked upe yn 
“All the metalic preparations : fe un 
tirely. depends on the stat of thi 
nether they have no action at all; o 
dan iolence. ‘ite The princips 


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ie OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ig 
general medicinal application of antimony has been. 
for the use of febrile affections.” ‘In the latter 
stage of fever, where debility prevails, its use ig 


inadmissable.” 
medigine ij shall leave it to the he reader t to judge for 


hims 
sé Nitre—Salt Petre. This salt, consisting © of 
nitric acid and potash, is found ready formed on - 
surface of ‘the soil in warm climates. ” -* Purifie 
nitre is prescribed with advage age in numerous dis- 
Its virtues are chow ee refrigerant and 
Tr is-usually given in doses from two or 
a very cooling and 
resolvent medicine, which ‘by relg cing the spasinodic 
rigidity,of the vessels promotes hot only the secre 
tion of urine, but at ‘« same time inse nsible pei 
-piration, ap febrile disorders; while it allays thiPer 
and-abates heat; though in malignant cases in which 
the pulse is low, and the patient’s strength exhaust- 
ed, it produces contrary effects.” “This power- 
ful salt, when inadvert tena taken i in too large @ 
tities, is one of the most al pdisons.” “For s me 
interesting Observations relative to the eleter us 
roperties of salt petre. the reader-is referred to. 
Dr. Mitchell’s letter to Dr. Priestly. e 
I have found from a series of practical experi- 
ments@or inany years, that salt petre has the most 
certain dnd deadly effects upon the human ‘a 
ef any drug that is used as medicine. Although 
the effects ‘produced by it are not so immediately 
fatal as many others, yet its whole tendency is {, 


orders. 


diuretic. 
“three grains to a scruple, being 


counteract the principles of life, and destroy the 
operation of nature. Experience has taught me 
that it is the Most powerful enemy ealth, and 


that it is the most difficult oppo ent 
with any degree of success, that. T 


with. “Being in its ae cold, there cal une 


de i es 
, “& Aw a tg a . 


Of the propriety of using this metalic 


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36. ‘NEW GUIDE To HEALTH j-. > 
ell efinets, produced by it, than to increase the 
power of that enemy of heat, and to lessen its: ne- 
cessary influence. 

“Opium, when taken into the stomach, to such a an 
extent as to have any sensible effect, gives rise toa 
pleasant serenity of the mind, in general proe eeding 
‘toa certain degree of Manguor and drowsiness. - It 
excites thirst, and renders the mouth dry and parch- 
ed.- -Takeni n to. whe stomach in.a- darger a Se, gives. 
rise to, confusion of the head and vertigo. «The 
powers. of all ‘stimulating causes af making 1 “pres: 
sions on the body are diminished; and even at-times. 
and in situations, when a ‘person would naturally be” 
Jawake, sleep irresistably induced. In stilhlarger 
doses, it acts in the same manner. as the narcotic 
_poisons, giving rise to vertigo, héadache, tremors, 
de lerifins and convulsions; abd these”terminating | in. 
a state of stupor, from: ewhieh the person cannot be. 
roused. ‘Fhis’stupor is acconmipanied with slowness 
of the pes and with stertor in breathing, and the 
scene terminated me«death, attended with ‘the 

; . Becarances take place in an apoplexy. In 

pittents. it is ad to have been used with good 
effect. Itis often of verv great service in fevers of 
the typhoid type. In small pox, when the convulsions 
before eruption are fre quent and considerable, opi- 
uin is liberally used. In cholera and pyrosig, it is 
almost the only thing trusted to The administra- 
‘tion of opium to the unaccustomed, is sometimes | 
very difficult. The requisite quantity of opium is; 
wonderfully different in different persons, and in: 

~ “different states of the same person. A quarter of | 
a grain will in “one adult, produce effects which ten) 
times the quantity wall vot do in anothér. The lowest! 
fatal dose, to the t unaccustomed, as mentioned by: 


iy authere el to be four etainey but a dangerous: 


ie ae | 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ‘87 


dose.is so. aptito puke, that it has seldom time to 
occasion death.” 

From the above extracts it will readily be seen 
that the use of opium as medicine, is very danger- 
_ous, at least, if -not destructive to realth; its advo- 
‘cates, it willbe observed, do not pretend that it will 
cure any disorder, but is used ag a palliative for the 
purpose ‘of easing pain, by destroying. sensibility. 
~Pain is caused by disease, and there can be no other 

way to relieve it, but by ‘removing the cause.— 

Sleep produced by opium is unnatural, and affords 
‘no reliet to the patient, being nothing more thana 
- Suspension of his senses; and Wemight “with as much 
propriety be said, that a state of delirium is bene- 
. ficial, for a person in that situation is not sensible 
of pain... The fact is, opium is a poison, and’ when 
taken ae the system, produces no other effect than 
to strengthen the power of the enemy to health, by 
deadening the- sensible organs of the stomach: and 
‘intestines, and prevengps”* them from performing 
-their natural functions, so ina ortant.to the main- 
tainie of health and Vife. To alt the cases, that 
have come-within my eniwindiees “where the patient . 
has been Jong in the habit of taking-opium, I have 
found it- almost impossible, after removing the dis- 

easegto restcre the digestive powers of the stomach, 
T have made the foregoing extracts on the subject 

of poisons, for the purpose ofggiving a more plain 
and simple view of the pernicious consequences 
caused by their being given as medicine, than I 
eould do in any other manner,. -In this short ad-~ 
dress it is impossible to do that justice to the sub- 
ject that I could wish, and which its importance 
demands; but I am not without hope, that what is 
here given will satisfy every candid person who reads 
it, of the truth of those principles which it has been 
at all times my endeavor to inculcate, ad the benefit 


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be 
38° NEW GUIDE TO HHALTH ; 


of mankind, and cotvince them, that what has a 
tendency to destroy ite, can never be useful in re- 
storing health. 4 - 
In_ support of what has been afore said on the 
use of mercury, I will here give a short extract 
from Dr. Manin’s Medical Sketches, which is but.a@ 
trifle in comparison with the many eases that he has 
given of the fatal effects of that poison: — - 
‘*Calomel should never be administered, uelene 
the patient is so situated that the skin may be pre« 
served in its natural warmth. If this is not attended 
to during its administration, either the bowels or. 
glands of the mouth suffer. To one of these parts 
it frequently directs all its stimulating powers, and 


induces on one or the other, high degrees of inflam-. 


ation, which. terminates in mortification of the 
intestines, or destruction of not paly the” mine cles} 
but the bones of the face. 


“Four cases under these founadable effects oF 


mercurial ptyalism, were ac mitted into the general 
hospital at Lewistuwn; three of whom died with 
their. 7 wseand faces dreadfully mutilated. * The 
fourth: recovered with the loss of, the inferior max- 
“illa on one side, and the teeth on the other. He 
lived a most wretched life, deformed in his feattres, 
(when [last saw the patient, ) incapable of takin z food 
except through a small aperture, in place of his 

moutir.”? Pig "ys 

~ * 

There are several vegetables that grow common 
in this country, which are poisons; and in- order 
‘that the public may be on their guard against Using 


ee | 


them as medicine, [ will here give a hee of iane 


within my knowledge, viz:—Garden Hemlock,— 
Night Shade —Apple Peru,—Poppy,— Henbane,— 
Poke Root,—Mandrake Root,—--Gaivet ee 
Wild Parsnip,—Indigo Weed, —Ivy,—Dogwood 
Tobacco, and Laurel, In case either of tl ese 


e « 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PrrvsicraN,  =—- SB 


articles, or any other poison should be taken through 
accident, or otherwise, a strong preparation of No. 
1, with a small quantity of No. 2, will be found to 
be asovereimremedy. | = 
Cases frequentiy oecur in the country of being 
poisoned CaP TOE, by some of the above vegeta- 
je*poisons, in which they swell very much, When 
this hap . by taking No, 2, 8r composition, and 
Washing with the tincture, or the third preparation 
of No.1, relief may be speedily obtamed. ~—  & 
_ It isacommon thing with the doctorsto make 
use of many of the above inentione vegetable poi- 
sons as medicine; but I would caution the public 
against the use of thm in any way whavever as 
they will have no other effect than to increase the. 
difficulty, and injure the constitution of the patient; 
being deadly poisons, it is impossible that they can 
do any good. No dumb beast will ever touch them, 
and they are correct judges of what is good for food 
OF medicine. ~~ ; 


apothecaries. It is well known to be- 
poison of any vegetable, 
_times to put criminals to death; but this was before 
jt was ever thought of, that the same article that " 
would cause immediate death when taken for that 
‘purpose, would also cure disease. ee 
_ _ Many persons that pretend to make use of my sys- 
tem of.gractice, are in the habit of using some of 
the vegetables that I have mentioned as poisonous, 
I wish the public to understand that it is entirely un- 


* 


40 4 SEW GUDETONEALTE, 
authorised by me, as there is nothing In-my practice 
ne but sed to every 


: | | oe ease, as 
they describe ever beenrecommended by me:1 


2 


neither 


XG ee 

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PRS re A : : : : - pica Oe Mpa 3 - 

* convenient for them, and has become com | 


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¥: * - Silene aaa 
Pe Ce Rape ret oak 
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co ae ee ces 
* sn Sight Pi 
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OR, BOTANIC ee PHYSICIAN, at ie 
“THE DOCTORS WwiTHouT. A SYSTEM. 


That the doctors have no system, aig a fact pretty 
generally acknowledged. by themselves; or at least, 
they have none that hag b | fixed upon as a general - 

ule for their practice. Almost every great man “ 
~ among them, ha “a sys stem of his own, which 
has been followed | adherents till some other 
one is. eh forwaid, mc gitshionable. This is, © 
undoubtedly, 3 reat, evil, for it ‘thing 
uncertain; . a it is. ‘anssantly ehangim, *, there 
‘can be no ‘dependence on any thing, and the pra ractice. 
must always be experimental; no useful kne wledg é 
ean be ob ia n red. by ‘the young _praetitiotiers,. as tne 
will be. cons ntly” seeking. afternew theories. What 
‘should we Say of a carpenter who should undertake. 
to repair a building withoat having any rule to.work 
by, and. should, for want of one, destroy the half of — — 
all he u gecrtookage o-repair ’ The employers would 
soon 1 il confidence in him, and dismiss him as 
an ign rant blockhead. And is it not of-i: initely 
g more aportanee for those who undertake to repair 
the human body, to have some cortecta ule to work 
; byt Their practice is founded on visionary theories, 
_ which are so-yn¢ertain and _contradictory. that it is 
impossisie to form any. correct general rule as" . 
guide. to be depended-upon. In order to show 
opinions of others, as ye as my own, Tshall r 
a few extracts from dat writers on the stbject —_ 
Bpeaging of the revolutions of medicines, one says: 
* e have now. noticed the principle revolutions 
of medicine; and we plainly perceive that the theory ___ 
of medicine, not only has been, but is yet, inan ~ 
unsettled state; that its practical application ise 
wavering, fallacious, and extremely pernicious; an 
taking a survey of the various fortunes of the art, . 
we wer, ‘well say with Bacon, that. medicine is a 


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{y NEW GUIDE To HEALTH; 
| se 
oS 
hath been more professed than labored, 
ore labored than advanced; the laborhaving 
on ‘in a circle, but notin progression.” 
© Theories ate but the butterflies of the ae 


they buzz for a while, | and then expire. Wecan 


theory overturn-— 


ie a for many ce turies past, one 
Ssion, promisiis 


another, yet eack a, 1D its su 
itself immortality. = | 
he application o ‘of ne rules whieh Bi prace- 
titionerlays d down to himself, is . 
choice, no.one can err with Aimy 


erroneous view leads to some ynsequence We 
must remember the lives of our fellow. cx satures are 
af stake. For; how many cruel and premature 
deaths; how many impaired and debi itated consti-" 
tutions have paid for the. olly of theories? Follies, 


which have proved almost always fascine ting. The 


study ofa system is more easy than an investigation 
of nature; and in Practice, it seems to os every 


difficulty.” 


“Tn my re on the art of a: (says D 
Ring,). both theoretical and practical, I have ‘fully 
proved that there i is no necessity for that bane of the 


‘ as 


profession, conjecture or hypothesis;- an I were - 


asked whet 4% if I myself, were dangerously ill I 
would su any hypothetical, however plausible 
physician, to prescribe for my malady, my answer 
would he no, assuredly _ Né ; unless T Wished to risk 


the loss oF my life. T could give a remarkable 
instance of this.” 


ae 
“Speculation and— HYPOTHESIS are awils. at 


“variance with SOUND EXPERIENCE and successful 
- PRAeTICH.” 

The above extracts evince: the pernicious effects 
of false theory and hypothesis, which at thespre nt 
day constitute nearly the whole art of phy: ig. s 

The following just remarks are copied from the 
writings of the Rev. John Wesley. i 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. oy 43 
Ws theories increased, simple medicines were 
more and mofe disregarded arid disused; till, ina 
course of years, the greater ‘part of them were for-_ 
gotten, at least in the more polite nations. In the 
room of these, abundance of new ones were intro- =) 
duced, by reasoning, speculative men; and those, 
more and mere diffieullt t » bea pp d, as being more 
remote from common observation.. Hénce rules for 
the application-of these, and medical books were ~ 
immensely multiplied; till at length physic became an 
abstruse sciénce, quite out of the reach of ordinary 


v5 5 : 
men. Physicians now began to be held in admira- 
tion, as persons who were something more than 
human, fit attended their employ, as well 


as honor. $ ney had now two weighty reasons 
for keeping the bulk of mankind at a. distance, that 
th: y might not pry into the mysteries of their pro- 
fession. To sim eae increa~ed those difficulties. — 
by design, which vere, in-a manner, by accident. 
They filled their writings with abundance of tech- 
nical t petterly unintelligible to plain men.” 
a $6 Ee PE TIE doystoed only hew to restore the 
sick to health, they branded with the name of Em-— 
piries. They introduced into practicé, abundance — 
of compound medicinces, consisting of so many in- 
eredients, that it was scarce possible for common 
people to know. which it was that wrought the cure. 
Abundance of exotics, neither the nature nor names 
of which, their own countrymen understood.” 
«‘ The history of the art of medicine in all ages, 
(says Dr. Blane,) so teems with the fanciful influence 
of superstitious observances, the imaginary virtues 
of medicines, with nugatory, delusive, inefficient, 
an capricious practices, fallacious and sophistical 
reasonings, as to render it little more than a chaos of 
error, a tissue of deceit, unworthy of admission 


9 3. 


among the useful arts and liberal pursuits of man- 


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44 Sy NEW euIDn TO. o HEALTH p> oy 


ae 


rise See a f - DESCRIPTION. oF THE a ee. : \« 
VEGETABLE mp 


; RDIOINES, 
USEDIIN MY a aes or PRACTICE. bide 
os 


*, faeces ‘idings Gtl bigest I ae use| 
(int moving sdjsease and restoring the health of’ 
atient, agreeabl to my system of Epragtice, I 
-Taention, ‘those’ only which 

ay useful. by a long series of prac 
*9 in the use ofewhich I have been 
ing the desired object. A great 
im “the: vegetable kingdom, that 


ae 


Fo cime,,m might described and dic Rey 
pointed out, if ] thought it wo: eficial;” in 
fact, Ta fide 1 5 ow vegetable 

OY agpotuctioas o of our country, that. EDot a tolera- 

e good’ k snowledge of, it hav een my, principal 


study for - above. thirty years) “but to. un dertake to 
a deseribe them all, would-bo useless and unp ofitable 
to my readers, and coul Mad to good result. 
“The plan that I have adopted in eset such 
Wiarticles as I) have thought necessary to méation, and 
. iving “directions, how to prepare. and administer 
. them, is to élass them under the numbers which form 
_ my system. cof practice; this was thought to be the 
best way. to give a correct and. 2h Mi understanding. of 
the whole subject. Hae 
effect a certain object, whit 
each, as they are introduced; “every article theres 
fore, that i is useful in promoting: such object, will be 
déscribed as applicable to the number under which 
it is classed. The three first are used to remove 
disease, and the others as restoratives, There 
a naipaier of preparations and c compounds :t a 
made use of and found good in curing ¥ ario 


ae coe 


OR, sotaste pata meters fe 45° 


pits; the diréetions for making. them, and-a de-- 
-seription of the arti of Which they are mposed 
&re given, as fa in wae med. necessary. < ~ The 
manner of appl pede hem will be hereafier a 
particularly pine: en count 

of the ee of treatir hope of the ont t nol 
“tant cases” of f dis | have come und SF fF 
ageree Be oy > ss 6s ee 


. 


See be ae glues * 3 oie a > 


Gieo 
sg . 


e 


EA NSE ome stomaci, OVERPOWER THE. 
2 Sas. 

DPR TE A FREE PERSPIRATION. a 

e ia ey 


* 


ical virtue ‘of wich andthe te scrutett it in 
curing disease, I claim as-amy own. 1 discovery. ’ “The 
. first k: wledge ever had of it, was vinapee by” 
accident, more: than. forty years ago; and never had 
~ information whatever concerning ie sont whe 
ee by my own experience. | 2 
ha en said of late, about this plant, 

and against its utility as. a medicine; ; at allt 

the faculty have said or published concerning a 
*. shows their ie subject; for there 
ery little truth in what they have stated concern- 

ing its medical properties, except wherein they Be 
admitted it to be a certain c re for the asthma, one 
of the most distressing com ats that human nature 
is subject to. It is a truth which cannot be disputed 
any one, that all they have known about this 
arti e, and the experiments that have been made to 


2 


-¢ it was SO. atin: removing f 
ist be poison. ‘This, [-think, can be 
orily ac counted for; they hat enoknow= ; 
thing in ad Be yt of selene, 


de that net seal 


es the Seren system, exespt. ita u 
~~. therefore naturally form their } 
this ‘ear$neous theory. There is po 
life and: a” power to produce deay 
fF  cienes <—. 


t Ca aod las 
his onsists all the 
rence betwe m of practice, and that 
: the learned doctors. In_ sorisequence of their 
thus: forming Le opinion. of this herb, 

_ which they ha knowledge of, they undertook to 
yepresent it as a Rae poison; and ingame! to. 


4 my eyatog m 3 


x roy my. p: ractice, they ra ised a hue yee Pout 
. 3 ‘de my patients by ainistéring to them. 
of the: faculy, even ade oath,. hate Was 


poison, and when taken into the stomach, 1 ifit did 
_ not cause immediate vomiting, it was certain death. 
gd - Ttis unecessary for me now to point out the falsity 
of this, for the fact is*pretty ! 


is.no death init: but, on the contre 
no vegetable that.the earth produce 
in its effects on the : syste 
powerful i in removing g 
There is no mention: made 
author, that I have ee to 


diseovering it, exeepting 
Ries 


bit a - 
this Betts by any. 
ous 


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HYSICIAN. tag 47 * 


oR, BO’ 
ie 


option of it under the name of. Lobelia. 
8 gin snd af its medical rO~ 
therefore reasonable to conclude t shat, 
t known till T discovered it, and provet 
‘Whenthe faculty first ade the di 
-eovery that I used the packs Herb in my pr 


_they.declared it 16 be a ae hg pelsnie. a while 
persecuting me by every means intl d 
representing to the. world that 1 kille S 

with it, they were very ready to salLiee 
* and allow it my.own discovery; but sinc 
ignorance of it has been exposed, and they find it is oe: 
i narticle of @reatevalue, an ak Bias 
seems to be ma ing, to rob me of all ‘the er ASE 
causing its value to be known; and the Profits a 


pense. | 


Dr. eR in ertaken =. 
*. ae an account ofsshis herb: but he is very 
s, exeept in the descrip ion of it, which is 


nearly corout It appears all the knowleds ee 
he has. ne subject as tol s virtue is borre 
ey a : ‘ ived from the a 


orses and cattle have ig siigecet to be killed ise 
-eating it aecident bsurd as it is untrue, 
and;only proves their ignorante.of the article. He 
i a melanie tory about the Lobelia Inflata 
ae qe adventurous hand of a 
noted, 0 


y a ” 
oe 4 . at) gd 


i 
ing éxamples of its del 
effects... 1 “his, there is 
took its rise from the ae shan st ace 
-s about me, at He time of my tria P djudice the — 
ae against my practice. Tt-is he'c at - 
Lusually prescribed is a tea spoonful of he powder; _ 
t that itever-produced any fatal: effects, is alto: - 
1er- incorrect, and is well. known to be so by all _ 
who have any correctknowledge on the subject. 
- AW. ie is quoted in th iene itory, from the | 
Dr. M. er, ad 1s” herb, is, in 
orl egards its being 
bored: under 


etic and then‘ as 
the same as those. 
lartics.”? Tn this he 
ferent from any hate 
as tc AS cane a cathart 
ke ee (ae in all my ~ 
t t know something 
0! “it for above twenty 
fering it in e very form and man- 
ner nde it can be given: “ane for every disease that 
ee come within my knowledge. © It appears that. 
all the knowledge he and. other doctors have got Off 
‘this nee being useful in curing di ease, p icularly 
in the asthma, was obtained from me} for when I was. 
prosecuted, I was obliged to expose my Ds Cale 


a1 


to show the falsity of | the indictment. Dr. Cut rs 
was ban forward as a witness at my trial; to — 
? it 1is evidence, that. 


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DR, BOTANIC FA) PHYSICIAN, . 493 

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- ‘eomplaint was from , Drury of Marblehead. In 
the fall of thegest 1807, I introdueed the use of the 
Emetic Herb, tinctured in spirit, for the asthma, and 
: a complaints of the lungs#and cured several of 

the consumption. In 1808, I cured a woman in ~ 
Newington of the asthma, who had not lain in her 
bed for six months. I gathered some of the young 
plants, ae larger than a dollar, bruised them, and 
_ tinctured them in spirits, gave her the fincture and 
she lay in bed the first night. “I showed her what it 


was and how to. prepare and use it, and®by taking 
this and other things, according to my direction, st 
has enjoyed a comfortable state of health for twelve _ 
years, and has never been obliged to sit upone night 
since. The same fall, I used it in Beverly and 

. Salom;. and there can be no doubt but all theinform- 


ation coneerning the value of this article was - 
obtained from my ee ee ion te Me 
After Dr. Cutler had given his testimony of the - 

“Wirtues of this herb, and the doctors having become e 

- convinced of its value;they come forward and say it - 

g 8 good medicine in skilful hands. Who,!I would 
ask, is more skilful than he who discovered it and _ 
taught,them how to prepare afideuse itincuring one ~ 
of the most distressing complaintsknown? If it is 
good ‘Medicine, it is mine, and I am entitled to the 
credit of introducing it into use, and have paid dear 
for it; if it is poison the doctors do not, need it, as 
they haveenough ofthat now. Dr. Thacher under- 
__ takes to make it appear that the fatal effects he tells 
~ about its p ducing, was owing to the quantity given; 
_ and says [administered a tea spoonful of the pow- 

. der; and when he comes to give directions for using 
it, says that from ten to twenty 9 ains - ay be given 
with safety. Itappears strange that differe t terms : 
should produce such different effects in thiaee Tie 
of medicine. If a tea spoonful is given by an E84 ee 


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piric, its effects are fatal; but if the same quantity 
is administered by a learned doctor and called grains, 
itisausefulmedicine! es 
_ This herb is described in Thacher’s Dispensatory 
under the names of Lobelia Inflata, Lobelia Emetica, 
Emetic Weed, and Indian Tobacco; and several 
other names haye been given it, some by way of 
ridicule and others. for the purpose of ereating a 
prejudice against it all of which has so confounded 
it with other articles that there is a difficulty in 
ascertaining what they mean to describe. I have 
been informed there is a poisonous root grows in the 
Southern States, called Lobelia, which has been used 
as a medicine; the calling this herb by that name, 
bas probably been one reason of its being thought — 
to be poison. Why it has had the name of Indian 
Tobacco given it, 1 know not: there is a plant that 
is called by that name, which grows in this country, 
but is entirely different from this herb, both in 
appearance and medical. virtues. ‘In the United 
States Pharmacopeia, there are directions given for 
- preparing the tincture of Indian Tobacco; whether — 
“they mean this herb or the plant that has been 
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always called by that name, does not appear; but it 
is probable they mean the Emetic Herb, and that all 
the knowledge they have of it, is from Dr. Cutler’s 
description. It is said by Thacher that it was em- 
ployed by the aborigines and by those who deal in » 
Indian remedies; and others who are attempting to 
rob me of the discovery, affect to believe the same 
thing; but this is founded altogether upon conjecture, 
for they cannot produce a single instance of its 
having been employed as a medicine till I made use 
ef it. The fact is, it is a new article, wholly 
unknown to the medical faculty til} ¥ introduced it 
into use, and the best evidence of tins, is, that taey 
are now ignorant of its powers; and all the knew- 


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ledge they have of it has been obtained from my 


practice. It would be folly for me to undertake to’ 


say but that it may have been used by the natives of 
this country; bur one thing IT am certain of, that I 
never had any knowledge of their using it, nor ever 
received any information concerning it from them or 
any one else. me 
The Emetic Herb may be found in the first stages. 
of its growth at all times through the summer, from 
the bigness of a six cent piece to that of a dollarand 
larger, lying flat on the ground, in around form, like 
a rose, pressed flat, in order to bear the weight of 
snow which lays on it during the winter, and is sub- 
ject to be winter-killed, like wheat. In the spring, 
it looks yellow and pale, like other things suffering 
from wet and cold; but when the returning sun 
spreads forth its enlivening rays upon it, lifts up its 
leaves and shoots forth a stalk of the height of from 
twelve to fifteen inches, with a number of branches 
eatrying upits leaves withgrowth. In July, it puts 
‘orth small pale blue blossoms, which are followed by 
all-pods about ‘the size of a white bean, contain- 


inlet and outlet’ higher than the middle; from the 
inlet it receives nourishment and by the outlet dis- 
eharges the seeds. «It comes to maturity about the. 
first of September, when the leaves pods.turna 
little yellow; this is the best time to ga me 4 It 
is what is called by botanists, a biennial plant, orof 
only two years existence. Bs 

This plant is common in all parts of. this country. 
Wherever the land is fertile enouch to yield support 
for its inhabitants, it may be found. . 1 is confined 
to no soil which is fit for inp eg 1 the highest 
mountains to the lowest valleys. In hot and wet 
seasons it is most pleuty on dry and warm Jands— 
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in hot and dry seasons, on clayey and heavy lands... 
When the season is cold, either wet or dry, it rarely; 
makesits appearance; and if the summer and fall iss 
very dry the seed does not come up. and of course, , 
there will be very little to be found the next season... 
I have been in search of this herb from Boston to» 
Canada, and was not able to collect more than two 
pounds; and in some seasons I have not been able tos 
eollect any. I mention this to show the uncertaintyy 
of its growth, and to put the people on their guard: 
to. be careful and lay up a good stock of it whem 
plenty. Inthe year 1507, if I had offered a reward: 
of a thousand dollars for a pound of this herb, 1 
should not have been able to have obtained it. 
have seen the time that I would have given two 
dollars for an ounce of the powder, but there was none 
to be had; which necessity taught me to lay up all 
T could obtain when it was plenty. 

- In seasons: when this herb is plenty, it may be 
found growing in highways and pastures, by the 
side of old turnpikes, and in stubble land, particu 


larly where it has been laid down'to grass the year 


before. When grass is scarce, it is eaten by cattle? 


and is hard to be found when full grown. It is & 


wild plant and a native of this country; but there is 
no doubt of its being common to other countries: 


- It may be transplanted and cultivated in gardens anc 


will be much larger and more vigorous than wher 
growing wild. If some stalks are left, it will sow 
itself, and probably may be produced from the seed: 
but how long the seed remains in the ground before 
they come up, I do not know, never having madé 
any experiments to ascertain the fact. It is certaix 
¢hat itis produced from the sced, and there is no goo» 
reason to suppose that it may not be cultivated in 
gardens from the seed as well as other vegetables; 


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the plant, that it willnot come up till the seeds have 
lain at least one winter in the ground. 

This plant is different in one very important par- 
ticular, from all others that I have a knowledge of, 
that the same quantity will produce the same effect 
in all stages of its growth, from its first appearance 
till it comes to maturity; but the best time for gath- 
ering it, as has been before mentioned, is when the 
‘leaves and pods begin to turn yellow, for then the 
seed is ripe and you have all there can be of it. It 
should then be cut and kept clean, and spread in a 

_large chamber or loft, to dry, where it is open to the 
air in the day time and to be shut from the damp air 
during the night. When perfectly dry, shake out 
the seed and sift it through a common meal sieve, 
and preserve it by itself; then beat off the leaves 
and pods from the stalks and preserve them clean. 
This herb may be prepared for use in three different 
ways, viz:—Ist, the powdered leaves and pods. 2d, 
a tincture made from the green herb with spirit. 
3d, the seeds reduced.to a fine powder and com- 

ounded with Nos.2 and 6- 

1. After the leaves and pods are separated from 
the stalks, pound or grind them in a mortar to fine _ 
powder, sift it through a fine sieve, and preserve it 
fromtheair. This is the most common preparation, 
and may begiven in many difierent ways, either by 
itself or compounded with other articles. For a 
eommon dose, take a tea spoonful of this powder with 
the same quantity of sugar, ina tea cup half full of 
warm water, or a tea of No, 3, may be used instead 
of the water; this dose may be taken all at one time 


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or at three times, at intervals of ten minutes. For 
a young child strain off the liquor aadoiuca part 
as circumstances shall require. There is but one 
way in which this herb can be prepared that it will 
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it is therefore important to bear in mind that there 
must never be any thing put to it warmer than a 
blood heat; x <0 ie 

2. To prepare the tincture, take the green herb 
in any stage of its growth, (if the small plants are 
used, take: roots.and ail,) put them into a mortar and 
pound then: fine, then add. the same quantity of 
good spirits; when well pounded and worked to- 
gether, strain it through a fine-cloth and squeeze 
and press it hard to get out all the juice: save the 
liquor’in bottles, close Stopped, for use. Good vin- 
egar, or pepper-sauce may be used instead of the 
Spirit. Prepared in this manner, it is an effectual 
eounter-poison, either taken, or externally applied. 
It is also an excellent medicine for the asthma and 
all complaints of the lungs. This.is. the only way 
in which the doctors have made use of the Emetic 
Herb; and they acknowledge it to be one of the best 
remedies in: many complaints, that has been found, 
though they know but little about it. Fora dose, 
‘take from half to a tea spoonful. Its effect will be. 


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more certain if about the same quantity of No. 2 is 
added, and in all cases where there are nervous 
symptoms, add half a tea spoonful of nerve powder 
“(Umbil) to the dose. 

3. Reduce the seeds to a fine powder in a mortar, 
and take half an ounce: of this powder, or about a 
large spoonful, with the same quantity of No. 2, 
made fine, and put them in a gill of No. 6, adding a 
tea spoonful of Umbil; to be kept close stopped in 
a bottle for use; when taken, to be well shaken to- 
gether. This preparation is for the most violent 

attacks of disease, such as lock-jaw, bite of mad 

dogs, drowned persons, fits, spasms, and inall cases 
of suspended animation, where the vital spark is 
nearly extinct. It will go through the system like 
electricity, giving heat and life te every part. In 


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gases where the spasms are so violent that they are 
stiff, and the jaws become set, by pouring some of 
this liquid into the mouth between the cheek and 
teeth, as soon as it touches the glands at the roots 
of the tongue the spasms will relax, and the jaws 
will become loosened go that the mouth will open; 
then give a dose of it, and as soun as the spasms 
bave abated, repeat it, and afterwards give a tea of 
No. 3, for canker. This course I never knew fail 
of-giving relief. Itis good in less violent cases, to 
bring out the meazles and small pox; and if applied 
to pimples, warts, &c. will remove them. lave 
cured three dogs with this preparation, who were 
under the most violent symptoms of hydrophobia. 
Onc of my agents cured a man with it, who had been. 
bitten by a mad dog; and I have not the least doubt 
of its being a specific for that disease. Fora dose, 
take a tea spoonful. 2 

Much has been said of the power of the Emetic 
Herb, and some have expressed fears of it on that 
aceount; but I can assure the public that there is 
not the least danger in using it; [ have given it to 
children of one day old and,persons of eighty years. 
It is most powerful in removing disease, but innocent 
in its effects. ts operation on different persons, 1g, 
according to their different tempers, moving with’ 
the natural current of the animal spirits. There ie 

_two cases where this medicine will not operate, viz: 
when the patient is dying, and when there is ne 
death. There can be no war where there is ne 
enemy. When there is no cold in the body there 
is nothing to contend against, and when there is no 


heat in the body there is nothing to kindle; in either — 


case therefore, this medicine is silent and harmless. 

It is calculated to remove the cause and no more, as 

food removes hunger and drink thirst. “It clears all 

obstructions to the extremities, without regard to 

the names of disease, until it produces an equililt- 
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rium in the system, ard will be felt in the fingers and 
toes, producing a prickling feeling like that caused 
bya knock on the elbow. This symptom is alarm- 
ing to those unacquainted with its operation, but ig 
salways favorable; being a certain indication of the 
turn of the disorder, and they generally gain from 
that time. 
_ Io regard to the quantity to be given as a dose, it 
“IS matter of legs consequence than is generally im- 
agined. "The most important thing is to give enough 
to produce the desired effect. If too little is given 
it will worry the patient and do little good; if more 
is given than what is necessary the surplus will be 
thrown off, and is a waste of medicine. I have 
given directions, what I consider as a proper dose 
in common cases, of the different preparations, but 
still it must be left to the judgment of those who 
use it, how much to give. The most safe way will 
be to give the smallest prescribed dose first, then 
repeat it till it produce the wished Operation. In 
cases where the stomach ts cold and very foul, its 
operation will be slow and uncertain; in which 
case, give No. 2, which will assist it in daing its 
_ work. cS ee 
- When this medicine is given ¢o patients that are 
ina decline, or are laboring under a disease of long 
standing, the symptoms indicating a crisis will not 
take place till they have been carried through fron - 
three to eight courses of the medicine; and the 
lower. they have -been, the more alarming the 
Symptoms. I have seen some who would lay 
and sob like a child that had been punished, 
fer two hours, not able te speak or to raise 
their hands to their head; and the next day be about 
and soon get well. In cases where they have taken 
considerable opium, and this medicine is adminis- 
tered, it will, in its operation, produce the same 
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opium when first given, which having lain dormant, 


is roused into action by the enlivening qualities of 
this medicine, and they will be thrown into a sense- 
less state: the whole system will be one complete 
mass of confusion, tumbling.in every direction; will 
take two or three to hold them on the bed; they 
grow cold as though dying; remaining in this way 
from two to eight hours, and then awake, like one 
from sleep, after a good night’s rest; be entirely 
calm and sensible, as though nothing had ailed them. 
It is seldom they ever have more than one of these 
turns; as it is the last struggle of the disease, and 
they generally begin to recover from that tine. I 
have been more particular in describing these effects 
of the mediéfine, as they are very alarming to those 
unacquainted with them, in order to show that there 
is no danger to be apprehended, as-it is certain 
evidence of a favorable turn of the disease. 

The Emetic Herb is of great value in preventing 
sickness as well as curing it; by taking adose when 
first attacked by any complaint it will “Mitow it off, 
and frequently prevent long sickness. It not only 
acts as an emetic, and throws off from the stomach 
every thing that nature does not require for support 
of the system, but extends its effects to every part 
of the body. It is searching, enlivening, quicken- 
ing, and has great power in removing all obstruc- 
tions: but it soon exhausts itself, and i/ not followed 
by some other medicine to hold the vital heat till 
nature is. able to support itself by digesting the food 
it will not be sufficient to remove a disease that has 
become seated. To effect this important object 
put me to much trouble, and after trying many 
experiments to get something that would answer the 
purpose, I found that what is described under No, 
2, was the best and only medicine F have a know!l- 
edge of, that would hold the heat in the stomach, 
and not evaporate; and by givieg No. 3, to remove 


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the canker, which is the great cause of disease; and 
then following with Nos. 4 and 5, to correct the bile, 
restore the digestion, and strengthen the system, I 
have had little trouble in effecting a cure. Diree~ 
tions for preparing these will be hereafter given. 


No. 2.—To REVAIN THE INTERNAL VITAL HEA® OF 
"HE SYSTEM, AND CAUSE A FREE PERSPIRATION, 


CAYENNE,==CAPSICUM. 


This article being so well known it will be.unne- 
eessary to be very particular in describing it. It 
has been a long time used for culinary purposes, 
and comes to us prepared for use by. being ground 
to powder and a proportion of salt mixed with it; 
this destroys in some degree its stimulating effects 
and makes it less pungent; but it is not so good for 
medicine as in the pure state. It is said to be a 
native of South America and is cultivated in many 
of the West India Islands; that which comes to this 
conntry is brought from Demerara and Jamaica. It 


one hundred pounds of it in the pod, which was 
brought from the coast of Guinea; had it ground at 
Portsmouth, and it was as good as any I ever used. 
There are several species that are described under 
the name of Capsicum; all of which are about the 
sane, as to their stimulating qualities. The pods 
only are used: they are long and pointed, are of a 
green color till ripe, when they turn of a bright 
orange red. When the pods are green they are 
gathered and preserved in sait and water and brought 
to this country in bottles, when vinegar is put to 
to them, which. is sold under the name of Pepper- 


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sauce. The ripe pods ground to a powder is what 


is used for medicine and cooking; but the Pepper- 
gauce is very good to be taken as medicine and 
applied externaily; the green pods hold their attract- 
ing power till ripe, and therefore keep their strength 
much longer when put in vinegar; as the bottle may 
be filled up a number of times and the strength 
seems to be the same; but when the ripe pods are 
put in vinegar, the first time will take nearly all the 
strength. ’ ‘ 

I shall not undertake to dispute but that Cayenne 
has been used for medical purposes long before I 
had any knowledge of it; and that it is one of the. 
safest and best articles ever discovered to remove 
disease, I know to be a fact, from long experience; 
hut it is equally true that the medical faculty never 
considered it of much value, and the peovie had no 
knowledge of it, as a medicine, till I introduced it, 
by making use of it in my practice. Mention is 
made of Cayenne in the Edinbergh Dispensatory, 
as chiefly employed for culinary purposes, but that 
of late it has been employed also in the practice of 
medicine. The author says, that “there can be 
little doubt that it furnishes one of the purest and 
strongest stimulants which can be introdu#ed. inte 
the stomach; while at the same time it has nothing 
of the narcotic effects of ardent spirits. It is said 
to have been used with success in curing some cases 
of disease, that had resisted all other remedies.” 
Ail this Tam satisfied 1s true, for given as a medi- 
Cine it always will be found useful; but all the know- 
ledge they had of it, seems to have been derived 
from a lew experiments that had been made, without 
fixing-vupon any particular manner of preparing or 
administering it, or in what disease, as is the case 
with all other articles that are introduced inta 
general practice, In Thacher's Dispensatory, the 


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saine account is given of Cayenne, as in the Edin- 
burgh, and in almost the same words. - 

i never had any knowledge of Cayenne being use- 
fil as a medicine, or that it had ever been used as 
such, till I discovered it by accident, as has been— 
the case with most other articles used by me.— 
After [had fixed upon a system for my government 
in practice, I found much difficulty in getting some- 
thing that would not only produce a strong heat in 
the body, but would retain it till the canker could be 
removed, and the digestive powers restored, so that 
the food, by being properly digested, wculd main-— 
tain the natural heat. I tried a great number of 
articles that were of a hot nature; but could find 
nothing that would hold the heat any length of time. 
{ made use of ginger, mustard, horse-radish, pep- 
permint, butternut-bark, and many other hot things; 
but they were all more or less volatile, and would 
not have the dediecd effect. With these, however, 
and the Emetie Herb, together with the aid of steam 
I was enabled to practice with pretty general suc- 
cess. In the fall of the year 1805, I was out in 
search of Umbil, on a mountain, in Walpole, New 
Hampshire. I went into a house at the foot of the 
mountain, to inquire for some rattlesnake oil; while 
in the house, I saw a large string of red peppers 
hanging in the room. which put me in mind of what - 
I had been a long time in search of, to retain the 
internal heat. Iknew them to be very hot; but did 
not know of whatnature. I obtained these peppers, 
carried them home, reduced them to powder, and 
took some of the powder myself and found it to 
answer the purpose better than any thing else [had 
made use of. I put it in spirit with the Emetic 
Herb, and gave the tincture mixed ina tea of Witch- 
hazle leaves, and found that it would retain the heat 
i the stomach after puking; and preserve the _ 


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strength of the patient in proportion. I made use 
of it in different ways, for two years, and always — 
with good succcss. _— 

In the fall of 1807, I was in Newburyport, and 
saw a bottle of pepper sauce, being the first I had 
ever seen; I bought it and carried it home; got 

-someof the same kind of pepper, that was dried, 
which I puf into the bottle; this made it very hot. 
On my way home, I was taken unwell, and was quite 
cold; I took a swallow from the bottle, which caused 
violent pain for a few minutes, when it produced 
perspiration, and I soon grew easy. I afterwards 
tried it and found that after it had expelled the cold, 
it would not cause pain. From these experiments, 
I became convinced that this kind of pepper was 
much stronger and would be better for medical use 
than the common red pepper. oon after this, I 
was again in Newburyport, and made inquiry and 

found some Cayenne; -but it was prepared with salt 
for table use, which injured it for medical purposes. 
I tried it by tasting, and selected that which had the 
least salt in it. I afterwards made use of this 
art cle and found it to answer all the purposes wished 

‘and was the very thing I had long been in search of. 
The next year I went to Portsmouth and made 
enquiries concerning Cayenne, and frony:hose whe 
dealt in the article, | learned that it was brought to 
this country from Demarara aud Jamaica, prepared 
only for table use, and that salt was put with it to 
preserve it and make it more palatable. I became 
acquainted with a French gentleman who had a 
prother in Demarara, and made arrangeme with 
him to send to his brother and request hit lea 

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cure some, and have it prepared We és : “He 
did so, and sent out’a box containing about eighty 
pounds in a pure state. [sent also by many others 
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Gure all they could: in consequence of which, large 
quantities were imported into Portsmouth, mach 
more than there was immediate demand for. I was 
not able to purchase but a sinall part of what was 
brought, and it was. bought up by others on specu- 
lation, and sent to Boston: the consequence was that 
the price was so much redueed, that it would no 
bring the first cost, which pata stop to its being 
imported, and it has since beev very scarce. 

_ When I first began to use this article, - it caused 
much talk among the people in Portsmouth and the 
adjoining towns. The doctors tried to frighten them 
by telling that | made use of Cayenne pepper as a 
medicine, and that it would -burn up the stomach 
and lungs as bad as vitriol. The people, generally, 
however, became convinced by using it, that all the 
doctors hee it was false, and. it only proved 


their ignorance of its medical virtues and their 
malignity towards me. It soon came into general, 
use, and the knowledge of its bemg. useful curing 
disease, was spread all th rough the country, I wade 
use of it in curing the spotted fever, and where it 
was known, was the only thing depended on for that 
disease. TI have made use of Cayenne in al! kinds 
of disease, and bave given it to patients of all ages 
and under-every circumstance that has Come under 
my practice; and can assure the public, that it is 
perfectly harmless, never dees Seong to pro- 
duce any bad eff cts whatever. It is, NG doubt, the 
most powerful s imulant known; its power is entire- 
ly congenial to nature, being polwerfithonty in raising 
and maintaining heat, on which life depends. “Tt-is 
extremely punzentand when taken. sets the mouth, 
as it were, on fire; this lasts, however, but a’ f=w 
minutes, and I consider it essentially a benefit, for 
ils effects on the glands causes the Saliva to flow 
freely and leaves the mouth clean and moist. 


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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, 

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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 


thing LT have fonnd. For medical use, they should 


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 


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substitute for Cayenne, when that of the red pep- 


way is to get the roots and grind or pound them tc 


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GINGER.. 
This is a root which is brought from foreigh 
sountries, and is too well kaown to need any farther: 
deseription. It is a very good article, having a 
warming and agreeable effect onthe stomach. Itis 
a powerful stimulant, and is not volatile like many, 
other hot articles; and is the next best thing to rais 
the inward heat and promote perspiration; and may; 
be used with good success for that purpose, as 
ynotbe had. Itis sold in the shops, ground; 
but is sometimes mixed with other articles to im- 
crease the quantity, and is not sostrong. The bess 


-a fine powder. The dose must be regulated accord, 
ing to circumstal.ces; ‘f given to raise the interna) 
heat and cause. perspiration, it must be repeated til) 
it has the desired effect. Jt makes an excelleny 


elm bark, for which purpose, I make much use of it/ 


it may be taken in hot water swee 


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This may be used to good advantage as a substi 
tute for the foregoing articles, when they are nott 
be had, and may be prepared and administered 1 
‘the same manner. These four that J have mentione> 
are all the articles I have been able to 
would hold the heat of the body for any length ¢ 
time; all the others that I have tried, are so volatil 
that they do little good. oe ee 


. 
lad 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 65 | 


No 3. To scour THE STOMACH AND BOWELS, 
n is a 
AND REMOVE THE CANKER. . 


Under this head I shall describe such vegetable 
productions as are good for canker, and which Ihave 
found to be the best in removing the thrush from the 
throat, stomach and bowels, caused by cold, and 
there will be more or less of it in all cases of dis- 
ease; for when cold gets the power over the inward ‘ 
heat, the stomach and bowels become coated with 
canker, which prevents those numerous little vessels 
ealculated to nourish the system, from pé rforming — 
their duty. A cure therefore, cannot be effected 
without removing this difficulty, which must 
done by such things asare best calculated to scour off 
the canker and leave the juices oer ng free. ‘There 
are many articles which are good for this, but I'shall _ 
‘Mention only such as I have found to be the best. 
Several things that are used for canker are too bind- 2 
ing, and do more hurt than good, as they cause ob- 
structions. I have adopted a rule to ascertain what 
is good for canker, which I have found very useful; 
and shall here give it as a guide for others; that is, 
to chew some of the article, and if it catises the 
saliva to flow freely and leaves:the mouth clean and 
moist, it is good; but on the other hand, if it dries 


sia dj 


s, and leaves the mouth rough aud dry, © : 
it is bad a d should be avoided. | eae ) 


il 


ra 


BAYBEERY, orn CANDLEBERR? 
oui : Oia 
This is a spebatof the myrtle from which 1 

obtained from the berries, and grows common in 
many apts of this country. Itisashrub growing  __ 
from two to four feet high, and is easily known by 
‘the berries which it: produces annually, containing 
/wax in a these er onthebranchesclose = 


eh 
- ‘ ri _ w. da 


t 


ie 


7 foul, it will frequently operate as an 


agit may then be obtained with little diff uty. It 


a 


mallet 
trouble. It should be dried in a chamber.or loft,, 


powder. It is anexcellent medicine, either taken) 
by itself, or compounded with other articles; and iss 
Te is highly stimulating and very pungent, prickling; 


‘to flow freely. Is good used as tooth powder, cleanses 
the teeth and gums, and removes the scurvy; taken! 


‘A 


66 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


to them, similar to the juniper; the leavesare of a 
deep green. The bark of the roots is what is used 
for medicine, and should be collected in the spring 
before it puts forthits leaves, orin the fall, after done 

owing, as then the, sap. is in the roots; this should. 
be attended to in gathering all kinds of medical. 
roots; but those things that the tops are used, should. 
be collected in the summer when nearly full grown, , 
as then the sap is in the-top. ‘The roots should be: 
dug and cleaned from the dirt, and pounded with a. 
or club, when the bark is. easily separated | 
e stalk, and may be. obtained. with little: 


where it is not exposed to the weather; and when: 
perfectly dry, should be ground or pounded to a fine: 


the best thing for canker, of any article I have found. 


the glands and causing the saliva and other juicess 


as snuff, it clears the head and relieves the head-ache. 
It may be given to advantage ina relax, and all dis- 
orders of the bowels. When the stomach is very 

nemetic. For a 
dose, take’a cea-spoonful, in hot water, sweetened. 


re ee ss 7 
‘WHITE POND LILY—THE ROOT. 


is common in all parts of this country where I hav 
been. The best time to gather it is in the fall of the 
year, when dry and the na ‘ 


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Re tls y gta © or, 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, C7. 
has large roots, which should’ ye dug, washed clean, 
split into strips, and dried, as has been directed for 
the Bayberry root bark. When perfectly dry, it 
should be pounded in a mortar, and preserved for 
use. This article is a very good medicine for canker 
and all complaints of the bowels, given in a tea 
alone, or mixed with other articles. © ay 


HEMLOCK—THE INNER BARK. 
This is the common Hemlock tree, and grows in 
all parts of New England. The best for medicine, 
is to peal the bark from the young tree and shave 
the ross from the outside and preserve only the inr 
rind; dry it carefully, and pound or grind toa 
powder. A tea, made by putting boiling waterto ~ 
this bark, is a good medicine for canker and many 
other complaints. The first of my using the Hem- 
lock bark, as medicine, was in 1814; being in want 
of something for canker, I tried some of it by chew- 
ing, found it to answer, and mace use of it to good 
advantage. Since then, I have been in constant use: 
of it, and have always found it a very good medicine, 
both for canker and other complaints of the bowels, 
and stomach. A tea, made of thisbark, isvery good 
od freely; itis good to give the emetic 


and No. 2 in, and may be used for drink inall cases 

7 a course: 

of medici nd steaming. This, with Bayberr: i 
“bark and Lily root, forms’ No. 3, or what has e 4 
~eommonly catledentiee, though many other things 


may be added, or either of them may be used to ad-~ 
vantage alone. The boughs, made into a tea, are 
_very good for the graveland other obstructionsof the = 


urinary passages, and for rheumatism.. ae aes <9 
urinary} ‘avd ee 
—_ ; st “hte 


* 


& 


“bark as No. 3, in my practice, for many years with: 


_ ledge that it was good for canker, was when at On- 
jon river, in 1807, attending the dysentery; being ir 


in that complaint, I found that the bark, leaves or ber~ 


_-and is found in all parts of the country; some of if 


pleasant sour taste; and are used by the country 


- altogether or either separate. A tea, m de of eitl 


68. NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH i; 


. MARSH ROSEMARY—THE ROOT. 


Tae 
sey 


This article is yery well known inall parts of thi 
country, and has heen made use of for canker and! 
sore mouth. I have made use of it with Bayberry, 


good success; but after finding that the Lily root 
and Hemlock bark were better, have mostly laid it 
aside. Itis so binding in its nature that it is not 
safe to use it without a large proportion of the Bay- 
berry bark. 


SUMACH—THE BARK, LEAVES, AND BERRIES. 

This appears to be a new article in medicine, en- 
tirely unknown to the medical faculty, as no mention 
is made of it by any author. The first of my know- 


want of something to clear the stomach and bowels 


ries answered the purpose extremely well, and have 
made much use of it ever since. It is well knowr 


grows from eight to twelve feet high, and has large 
‘spreading branches; the berries grow in large 
bunches, and when ripe are a deep red color, of « 


people to dye with. The leaves and young sprouts 
are made use of in tanning Morrocco leather. Foo 
medicine, the bark should be peeled when full of sap 
the leaves when full grown, and the berries wher 
ripe; they should be carefully dried, and when usee 
as part of No. 3, should be pounded and may be us 


or altogether, is very good and may be given wit! 
fety in almost all complaints, or put into the injec 
safety 1n alm aa. age ae as a] 
aR a MP Prat a 


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“ties 


4 o 

OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 69° 

x 
tions. It will scour the stomach aA bowels, eg is 
good for strangury, as it promotes urine and relieves 
difficulties in the kidneys, by removing obstructions 
and strengthening those parts. I have nae in the 

habit of late years, of making use of this article 

with Bayberry bark and Lily root, or Hemlock bark, 
equal parts, for No. 3, or coffee, ‘and it has always 
answered a Bood purpose. 


es 


WITCH-HAZLE—THE LEAVES. 


I found the use of this article as medicine, when 
I was quite-young; and have made much use of it in 
ali my practice. It is too well known in the country 
to need any description; is a small tree or bush and 
grows very common, especially in newland. <A tea, 
made of the leaves, is an excellent medicine in many 
complaints, and may be freely used to advantage. 
It is the best thing for bleeding at the stomach of 
any article I have ever found, either by giving a tea 
made of the dry leaves, or chewing them when green; ~ 
I have cured several with it. This complaint iscaus~ 
ed by canker eating off the small blood vessels, and * 
this medicine 1 ] remove the canker and stop the 
bleeding. Jt smade much use of the tea, made 
strong for i in jections, and found it in all complaintsof 
the bowels to be very serviceable. An injection 
made of this tea with a little No. 2, is good for the 
‘piles and many complaints, common to females; and 
in bearing down pains it will afford immediate relief» 
ai properly administered. These leaves may be 
‘used used in No. 3, to good advantage, as a substi- 
tute for either of the other articles, or alone for the 
same “tae Pes | 
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70 | NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 
RED RASPBERRY. _THE DEAVES: sf 


This’ is ‘an ex ellent ‘article, and T believe: was 
never made ‘i as medicine, till discovered by me. 
When at Eastport, Phad no article with me good for 

canker and resorted to my old fale of tasting, and 
_ found that these leaves were good for that complaint; 
made into a strong tea, it answered every purpose 
wished. I gathered a large quantity of leaves and 
dried them, and have been in constant use of it asa 
medicine ever since, and have found it an excellent 
article, both for canker and many other complaints; 
for relax and other bowel complaints of children, it 
is the best thing that I have found; by giving the tea 
and using it in the injections, it affords immediate 
relief, A tea made of the | leaves, sweetened, with 
milk init, is very pleasant, and may be used freely. 
Iti is the - thing for women in travail, of any 
‘article I know of. Give a strong tea of it, with a 
littl No. 2, sweetened, and it will regulate every 
thing as nature ie ures. If the-pains are untimely, 
> will make. all rit: if timely and lingering, give 
ore No. 2, and ‘Umbil in the tea. When the child 
of the tea with sugar and milk 
© init; “this prevent '§ sore mouth; and the tea is 
good to wash sore nipples with. A poultice made 
with this tea and eracker, or slippery elm bark, is 
very good for burr s or scalds; if the skin is off, by 
applying this poultice or washing with the tea, it 
will harden and stop smarting. ‘It may be used in 
No. 3, as a substitute for other articles, or alone, to 
“good effect. Rae 2 | ae, 


This i is knowit in the country k yt. 
weed, or meadayy eer it is 


. . oe 
"0 lial alae 
Pane wriais.d ee ; 
- Ate — e ~~. we 


> - eu es ae "= 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PuYysiciaN, 71 


oe ; | 
grows in wet land, by the sides of brooks; it has a 
stalk that grows fouror five feet high, which is rough 
and woolly. with a narrow leaf; and bears a blue 


blossom late in the fall, which De ea the frost 
kills it. The root lives through he winter and in 
the spring puts forth a new stalk; the leaves at. the 
bottom remain green through the winter. The roots 

and top are used for medicine: it has a fragrant taste ~ 
and smells like lovage. It is the first thing 4 ever 


ectly harmless and 
a. very good. bitter 


rit, and is good for 
iy alee 
- ‘ Bix ie Se 
No. 4.—BiTTERs, TO CORRECT THE BILE, AND | 
RESTORE DIGESTION. | 2 
BITTER HERB, on BALMONY. ) 


An } fie 9 2 
This herb grows in wet mowi Bead by the side 
of brooks; it is about the size of mint, leaves some 
larger; the stalk is four square; the leaves are of a 
_ dark green, of a sweetish bitter taste. It bears a — 
white blossom of singularform, resembling a snake’s 
head with the mouth open. This herb is very good 
- to correct the bile and create an appetite. *A tea of 
it may be used alone, or it may. be added to the other 
D ndex this number, which are all 
restore the digestive powers. 


72 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; — x 


POPLAR BARK. 


eral species of the poplar tree, that 
grow commo his country. One kind is called 
the white poplar and another stinking poplar; the 
bark of both these kinds are good for medicine; but 
the latter is the best, being the most bitter. It has 

~ tags hanging on the limbs, which remain on till its 
leaves are out, whichis about a week later than the 
other kind. It has short brittle twigs, which are 
extremely bitter to the taste. The inner bark given 
in tea, is one of the best articles to regulate the bile _ 
and restore the digestive powers, of any thing Ihave - 
ever used. The bark may be taken from the body 
of the tree, the linibs, or the roots, and the outside 
shaved off, and _preserve the inner bark, which 
should be dried and carefully preserved for use. To 
made bitters, (No. 4,) it should be pounded or ground 
fine, and mixed with the other articles, or it may be 
used alone for the same purpose. To make a tea, 
take a handful of the bark pounded or cut into small. 
strips and put into a quart mug, and fill it with boil- 
ing water, which, if taken freely will relievea soe, 
headache, faintness at the stomach, and many other 
complaints caused by bad digestion. It is good for 
obstructions of the urine, and weakness in the loins: 
and those of a consumptive habit will find great 
relief in using this tea freely. _ = 


Be 


BARBERRY—THE BARK. 


This isa well known shrub, producing red berries, 
of a pleasant sour taste, which are much used as a 
pickle, and are also preserved with sugar or molasses. 

_. The bark of the root or top is a good bitter and use- 

ful to correct the bile and assist the digestion. The — 
hark should be collected at the Proper season, care- 
Se . a 
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s a ea 
i ow 

OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 73 
fully dried and pounded or ground to fine powder; 
and is used as a part of the bitters, (No.4.) A tea, 
made of this bark is very good for all cases of indi- 
gestion, and may befreely used. os 
BITTER ROOT, on WANDERING MILK WEED. 


This valuable vegetable grows in meadows and in 
hedges, and in appearance is somewhat like buck- 
wheat, having similar white blossoms; when the~ 
stalk is broken it discharges a milky substance; it 
has two small pods about the size of the cabbage 
seed pods, with a silky substance. This ‘herb is 
wandering, that is, the roots run about under ground 
to a considerable distance, and produces many stalks 
which grow up from different parts of the root to 
the height of about two feet. The kind that iscom- 
monly known by the name-of wandering milk weed, 
grows only on upland; there is another kind which 
grows near rivers and on islands, where high water 
flows over it—this differs some from the other in ap- 
pearance; the roots run deep in the sand; it hag 
leaves and pods like the first, and both are good for 
medicine; the bark of the root is used. The roots 
should be dug and dried; and we perfectly dry 
may be pounded in a mortar, when the bark is easily 
separated from the woody part. This root is very 
bitter, and is one of the greatest correctors of the 
bile I know of; and is an excellent medicine to re- 
move costiveness, as it will cause the bowels to 

move ina natural manner. A strong decoction of 
this root, made b tec pia in hot water, if drank 
freely will operate as a cathartic, and sometimes ag 
an emetic; and is most sure to throw off a fever in its 
first stages. It should be used in all cases of costive- 
ness a di : 
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4 | NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; 


GOLDEN viele | or OHIO Ee eee ROOT. 

This tle ne only i in the. western. countrys 
Tam not well enough acquainted witi ihe herb to 
give a description of it; but of the mecical virtues 
of the root I have had a sufficient experience to re- 
“commend it as a very pleasant biter, and in cases 
where the food in the stomach of weak patients 
causes distress, a tea spoonful of the powder given 
in hot water sweetened, will give immediate. relief. 
It is an excellent corrector of the bie and may be 
used for that purpose alone, or witlitne bitter roots) 
or may be compounded with either or oe he articles 
described under this — to restore the diges- 
tive powers. ‘ aes 


= 


The purpose for which the articles described under 
this head are used, is to regulate the stomach, so 
that the food taken into it-may be-properly digested; 


‘and Thave mentioned enough to enabie those who 


makeuse of the practice to effect that object if pro- 
_perly attended to. This is a very important part of | 
the system of practice, for unless the food is digest- 
ed, it is impossible fg = up that heat upon which 
life sp ne 


ae 
No. 5.--SYRUP FOR THE DYSENTERY, TO STRENGTHEN 
THE STOMACH AND BOWELS, AND RESTORE. 
_ WEAK PATIENTS, ® 


- The nailed se in this = are thie bark 
of poplar and b apberty (which have been described,) 
peach-meats, or meats s of cherie -stones, eu and 
brandy. — ee . 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 718° 


PEACH MEATS. s 


The meats that are in the peach stones have long 
been used as medicine, and need little to be said about 
them, exceptthat they are of great value to strength- 
en.the stomach and bowels and restore the digestion; 
for which purpose I have made use of them, and. 
always to good advantage. Madeintocordial,with ~ 
other articles, in the. manner, as will be hereafter 
directed, forms one of the best remedies I know of, 
to recover the natural tone of the stomach after 
long sickness; and to restore weak patients, partic- 

—ularlyin dysentery. A tea made of the leaves of 
the peach tree is very good for complaints in chil- 
dren and young people, and will remove cholic. 


“CHERRY STONES. 


.- The meats of the wild cherry stones are very 

good and may be used instead of the peach meats, a 
when they cannotbe had. Get thesestones as clean 

as possible, when well dried, pound them in amor- |. 
tar, and separate the meats from the stones, which a 
is done with little trouble;- tae the same quantity 

as is directed of the peach meats, and it will answer 
equally as well. A tea made of the cherries pound- 

ed with the stones and steeped in hot water, sweet- 

ened with loaf sugar, to which, add a little brandy, 

is good to restore the digestive powers and create 

an appetite. 

Bitter almonds may be used asa substitute for the 

peach meats or cherry stones, when they cannot be 

had. a ws ~4 rn | 


a 
76 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTIE; 


No. 6,—RHEUMATIC DROPS, TO REMOVE PAIN, 


Tet ey 


_ PREVENT f MORTIFICATION, AND PROMOTE 
A NATURAL ‘HEAT, 


The principal articles used in this preparation, 
are high wines,. or fourth proof brandy, gum. myrrh 
and Cayenne; for external application, spirits of 
turpentine is added, and’sometimes gum camphor. 
The manner of preparing will be hereafter given. 


GUM MYRRH. 


> 


This is a gum obtained from a tree which grows _ 


in the East Indies, and is brought to this country and 
sold by the apothecaries for medical uses: there is 
nothing sold by them that possesses more useful 
and medical properties than this article; though the 
doctors seem to have but little knowledge of its vir- 
tues. Allthose whom I have heard express an opin- 
ion upon it, consider it of very little value. When 
I obtained my patent, Dr. Thornton, the clerk of the 
- Patent Office, said it was good for nothing; all this 
however does not lessen its value. The first know- 
ledge I had of it was when I was laid up with my 
lame ancle at Onion river, as has been before related 
inmy narrative. Anold man from Canada, passing 
that way and hearing of my case, called to see me, 
and observing the putrid state I was in, told my 


father that gum myrrh would be good for me, as it | 


was an excellent article to prevent mortification. 
He immediately obtained some-of the tincture, and 
not having a syringe he took some in his mouth and 
squirted it ca a quill into the wound; the smart- 
ing was severe for ashort time. By tasting it him- 
self and finding’ a pleasing bitter, he gave me 
some to take; by using it, there was a favorable al- 


a 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 17 


- 


teration, both in my bodily health and in the state 
of the wound. After this I had great faith in this 
article and was seldom without it. When I came 
to have a family I made much use of myrrh; it was 
one of the principal articles used in restoring my 
wife, when given over by the midwife, as related in 
my narrative. In several cases of. bad wounds and 
old sores, it afforded great relief; and in what the _ 
doctors call worm complaints in children, by giving 
the tincture when such symptoms appeared, it re- 
moved them. I used it at that time by making a 
tincture with spirit; but after having a knowledge 
~ of Cayenne, I put some of this with it, whichmade 

it much better. I found out by accident that boiling 

it would prevent the fumes of the spirit from rising 

to the head, which would otherwise, in some cases, 
produce bad effects, particularly in such as were 
subject to hysterical affection. This was the origin 

of my rheumatic drops, a preparation which has 
proved more generally useful than any compound I 
make use of. In selecting myrrh for use, take that 
of a light brown color, somewhat transparent, and. 
of a bitter taste, a little pungent. It should be re- — 
duced to a fine powder, by being pounded in a mor- 
‘tar, before used. = 


e 


SPIRIT OF TURPENTINE. 


This article is too well known to need any descrip- 
tion, being used by painters. The only way in 
which I use it is in such preparations as are intend- _ 
ed for external application, in which I have found it © 
useful. A .proportion of it should be added to the 
rheumatic drops, when used for itch or other bad 
- humors. It is a powerful _artighe, and should be 
used with caution.  « a 
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NEW GUIDE TO WEALTH; 

I shall say but little about this article, as I never: 
found any great advantages from its use, though I 
never knew it todo any harm. Itis made much use: 
of, and I think there is more credit given to it than 
it deserves. I have been-in the habit of add- 
ing some of it to the rheumatic drops, when used for | 
_ bad sprains, and in such eases have found it useful; | 
and have no doubt but that it may-be sometimes | 
‘€ nto advantage, to warm the stomach and re- 
~ eve pain; but there are other articles which I make. 

peer for that purpose, that are much better. 


@ 


hy, GUM CAMPHOR 


NERVE POWDER. 
AMERICAN VALERIAN, OR LADIES’ SLIPPER; SOME- 
TIMES CALLED UMBIL, OR MALE AND FEMALE 
| NERVINE. x 
There are four species of this valuable vegetable, , 
one male and three female; the male is called yellow ' 
-umbil, and grows in swamps and wet land; has a. 
large cluster of fibrous roots matted together, joined. 
to a solid root, which puts forth several stalks that: 
grow about two feet high; it has leaves somewhat: 
resembling the poke leaf. The female kinds are: 
distinguished by the color of the blossoms, which 
are red, red and white, and white. The red has: 
- but two leaves, which grow out of the ground and. 
lean over to the right and left, between whichasin-. 
gle stalk shoots up to the height of from eight to ten | 
- inches, bearing on its top, a red blossom of a very ' 
singular form, that gives it the name of female ur 
bil. This kind is found on high ledges and in) 
swamps. The red and white, and white umbil,, 
grows only in swamps, and is in larger clusters of 
oo a. oes 


wit as? 

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2 2 Se iy 

OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 79 
roots than the yellow, but in a similar form; its top 
is similar tothe red, except the color of the blossom. 
The yellow and red are the best for medicine; the 
roots should be dug in the fall when done growing, 
or in the spring before the top puts forth. If dug 
when growing, the roots will nearly all dry up. 
When the rootsare dug, they should be washed clean, 
carefully dried, andspounded or ground to a fine 
powder, sifted through a fine sieve, and preserved 
from the air for use. tas 

This powder is the best nervine known:—I 


made great useof it, and have always found it to 


produce the most beneficial effects, in all cases of 
nervous affection, and in hysterical symptoms; in 
fact it would be difficult to get along with my prac- 
‘tice in many cases without this important article. 
It is perfectly harmless and may be used in all cases 
of diseasqayyith safety; and is much better than 
opium, which is generally given in cases of spas- 


modic affection, and which only deadens the feelings ~ 


and relieves pain only by destroying sensibility, 
“without doing any good. It has been supposed by 
the doctors to be of a narcotic nature; but thisis a 
mistake. They have drawn this conclusion, I sup- 
pose, from its tendency to promote sleep; but this is’ 
altogether owing to its quieting the nerves and leay- 
ing the patient at ease, when nature requirés sleep 
to recover the natural tone of the system. Half a 
tea spoonful may be given in hot water, sweetened, 
and the dose repeated if necessary; or the same 


quantity may be mixed with a dose of either the . 
other numbers, when given, and put into the injec- _ 


_ tions; and where there is nervous symptoms it should 
_ never be dispensed with, es ¢ 
_ Thave thus far given a description of all the im- 
portant vegetables made use of in my system of prac- 
" on 7 ide ae x ee 
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tice, withthe manner of preparing and using them. 


ease in its first stages. 


= SprarmMint.—This is a well known herb, and 
_ makesa very pleasant tea, which may be freely used 


‘ses, is to stop vomiting. If the Emetic Herb, or 


given in warm water, or on loaf sugar, is good for 


80 | NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; 


I shall now proceed to describe a number of articles 
of less. | importance, all of which I have used andi 
found good in various complaints. Some of them 
forma part of my medical preparations, and many; 
others may be used as substitutes for some that have: 
been mentioned. They are allof a warming nature 
and may be used to advantage in throwing off dis- 


insickness. The most valuable property it posses- 


any other cause should produce violent vomiting, b 
giving astrong tea, made of this herb, it will stop it 
and sit pleasantly-on the stomach. 


PEPPERMINT.—This article is very hot in its na- 
ture, and may be used to advantage to promote per- 
spiration and overpowe the cold. I have frequent- 
ly used it for that purpose with success; but it is 
volatile and will not retain the heat long in the 
stomach. In colds and slight attacks of disease, tad 
drink freely of a tea, made of this herb, on going te 
bed, will throw it off. ‘The essence put in warm 
water, is good to give children, and will relieve pair 
in the stomach and bowels. A few drops of the oil 


the same purpose. 


PENNEROYAL.—This herb grows common in all 
parts of the country, and is too well known to needs 
any description. It is an article of great value im 
medicine, and a oa of it may be freely sed i all 


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OR, BOTANIC PAMILY PHYSICIAN, 61 


moe = : s ri pies ays 

@uce perspiration and remove obstructions. In 
colds and slight attacks of disease it will be likely to 
throw it off, and prevent sickness. It is very good 
for children; and will remove pain in the bowels and 
wind. In going through a course of medicine, a 
tea of this herb may be given for drink, and will 
cause the medicine tohave a pleasant Operation, 


Summur-savory.—This herb grows in. gardens, 


and is made use of to season meats 98) cooking; it 


is of a very pleasant flavor, and of a hot nature, A 


tea of it is good for colas and may be used freely in 
case of sickness. There is an oil made from this 
herb, which will cure the tooth-ache, by putting a 
en cotton wool and applying it to the affected 
toot e : 1 


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~Hoarnounyv.—This plant grows common an this 
country, and is made much account of in removing 
cough. Aninfusion made of the leaves, sweetened 
with honey, Is good for the asthma, and all com- 
plaints of the lungs. The syrup of this plant will 
loosen tough phlegm and remove hoarseness caused 
by acold. The hoarhound éandy is very useful for 
such as are troubled with cough, particularly old 
people, and those that are short winded, 


J ge J " d 
Evecampanr.—The. root of this plant made into 
syrup, is good fora Cough; and I have made use of 


" “WEED, —- A tea made of this herb, to bed rang 

Hen golng tu bed, is very good for a cold; and 

6 ght attacks of the fever, if used freely and 9 hes 
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82 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


stone put to the,feet, will, in most cases, throw it! 
oft. Migros  COmUNON 72 old fields, and by the 
sides of roads. _ S ae 


- Wormwoop.—This herb is a very wholesom 
bitter, and may be taken to ad in di 
ways. It is of a hot nature, © ( 
stomach, to create an appetite, and assist the diges- 
tion. It may be taken in tea, or the green herb may; 
be pounded and tincturedin spirit, which is good to 
apply to a bruise or sprain. 


'Tanzy.—This is a hot bitter herb, grows commor 
in highways, and is cultivated in gardens. A tee 
made of this herb is good for hysterics and other 
female complaints; it will strengthen those th 
have weak reins and kidneys, and is good for the 
strangury, or stoppage of urine. The green leave: 
pounded, are good to put on bruises and sprains: 


and will allay the swelling. 


Cuamomite.—This is 2 well known herb, tho 
flowers are sold by the apothecaries and are mad 
much use of in a tea for many complaints: it 18 ZOO) 
given in a tea for bowel complaints, and external! 
applied, will relieve rains, bruises and swellings 
and remove callouses, corns, &c. and restore shru 
_ sinews, - ; - 


_ Brrren-sweer.—This herb has long been esteerr 
ed as a medicine of considerable value for man 
complaints... It grews common ‘in this country, | 
hedges where the ground is moist, and the top run 
along the ground or climbs on bushes. Its tast 
when chewed, is first bitter, and then sweet, whie 
has given its name. It is said to be a good med 
eine for internal injuries and to remove obstructia 
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which I have no doubt is correct; but the only way 
I make use of it, is for external application; the 
bark of the root with chamomile and wormwood 
makes an ointment of great value, which is an ex- 
cellent thing for a bruise, sprain, callous, swelling, 
or for corns. | 

Muuien.—The leaves of this plant are very good 
to bring down swelling and to restore contracted 
Sinews, by pounding them and applying them warm 
to the part affected. For external use, they are an 
excellent article in many complaints. This herb is 
too well known to need any description. It is an 
impor‘ant article in my strengthening plaster. 


Burpock.—The leaves of this plant wilted by 
the fire and applied to an external injury, will allay 
the inflammation and ease pain; and they are good 
pounded and put on a bruise or sprain, as it will 
give immediate relief. It is made use of in the 
strengthening plaster. = 


SKUNK-CABBAGE.—This vegetable grows common 
in all parts of New-England; it has large leaves 
something resembling cabbage, from which, and its 
disagreeable smell, it takes its name; it may be 
found in the meadows and wet land. The root only 
is used for medicine, which should be dug and split 
into strips and carefully dried; when dry, it should 
be pounded or ground to a powder. This powder 
may be taken in tea sweetened, or made into a syrup, 
or a tea spoonful may be mixed in honey and taken 
in the morning, or at night when going tobed. Itis 
good for asthma, cough, difficulty of breathing, and 
all disorders of the lungs, and, with other articles, 
makes one of the best preparations for those cora- 
plaints [have Rees 7 


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WakE-ROBIN.—This plant grows wild in this 
eountry. It has three triangular leaves, from be- 
tween them it puts forth a raked stalk, on the top. 
of which 1s a sinpular stem or pisul enclosed ina 
sheath, resembling a-flower, whichis followed bya 
bunch of redish berries. The root is used for med- 
icine, and rescmbles a. sna! turnip. "bis rootis 
extremely pungent and stimulating, and is often given 
fer cholic and and pain in the bowels, and to expel 
wind. Ihave mostly made use of it for cough and 
disorders of the lungs, for which I have found it a. 
very useful article, and it forms part of my com- 
position for coughs. The root should be dried and 
reduced to a powder, and may be given mixed with 
honey, orin a syrup. . 


THoRoveHWoR?T.—This herb is well known in the 
country, and is made use of by the people in tea 
for mapy complaints, It is of a warming nature, 
and is good for cough and other complaints of the 
lungs. It is used in my compound prepared for 
conghs. fe ee | 


FERATHERFEW.—This herb is stimulating, and is 
good for hysteric complaints, and many other dis- 
orders common to females. It promotes the pas- 
sage of urine and removes obstructions in those 
parts. It should be taken in tea aloné, or may be 
added with chamomile, and used to advantage in all 
eases of obstructions, — oot 


Curvers.—This tsa sort of joint grass and grows 
in mowing land, where the ground is wet; it hag 
small leaves at each joint; the stalk is four square 
and the edges are rough like a sickle, This herb 
made into a strong tea end drank freely, is verg 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 83 


good for the stoppage of urine, and may be made 
use of for ail obstructions in those parts to advan- 
tage. #2 
Buacs- emcu yh ees tea made of this bark is 
useful in curing all @omplaints of the bowels and to 
remove. obsiractions. «. I have made use of itin the 
dysentery... This ten with peach-meats or cherry- 
&tone-meats, made iato a syrup, isan excellent are 
licle to restore patients after having been reduced by 
that disease, and to promote the digestion. It 
is good-for canker and all complaints of the bowels. 


eRe 


Ev «an Roori—Thisis called by some people cho- 
edlate roor, on account of its resembling that article 
HF taste, Andis made use of by some for a common 
Grink instend cf tea orcoffee. Tris cood for eanker 
end may’ be usedin No. 3° asa substitute for other 
articles. ft grows common in this country and ig 
too well known to need describing, 


| Streveny piv BARK .—The inner bark of this tree 
is an.article of much value, and may be used to ad- 
vantage in many different ways. There are several 
species of the elm that grow common in this coun- 
try; end there are two kinds of the slippery elm; 
one, the bark is rather hard and tough, and the other 
is very brittle; the latter is the best for medical 
uses. The bark should be peeled, the outside ross 
shaved off, dried, and ground 6r pounded to a fine 
powder. If used internally, put a tea spoonful of 
this powder into a tea cup with as much sugar, mix 
them well together, then add a little cold water to it 
and stir it till it forms a jelly thick enough to be 
_@aten with a spoon. A tea spoonful may be taken 
ta time, and is an excellent inedicine to heal sore- 
ess in the throat, stomach and bowels, caused by 


86 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


canker: or more hot water maybe put to it and: 
made into a drink, and freely taken for the same 
purpose. Ihave made much use of this bark for 
poultices, and have in all cases found it a most eX- 
cellent article for that purpose. Mixed with pound- 
ed cracker and ginger, it makes the best poultice I 
have ever found; for burns, scalds, felons, old sores, 
&c. itis the best thing I have met with, to allay the 
inflammation, ease the pain, and heal them ina short 
time. | 


' Batsam FiR.—This balsam is obtained from a tre¢ 

well known in many parts of this country; itis taken 

from small blisters which form in the bark. It is 

of a very healing nature, and is good to remove in- 

ternal soreness. It forms an important article in 

my healing salve. When taken it may be dropped 
_on loaf sugar. 


Ginsene.—This root grows wild 1a this country; 
and is found plentifully in Vermont. It was for- 
merly collected for exportation, and large quantities 
of it were sent to China, where it brought a great 
price. Itis said the people of that country consider: 
it of great value; but for what purpose they use it, 
is, 1 believe, only known to themselves. Kt isa 
nervine, and may be used to advantage in all cases 
of nervous affection, either alone or mixed with 
other articles. The root should be dug in the fall, 
dried and reduced to a fine powder; from half to a 
tea spuonful may. be given for a dose, in hot water 
sweetened. ova 


SnakeRoot.—This is a well known article, grows 
wild and may be found in most.parts of this country. 
it is of a hot nature, and is made much use of in 
tea for measles and other eruptions, to keep the 

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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 87 


disorder out, for which it is considered very good; 
this is owing to its warming qualities, which keep 
the determining powers at the surface; which effect 
‘may be produced by almost any strong stimulant; 
but No. 2, or the composition powders, is much the 
best for that purpose. A tea made of this root may 
be given to advantage in many cases of disease; it 
has a tendency to promote perspiration, and is good 
to remove pain in the stomach and bowels, and ex- 
pel wind. The roots reduced to powder may be 
mixed with ginseng or umbil for all nervous com- 
plaints. 


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Musrarp.—The seed of this herb is principally 
made use of for culinary purposes, being eaten on 
meat; for which it is ground to a fine powder and 
mixed with warm water. It is very pungent and of 
a hot nature; but is volatile and will not hold the 
heat long enough to create an appetite and assist — 
the digestion; and given in hot water sweetened, 
will remove pain in the bowels and stomach. It is 
frequently used for rheumatism, both internally and 
externally; but Nos. 2 and 6, are much. better for 
that purpose. 


Batm oF eitEap.—This tree is of the species of 
the poplar and possesses some medical virtues. It 
resembles the kind of poplar that has been describ- 
ed, having similar tags; but the buds and leaves are 
larger. The buds bruised and tinctured in spirit, 
produce an effect something like the tincture of 
myrrh; and are good taken inwardly as arestorative, 
and for bathing sores. The bark scraped from the 
twigs and steeped in hot water, is a good corrector 

'. of the bile, and will-operate both as an emetic and 
© cathartic: it is more harsh than the other kind of 


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88 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


poplar, but may be used to advantage in many cases 
of disease. ee ee a es 


Burrernut.—This tree grows common in this 
country, and is well known from the nut which it: 
bears, of an oblong shape, and nearly as large as an 
egg, in which is a meat containing much oil, and 
very good'to eat. The bark of this tree is used by 
the country people to color with. The bark taken 
from the body of the tree or roots and boiled down 
till thick, may be made into pills, and operates as a 
powerful emetic and cathartic; asyrup may be made 
by boiling the bark and adding. one third molasses 
and alittle spirit, which is good to give children for 
worm complaints, The buds and twigs may also be 
used for the same purpose, and are more mild. 
_ White ash bark and balm of gilead may be added; 
equal parts, and made into syrup or pills. .'Fhose 
who are fond of drastic purges, may have their ends 
‘sufficiently answered by these preparations, and 
they are most safe and. harmless of any that I know 
of; and those who wish to be-tortured with blisters . 
can have them cheap, by bruising the green shell of 
the nut, or the bark, and applying it where the blis- 
teris waited, keeping the bandage wet, end in three 
hours they will be completely drawn, and the skin 
as black as that of an African. This is much quick- 
er and safer than if done with flies, and will not 
cause strangury. The bark of the butternut is the 
principal ingredient in Dr. Hawkes’ rheumatic and 
cancer pills, and also of Chamberlain’s bilious cor- 
dial, which have been so celebrated for many com- 
plaints. It is called by some people, oil nut and le- 


mon walnut. = 


| BLUE AND WHITE VERVINE.—This is a well known | 
herb, growing very common; it ranks next to the. 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 89 

~ ’ 
Emetic herb, for a puke; and may be used for that 
purpose either alone or combined with thorough- 
wort. It is good to prevent a fever in its first stages. 


This herb has been used with considerable success _ 


in consumption, having cured several cases where 
the doctors had given them over. [t may be used in 
a tea made of the dry herb, or prepared in powder 
like the Emetic herb. _ - ; oa 


PipsiswaY, OR RHEUMATIC WEED.—This herb grows 
on mountainous land, and on pine plains, where the 
boxberry or checkerberry i is found plenty. It is an 
evergreen, and grows from three to six inches high, 
has a numberof dark green leaves, about half an 
inch wide and from one to two ehe s long, with a 
scalloped edge; bears several brown seeds resem- 
‘bling allspice ev, Tne tops and roots are used for 
medicine.. The roots when chewed are very pun- 
gent, which will be felt for several hours on the 
tongue, as though burnt. A strong tea made of this 
plant is good for cancers and all scrofulous humors, 
by drinking the tea and bathing with it the parts 
affected. 

Another evergreen plant, called wild lettuce, 
grows on the same kin@of land, which possesses 
much the same medical properties as the above. 
It has round leaves, from the size of a cent to that 
of a dollar, resembling the common lettuce. The 
roots of this plant and of the pivsisway,dried and 
powdered together, equal parts, are good to cure all 
bad humors. Take a tea spoonful of the powder in 
a glass of hot water, and bathe the parts affected 
with the same; it is also good to restore weak 
nerves. 3 


GouprNnrop.—This herb may be found common 
op pine plains and in hedges; it grows about two or 


4; 


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90 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; 


three feet high, has along narrow leaf, very smooth. 
and glossy, and a large cluster of yellow blossoms; 
it has a Sweet spicy taste and smell, resembling fen- 
nel, or annise. There is an oil obtained from this 
herb, good for medicine; and also prepared in es- 
sence, is good for pain in the head, to be taken, or 
the outside bathed with it. The oil is good to scent 
the bayberry and bitter-root snuff, which is very 
good to be taken and snuffed up the nose. There 
are several herbs that resemble this in appearance, 
but are very different in smell and taste. 


Mrapow FERN.—This is a shrub and grows in 
meadows and bythe side of stagnant water; it is. 
found in thick bunches, and grows from two to 
three feet high. When the leaves are off it has a: 
large bud, which is larger on some bushes than. 
others; some of them bear a small bur or cluster of! 
seeds, which when rubbed between the fingers leaves} 
an oily or balsamy substance, having a [fragrant 
smell, something like spirits of turpentine. _ ; 

These burs pounded fine and simmered in cream, 
hogs’ lard, or fresh butter, are almost a sovereign: 
remedy for itch, or external poison, and all bad hu-. 
morsores. When the burs cannot be had, take the: 
bush and buds and make a strong decoction; drink: 
of this and wash with the same. This liquor may’ 
be prepared in syrup, and by hoiling it down may be! 
made into ointment as has been described for the: 
burs; the syrup should be taken and the ointment: 
put onthe affected parts, This ointment or the: 
wash, 1s good for salt-rheum, or canker sores, and| 


‘may be used freely. 


YELLow pocK.—The root of this plant is well | 
known, as being made into ointment for the itch.. 
The roots site: oe bruised fine in a mortar and put: 


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: 2 ae 

in a pewter basin, add cream enough to make an 
ointment, keep it warm for twelve hours, be careful 
not to scaldit. Rub it on at night when going to 
bed. Three times usingit will generally effect a 
cure. The foregoing described ointments, together 
with No. 3, and the rheumatic drops prepared with 
the spirits of turpentine, will be sufficient to cure 
any case of this complaint. 


PrickLy AsH.—This is a shrub or bush that grows 
in the western country, and is well known by the 
people there. It grows from eight to twelve feet 
high, and bears a berry that grows close to the limbs; 
it has leaves like the white ash. The bark and ber- 
ries are used for medica} purposes. The berries 
are very pungent, and are a powerful stimulant, as 
also the bark of the top and roots, though not so 
strong. It should be pounded to a powder and 
steeped in hot water, then put into wine or spirit 
and it makes avery good hot bitter. Take nalfa 
glass two or three times a day; itis good for fever- 
and-ague, for which it is much used; and for lethar- 
gy or sleepiness, and for cold feet and hands, and 
other complaints causediby cold. 


_ Britrer raistte.—This herb is a species of the 
thistle, and is cultivated im gardens. It is of one 
years growth, the seed being sown in the spring and 
it comes to maturity in the fall. The stalk has a 
number of branches and a great quantity of leaves. 
The leaf is some larger than the Canada thistle, 
with prickles like it; and it bears seeds about the 
size of the barley-corn, with a beard on the end 
nearly as long asthe seed. The leaves are used for 
medicine, which may bé steeped in hot water and 
drank like other herb tea, or they may be reduced to 


a powder and taken in molasses or warm water, or 


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in wine or spirit. It iS an excellent corrector ¢ 


‘the bile, and may be safely used for that purpose: 


The Cardis Benedictus, or beloved thistle, is culti- 


- Yated am the same manner and may be sed for the 


same purpose. : ra 


ARCHANGEL.—Tiis herb grows wild in wet land, 
and may be often found among the grass, and at the 
edges of ploughed fields. Tr grows from four’ tc 
twelve inches high; the leaves are rather smaller 


than mint leaves; it bears a kind of bur, containing 
seed, which grows round the stalk at each joint. 
There are two kinds growing near each other; they 
Jook very much alike, but are very different in taste, 
One is very bitter and the other has no bitter taste, 
but is very rough and of a balsamic taste. They: 
may be used together in a tea or syrup, and answer 
two important parposes; the rough removes the can-. 
ker and the bitter is a corrector of the bile. By; 


acding No. 2, the compound contains. the three: 
great principles of the healing art, viz: hot, rough, 


and bitier. ; 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 93 


; ow 
Se DIRECTIONS © coo 
‘ WOR PREPARING AND USING 


VEGETABLE MEDICINE. 


5 


~or QOOaer ‘ 
No. 1.—Emertic Hers. 


The preparation of this herb hag been sufficient- 
ly described, for which see page 45. It is prepared 
and used in three different ways, viz: 

1. The powdered teaves and pods. This is the 
common form of using it; and from half to a tea 
spoonful may be taken in warm water sweetened; 
orthe same quantity may be put into either of the 
other numbers when taken; to cleanse the stomach, 
joverpower the cold and promote a free perspiration, 

2. A tincture made from the green herb in Spirit. 
This is used to counteract the effects of poison; to 
be either internally or ext Enally used: and for asth: 
ma and other complaints ihc lungs. For a dose 
take a tea spoonful, adding about the same quantity 
of No. in half a tea cuptul of warm water sweet 

aed, and in all cases of nervous affection add half a 
tea spoonful cf nerve powder. For the exter 
effects of poison, take the above dose, and bathe the 
parts affected with the tincture, repeating it till 
cured. 


| 


with Nos. 2, and6.. This is for the most violent at- 
tacks, of spasms and other complaints, such as lock- 
jaw, bite of mad dog, fits, drowned persons, and al} 
cases of suspended animation, where the vital epark 
ig nearly extinct. For u dose give a 16a spoonful, 


_ 3. The seeds reduced to a fine powder and mixed | 


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and repeat it till relief is obtained: then follow wit) 

_atea of No, 3, forcanker, 

‘ ~ For children the dose must be regulated accordin’ 

_» to their age. If very young, steep a dose of th 

_ powder in half a tea cupful of water, or tea of rasp 

berry leaves,’and give a tea spoonful ata time of th 

tea, strained through a fine cloth and sweetenec 

repeating the dose every ten minntes, till it operates 

and give pennyroyal, or some other herb tea fo 
drink. 


aes No. 2.—CaAvenNne. 


This is a medicine of great value in the practice 

and may be safely used in all cases of disease, t 

raise and retain the vital heat of the system, caus 

: a free perspiration, and keep the determining power 

: to the surface. The only preparation is to have 1 

reduced to a fine powder. For a dose take fror 

half to a tea spoonful, in hot water ora tea of Nc 

3, sweetened; or the same quantity may be mixe: 

with a dose of either the cther numbers when taker 

The dose should be repeated every ten or fiftee: 

minutes till the desired object is effected, and cor 

tinued occasionally till health is restored. Whe: 

, this number is given, the patient should be ker 

warm, by sitting wear the fire, covered with a dlan 
ket, or ina warm bed. 


eta 


No. 3.—For Canker. 
: Take bayberry root bark, white pond lily root, an 
the inner bark of the hemlock, equal parts of eack 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 95 
pounded and well mixed together; steep one ounce 
of the powder in a pint of boiling water, and give 
for a dose acommon wine glass full sweetened. _ 

If the above cannot be had, take as a substitute __ 
sumach bark, leaves or berries, red raspberry or 
witch-hazle leaves, marsh rosemary, or either of — 
the other articles described under the head of No. 
3; they are all good for canker, and may bé used 
together or separate. - 

When the violence of the disease requires a course 

ofmedicine, steep one ounce of the above men- 
tioned powder, No. 3, in a pint of boiling water, 
strain off a wine glass full while hot, and add a tea_ 
spoonfu! of No. 2, and the same quantity. of sugar; 
when cool enough to take, add a tea spoonful of No. 
1, and half that quantity of nerve powder. Let this 
dose be given three times, at intervals of fifteen 
minutes; and let the same compound be given by 
injection, and if the case requires it, again repeated. 
If mortification is apprehended a tea spoonful of 
No. 6, may be added to each dose’and to the injec- 
tions. 

After the patients have recovered sufficiently from 
the operation of the medicine, which is usually in 
two or three hours, pla@ée them over the steam, as is 
directed in page 23. : 

This operation is sufficient for one time, and must : 
be repeated each day, orevery otherday, asthe cir- _ 
cumstances of the case may require, tillthe disorder —~ 
is removed. Three times will generally be sufficient, 
and sometimes once or twice will answer the pur- 
pose; but in bad chronic cases it may be necessary 
to continue to carry them through a regular course 
two or three times. a week, fora considerable length 
of time. . 

Great care must be taken to keep up an internal 
heat, so as to produce perspiration, after they have 


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56 NEW GUIDE To HEALTH ; 


been through the operation, by giving occasionally 
No. 2, or the compasition powder; for if this is not 


attended to, the patient may have a relapse, in which 
case it will be very difficult to raise it again, as they 


will fall as much below a natural heat as they have 
been raised above it by artificial means. ~ ee 
During the operation give milk porridge, or gruel 
well seasoned, witha little cayenne init; and after 
it iszover, they. may eat any kind of nourishing food: 
that the appetite may crave. i 
A tea cupful of the-tea of No. 8, should be taken 
night and mornipg to -prevent.a relapse of the dis- 
ease, and during the day drink frequently of a tea 
made of poplar bark; and if costive use the bitter 
root. RA geet Bn Bede Br te Mage ng 
As soon ay the disorder is: removed, use the bitters, 
(No. 4,) to correct the bile and restorethe diges- 
tion; and halfa wine glass full of the svrup, (No. 5,) 
may be taken two orthree times a day, which will 
strengthen the stomach and assist in regulating the 
digestive powers, . 
The foregoing directions are calculated for the 
more violent attacks of disease, and such as have” 
become settled; but thoce @f a Jess violent nature 
must be treated according to circumstances. In- 
the first stages of a disease it may be most generally _ 
thrown off by a dose of the Emetic herb, with No. 
2 to. raise a free perspiration, followed bya tea of 
No. 38 to remove the canker,-and the bitters, ora 
tea of poplar bark, to regulate the digestion. For 
a sudden cold, take a dose of the composition pow- 
der on going to bed, and put_a hot stone, “wrapped 
in wet cloths, at the feet, which will, in most cases, 
remove the complaint; but if these applications do 
not answer the purpose, ‘the patient should . be 
earried through a regular courge as soon as possible. 
Steaming is safe and will always do good, and the 


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injections must not be neglected, particularly where 
the bowels are disordered. In consumption and all 
old lingering complaints, give the composition pow- 
der for two or three days before going through a reg- 
ular course. ae 


No. 4.—Birrers. 


Take the bitter herb, or balmony, barberry and 
- poplar bark, equal parts, pulverized, one ounce of 
the powder to a pint of hot water, and half a-pint— 
of spirit. For a dose take halfa wine glass full. 
For hot bitters add a tea spoonful of No. 9. 

This preparation is calculated to correct the bile 
and create an appetite by restoring the digestive 
powers; and may be freely used, both as a restora-_. 
tive and to prevent disease. 

When the abpve articles cannot be had, either of 
those that have been before described under No. 4, | 
which are all good for ae same purpose, may be 
used as a substitute. 2 


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No. 5.—Syrup. 


Take poplar bark and bark of the root of hayberry, 
one pound each, and boil them in two gallons of wa- 
ter, strain off and add seven pounds of good sugar; 

then scald and skim it, and add half a pound of 
peach meats; or the same quantity of cherry stone 
-Ineats pounded fine. When cool, add a gallon of: 
good grandy; and keep it in bottles for use. Take 
half a wine glass full two or three times a day. 
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» Any other quantity may be prepared by observing} 


is 


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fered 


the same proportion of the different articles 

This syrup is very good to strengthen the stomach) 
and bowels, and to restore weak patients, and 18! 
particularly useful in the dysentery, which leaves: 
the stomach and bowelsina sorestate. Ina relax: 
or the first stages of dysentery, by using a tea of: 
No. 8, freely, and giving this syrup, it will general-. 
ly cure it, and will also prevgga those exposed from) 
taking the disease. 


No. 6.—Ruxumatic Drops, F 
Take one gallon of good fourth proof brandy, er 


any kind of high wines, one pound of gum Myrrh 
pounded fine, one ounce of No. 2, and put them inte 


a stone jug and boil it a few minutes in a kettle ot 


water, leaving the jug unstopped. |. When settled! 
bottle it up for use. It may be prepared without 
boiling by letting it stand in the jug for five or Six 
days, shaking it well eveify day, when it will be fit 
for use. 

“These drops are to remove pain, and prevent mor! 
tification, to be taken, or applied externally, or (o be 
put into the injections. . One or two tea spoonsful o 
these drops may be givenalone, or the same quantity 
may be put into a dose of either of the medicineg 
nefore mentioned; and may be also used to bathe 
with in all cases of external s vellings erpains. IJ 
is an excellent remedy for rheumatism, by taking : 
dose and bathing the part affected with it. In the 
head-ache by taking a swallow, and bathing thi 
head, snuffing alittle up the nose, it will remove th 
pain. Itis good for bruises, sprains, swelled joints 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, we 99 


. und old sores; as it will allay the penatation® bring 
‘down the swelling, ease pain and produce a tenden- 
cy to heal,—in fact there is hardly a complaint in 
which this useful medicine cannot be used to advan- 
tage. Itisthe best preservative against mortifica- 
tion, of any thing I ee. found. 

For bathing, in rheumatism, itch, orother humors, 
or in any swelling or external pain, add one quarter 
part of spirits oa e tine, and for sprains and 
bruises, a little gum camphor may be added, 

te a 


Be 


Nerve Powber. + 


." 
This is the American Valerian, or Uimbil and the 
preparation has been sufficiently described, (sce 
page 78.) This powder is a valuable and safe medi- 
cine and may be usedin all cases without da wer; P 
and when there are‘nervous symptoms, it must never Lod 
he dispensed with. For a dose take half a tea spoon- 
ful in hot water, pucgpnce: or the same quantity Z 
should be put into a dose of either of -the other med- x 
icines, and also into the injections in al] nervoug 
» cases. r 


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ComposiTIon, or Vecerasie Powprr. 

< . i | 7 - 
~.  Taketwo pounds of the Bayberry root bark, one 

i pound of the inner bark of Hemlock, one pound of 
Ginger, twoounces of Cayenne,two ouncesof Clove, _ 
. al] pounded-fine, sifted through a five seive, and wel] | 
_anixed together. For a dose take a tea spoonful of 
— thisspowder, with an equal quantity of sugar, and 

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106 KEW GUIDE TO HEALTH: ; 


put to it- half atea agen of oiling water; to be 
taken as soon as sufficiently cool, the patient being 
in bed, or by the fire, covered with a blanket. - 
This composition is calculated for the first stages 
and in less violent attacks of disease. It is a medi- 
cine of much value, a be safely used in all 
complaints of male or female and for children. It 
is good for relax, dysentery, pain in the stomach and 
bowels, and to remove all obstructions caused by | 
cold, or loss of inward heat; by taking a dose on 
going to bed and putting a hot stone to ‘the feet, 
oe * wrapped in wet cloths, it will cure a bad cold, and 
will generally throw off a disease in its stages if re- 
| peated two or three times. If the symptoms are @} 
~ violent, with much pain, add to each dose a tea 
p spoonful of No. 6, and half a tea spoonful of No. 1; 
and in nervous symptoms add half a tea spoonful of 
nerve powder; at the same time give an injection of 
the same. If these should not answer the purpose, ~ 
7 the patient must he carried through a regular course 
ef the medicine, as has been before described. 


as 


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Covcu PowveERs.- 


* 
Take four tea spoofisful of Skunk Cabbage, two 
of Hoar-hound, one of Wake-robin, one of No. l, 
one of No. -2, one of Bayberry” ark, one of Bitter . 
~. yoot? and ne of Nerve: powder, all madé fine and 
well mixed together. When taken, to be mixed 
with molasses. Take half a tea spoonful of the» 
powder on going to bed; keep warm and continue 
: taking it till relief 1 is obtained, os, on going © 
; bed. 
=. thoes the cough has been of long weber: 
2 at be best, while it a prescription, to 
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through ; a ee laa and repeat 
atif necessary. 


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~~ * ‘Cancer Praster, 


Take the fieads of ee. and fill Z brass ket- 
tle, and boil them in water for one hour; then take 
them out and fill the kettle again wit “fresh ones 
and boil them as before in the same liquor. Strain 
it off and press the heads to get out all the juice, 


then simmer it over a slow fire till it is about the © 


consistence of tar, when it will be fit for use. Be 
careful not to let it burn. When used it should be 
spread on a piece of bladder, split and made soft. 
It is good to cure cancers, sore lips and old sores. 


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ees 


SaLve. 


‘Take one pound of Beeswax, one do. of salt But-_ 


ter, one anda half do. of Turpentine, twelve ounces 
of Balsam fir; melt and simmer them together; then 
strain it off into a basin, and keep it for use. It 
may be used to heal fresh wounds, burns, scalds and 
all bad sores, after the inflammation 1s allay oie and 
wound eleansed: 


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"Take Busdock leaves and Mullen leaves, bruise 


_ the ok and ow them in a kettle, with be igh : 


2 : ' .. 3 
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quantity of water, and boil them well; -then strain 
off the liquor, press or squeeze the leaves and boil 
it down till about half as thick as molasses; then 
add three parts. of Rosin and one of Turpentine, 
and simmer well together, until the water is evapor- 
ated; then pour it off into cold water and work it 
with the hands like shoemaker’s wax; if two hard 
put in more turpentine, when it will be fit for use. 
{t should be: spread on soft leather and applied to 
the part affected; and it is good to (es weak- 
ness in the back and other p parts of the 

F5w; aa 


VOLATILE Sats. 


Take crude Sal Amoniac one ounce, Pearlash two 
ounces, and pound each by itself, mix them well to- 


gether, and keep them well stopped ina bottle for 


use, By damping it with spirit or essence will in- 
crease the strength. This applied to the nose is good 
‘for faintness and to remove pain inthe head; and is 
much better than what is generally sold at the A- 
pothecaries. 


. Nerve OrnTMenr. 


Take the bark of the-root of bitter-sweet two 
parts; of wormwood and chamomile, each equal 
one part, when green, or if dry moisten it with hot 
water; which put into horse or porpoise oil, 


j 


kind of soft animal oil, and simmer. them over a. 


slow fire for twelve hours; then strain it off and add 
one eos of spirits of 2 creauTe to each pound of 


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Shy + 
ointment. | To be used fora bruise, sprain, callous, 
swelling, or forcorns, = ; 

. £5 

PoULTICE. 

Make a strong tea of Raspberry leaves or of No. 
8; take a cracker pounded fine and slippery Elm 
bark pulverised, with Ginger, and make a poultice of 
the same. This is good for old sores, whitlows, fel- 
ons, and for bad burns, scalds; and parts frozen. Ap- 
ply this poultice and renew it at least as often as 
every 12 or 24 hours, and wash with soap suds 
at every renewal; wetting it in the interim with 
cold water, or a tea of raspberry leaves, ull it dis- 


charges; then apply the salve tilla cure is effected. 


¥ 


INJECTIONS, OR CLYSTERS. : 


This manner of administering medicine is of the 
greatest importance to the sick; it will frequently 
give relief when all other applications fail. It is 
supposed that the use of them is of great antiquity; 
whether this be true or not, the using them to relieve 
the sick, was certainly a very valuable discovery; 
and no doubt thousands of lives have been saved by 
‘t. ‘The doctors have long heen in practice of di- 
recting injections to be given to th ‘ patients, but 
they seem to have no other object in administering 


them, than to cause a movement inthe bowels; there- 


fore it was immaterial what they were made of. 
According tothe plan which I have adopted, there 
are certain important objects aimed at in the admin- 
istration of medicine to remove disease, viz: to raise 
the internal heat, promote perspiration, remove the: 
canker, guard against mortification, and restore the 


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104 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; | 


- digestion. To accomplish these objects the medi- 
cine necessary to remove the complaint must be ap- 
plied to that part where the disease is seated; 


if in the stomach only, by tabing the medicine it 


may be removed; but if in the bowels, the same 
compound must be administered by injection. 
Whatever is good to cure disease if taken into the 
stomach, is likewise good for the same purpose if 
given by injection, as the grand object is to warm 
the bowels, and remove the canker. Ty all cases of | 
dysentery, cholic, piles and other complaints where 
the bowels are badly affected, injections should nev- 
er be dispensed with. They are perfectly safe in all 
cases, and betterthat they be used ten times when 
not needed, than once neglected when they are. In 
many violent cases, particularly. where there is dan- 
ger of mortification, patients may be relieved by ad- 
ministering medicine in this way, when there would 
be nochanee in any other. I do, therefore, most se- 
riously advise that these considerations: be always 
borne in mind; and that this important way of Siv- 
tag relief, be never neglected where there is. any 
chance forit todo good.. Inmany complaints pecu- 
liar to females, they are of the greatest importance 
in giving relief, when properly attended to; for which 
some verbal instruction will be necessary, which will 
readily be given to all those who purchase a right. 

The common preparation for an Injection or Clys- 
ter, is to take a tea-cupful of strong tea mace of No. 
3, strain it off when hot, and add halfa tea spoon- 
ful of No. 2, and a teaspoonful of No. 6; when cool 
enough to give, add half a teaspoonful of No. 1, and : 
the same quantity of nerve powder. Let it ie giv- 4 
en with a large syringe made for that purpose, or 
when this cannot be had, a bladder and Pipe may be ~ 
used. They must be repeated as occasion may re- 
quire till relief is obtained, 


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P ee) * . 

- _ Many other articles may be Pe a advantage in 
the injections; a teaof wie hegie and red-raspberry 
leaves, either or both toget ler, are very goodin ma- - 
ny cases. For canker a tea of -either_of the arti- 

eles described under the head of No. 5, will answer 
agood purpose. When the canker is removed, the 
bowels will be left sore, — 8 case, give injec- 
tions of witch-hazel, or raspberry leaves te: > with 
slippery elm bark. When the injections are used 
to move the bowels only, No. 1. should be left out. 
It is always safe to add the nerve powder, and if 
there is nervous symtoms it must never be omitted. 


“e. 
EEE 


Srock or Mepicine For a Famity. 


a : 

1’ oz. of the Emetic Herb, 

2 ozs. of Cayenne, . 

4 lb. Bayberry root bark, in powder, - © 

1 lb. of Poplar bark, 

1. lb. of Ginger, i ; 

1, pint of the Rheumatic Drops. ; 


This stock wil be sufficient for a family for one 
year, and with such articles as they can easily pro- 
cure themselves when wanted, will enable them to 
cure any disease, which a family of common size 
may be afflicted with during that time. ‘he ex- 
pense will be small, and much better than to employ 
a doctor, and have his extravagant bill to pay. 


Be 


ers to the surface, by 


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in Curing on Preventing # 


le Be « rahites always keep the determining pow 

keeping the inw@tdehicat above) 

the outward, or the fountain above the stream | 
all Bye! be safe. ‘hy 


. It must. be recollected that heat is iife, and! 
Be death; that fever, is a friend and eold an ene-- 
my; it Is therefore necessary to aid iho frend and! 
oppose the enemy, in order to restore he pth 2 


3. ‘That the construction and organizc ti 
human frame, isin all men essentially the 
ing formed of the four elements. ~Eart) and waterr 
constitute the solids ot the body, which is made ac-- 
tive by fire and air. Heat in a peculiar mannert 


~ gives lite and motion to the whole; and when entir-- 


ly overpowered from ba ocy 8 cause by the other el-- 
ements; death ensue 

4. A perfect state of health arises s from a due bal-- 
ance or temperature of the ean and when it is: 
by any means.destroyed, th y is more or less dis-- 
ordered. . When this is the «28 there is always as 
diminution of heat, or an increase of the power of 
cold which is its opposite. 

5. All disorders are caused by obstructed. perspir-- 
ation, which may be-produced by a greatvariety of: 
means; that medicine, therefore, must be adminis-. 
istered, that is best eaicalaed to re ccaitraes 
tions and promote perspiration. > at 

G. The food taken into the stomach and bein 
well digested, nourishes the system and keeps u eS that 

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OR, HOTANIC PAMILY PHYSICIAN. 107 


heat on which life eee, but by constantly tak- 
ing food into the stomach, which 1s sometimes not 
Beets for nourishment, it becomes foul, so that the 
ood is not well di d; this causes the body to 
doose its heat and tikeaat iy * : 
7. Canker is caused by cold, it Oe is alwaya 
more or less of it imall cases disease; continue 
to make use of such articles as are ‘calculated to re- 


order. « : 

8. When isease is removed, make free use of 
those things that"are good to. restore the digestive 
‘powers, not fo og etting to keep up the inward heat by 
‘giving occasionally No. 2.> ~ 

9. Keep alwaysin mind, thatan ounce of preven- 
tative is better than a pound of.cure; and give med- 

icine or . first appearance. of disordér, before it 
become: ated; for it may be then easily ‘thrown off 
and much sickness and expense prevented. 

10. In case of fever, inerease the internal heat 
by giving hot medicine so.as to overpower the cold 
when the natural heat will return inwardly, and the 
¢old will pervade the whole surface of the body as 
the heat has done before; this is what is called the 
turn of the fever. 

* 11. If No. 1 should,sicken and vot puke, there 
may be two causes forit, viz: the coldness orthe 
acidity of the stomach; for the first give No. 2. more 
freely, and for the latter, dissolve a piece of pearl 
‘ash, about the size of a large pea, in a wine glass of 
water, an let them take it, which will counteract 
ate acidity. If this fails, make use of the steam, 
which will oper the pores, extract the cold, and set 

1e ie Be tad operation. 
In giving medicine to children, give about 
S a little more orless, according to their age, 
quantity saga for a grown person. Be 


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108 NEW GUIDE TO UEALTH; 


particular to offer them drink often, especially youn 
children, who cannot ask for it. gee :l 
13. Dysentery is caused by canker on the bowels: 
for which make free use of the of No. 3, with Ne 
2, and give the same by injection, in the first of th 
disease, and afterwards give the-syrup, (No. 5.) ti 
strengthen the stomach and bowels and restore th: 
digestive powers. — 

14: The piles is canker below the reach of medi 
‘icine given in'the usual way, an must be cured by 
_ using awash of No. 3, made strong, and by giving im 

jections of the same, with No. 2. Vehat iscalled bear: 
ing down pains in women, is from the same cause: 
and must be relieved by injections made of witch 
hazle, or red raspberry leaf tea, steeped strong, wit! 
No. 2, strained. If this does not give relief, gy 
through’a regular course of medicines — { 

15. Wemen ina state of pregnancy, ought to be car! 
ried through a regular course of the medicine, esper 
cially when near the time of delivery. When in tra: 
vail, give raspberry leaf tea, with a tea-spoonful o 
the composition powder, or No. 2, and keep ther 
ina perspiration. After delivery keep up the im 
ternal heat, by giving the composition powder, o 
No. 2. ‘This will prevent cold and afterpains; 1 
there should be symptomsof fever, carry them thre 
a regular course of the medicine, which will guarr 
against all alarming complaints, peculiar in suck 
cases. 

16, In/all cases of a burn, scald, or being froz: 
en, wrap the part in cloths wet with cold water, of! 
ten wetting them with the same to prever ; their be 
coming diy, a d_be careful to give hot medicine 
such as No. 2, or the composition powders, to kee} 
up the inward heat. Pursue this plan for twelve 
hours; and then if the skin is off, apply the poultice 
orsalve. If there should be convulsions or fever ¢ 


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regular course of the medicine must, without fail, 
be attended to. = 

‘17. When ascald_ is over the whole or greatest 
part of the body, apply cotton clothof several thick- 
nesses to the whole body, wet with a tea of raspber- 
ry. leaves, thoroughly wetting it with the same to 
prevent it from becoming dry; and give the hot me- 
dicine. When the scald is under the stocking, or 


more cotton c 
ter as often as the smart of the burn returns. 

18. If the skin is off, or in case of an old burn, 
to guard against canker, apply-a poultice of crack- 
erand slippery elm bark, made with a tea of rasp- 
‘berry leaves; washing it. with soap suds, when the 
poultice is changed, and then with the same tea. 
Whenany part is frozen, the same method must be 
taken as witha burn. 

19. For a fresh wound, cut or bruise, wash imme- 
diately with cold water and bind up with cloths 
wet with the same; keep a hot stone at the feet, and 
take medicine to raise a gentle perspiration; ci ntin- 
ue this till the inflamation is allayed and the wound 
perfectly cleansed, then apply the poultice or salve 
tillhealed. ‘The air must be kept from all wounds 
or sores, as it will cause pain and prevent them from 
healing. “ 
-. 20. In sudden and deadly attacks; such as spotted 
or yellow fever, fits, drowned persons, croup, &c. 
the heat and activity of the patient is so much dimin- 


any other Sp ent let it remain on, adding 
oths, and wet the whole withcold wa-. 


ished, that the common administration will not give 


relief, the determining power'to the surface being so 
small, through the loss of internal ee it will 
not give the medicine operation, as its effects are 
resisted and counterbalanced by the pressure of the 
externalair. ‘To counteract this pressure, keep the 
room, by aid of a good a fire, about as warm as sum- 


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110 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH : 


mer heat; and more fully to tarify and lighten tha 
air, and aid the operation of the medicine, make 1. 
free use of the steam bath; and keep the patieni 
shielded by ablanket, at the same time give occas 
sionally Nos. Land 2. This course should be unres 
anittingly persevered in till the patient ‘s relieved... 

21. if the glandsare dry,so that. there is no moiss 
ture inthe mouth, or if the patient, is much pressee 
for breath, give a strong tea of No. 2. sweetened 
and repeat it till the mouth becomes” moist. No. & 
should not be used while the mouth is dry; if any i: 
used, add a large portion of No. 2. ' 

22, Be. careful not to have the ogee heat too 
high, by too many clothsor fire; for if this is the 


_ ease, it will cause a balance of the outward ane 


inward heat, and will prevent the medicine from 

operating, by stopping the circulation; and the par 
tient will be very much distressed. When this hap 
pens, throw cold vinegar on the face and stomach! 
and give more -hot medicine, which will let dow? 
the outward heat and raise tse inward. 

23. If the patient is restless, wet the head ana 
body with cold vinegar; and if there are convulsion: 
or spasms, give the nerve powder with No. 2. Ty 
Jecanins must also be used. 

_ 2a. oe make use of physic in cases ape 
thefe | is canker inside, for it will draw the determin 
ing powers inward and increase the disease, or 
have e seen so many bad effects. from @ivin physic’ 
that I have disapproved of the use of. i wether 
but if any i is given, after the operation careful 
‘to heey, up, the inward heat, so-as_ to: r 


all minerals.used as medicine, sich a 
‘arsenic, antimony, *calomel, preparation: 
of copp er or lead; and also nitre and opium. The 
are alldeadly poison and enemies tohealth, _ 
. 


mercury, 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, lil 


26. Beware of bleeding and blisters, as they can 
never do any good, and may be productive of much 
harm; they are contrary to nature and strengthen 
the power of the enemy tohealth. Seatons and is- 
sues should be avoided as they only tend to waste 
away the strength of the patient, without doing any 
good; it is a much better way to “remove the cause 

_by proper adm meetion of medicine, which will 
be more certain and safe in its effects. ‘ 
27. Be careful not to make use of salt petre in 

~any way whatever; itis the greatest cold of any 
thing that can be:taken into the stomach, and was 
never intended for any other purpose than to destroy 
life. It isa very bad practice to put it on meat, for. 
it destroys all the juices, which is the nourishing 
part, and leaves the flesh hard and difficult to digest. 

28. Never eat. meat that is tainted, or any way 
injured, as it will engender diséase; for one ounce 
in the stomach, is worse than the effluvia of a whole 
carcase. Eat salt provisions in hot weather and 
fresh in cold. pa eae 

29. Be careful about drinking cold water in very 
hot weather, asit will tend to let down’'the inward 
heat so suddenly as to give full power to the cold. 
Tf this should happen, its fatal effects may be pre- 
vented by giving the hot medicine to raise the in- 

ward heat above the outward. Be careful also not 
% to cool’suddenly, after being very warm in conse- 
- quence of uncommon-exercise. : 


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580. Remember that regularity in diet, is very 
important to preserve healib; and that if more food 


_is taken into the stomach than is Welaicested, it 

* clogs the system and causes disease. Therefore be 
‘cautious not to eat too much ata time, and have 
“your food well cooked. ‘This is very important to 
those who haveyweakly constitutions, 


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112 - NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; | 


3l. Ardent spirits isa slow poison; it is taken to» 
stimulate, but the effect is soon over; and much use? 
of it destroys the tone of the stomach, injures the? 
digestive powers, and causes disease. It is there-- 
fore much better, when the feelings require any; 
thing of the kind, to make use of stimulating me-- 
dicine, such as Nos, 2and 6, for these will answer a: 
far better purpose. 

.. . By astrict observance of the foregoing directions, , 

you may save much pain and expense, and enjoy’ 
good health, and long life, which is the earnest wish 
of the writer. Onc 


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To maxe Mitk Porripce. 

Puta quart of water inakettle, with a proper quan-- 
tity of salt, and while heating, mix a gill of flour: 
in a bowl withwater, made thick, and when the wa-- 
Bi ter is boiling hot, drop this into it with a spoon; let: 
‘4 _ it be well boiled, then add half a pint of milk. This) 

to beeaten while under the operation of the medi-- 
cine, and isalso good food for the sick at any other: 
time, especially while the stomach is weak. 


ah 


To MAKE CuickEN Brorn. 

Wa Take a chicken and cut it in pieces; put the giz-. 
sid zard in with it, opened and cleansed, but not peeled... 
_ Boil till the meat drops from the bone. Begin to» 

ie give the broth assoon as there is any strength in it;. 
| and when boiled, eat some of the meat. Let it be: 
well seasone¢ » This may be given instead of the: 
milk porridge, and is very good for weak patients, , 

particularly in cases of ators: 

When the operation of medicine is gone through, , 

< I have said the patient may eat any kind of nour- 
a ishing food his appetite should crave; but the best: 


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‘thing ist take a slice-of salt pork broiled, or beef 
‘steak, well done, ‘and eat it with pepper sauce; or — 
take cayenne, vinegar and salt, mixed together, and 
eat with it, which is very good to create an appetite 
and assist the digestion. — 


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‘THEY MAY BECURED. 
Funons. 


_ This sore always comes on a. joint, as ofter 
pete. caused by some strain or bruise, which makes a leal 
in she joint or muscle and the sooner it has vent, 
et If it is brought to a head by poulticing 
being so thick it -will often be causee 
through the back of the hand, before it ca: 
get through the skin on the inside. The best. was 
__. to give it vent, that I ever,found, is to burn a sma: 
ae -piece of punk, the “bioons of half a pea, on the plac: 
affected. If you think the flesh i is dead down to thi 
matter, you may prick the point of a needle int) 
| the dead.skin, and raise it up, and cut out a. piec 
[o> & under - the. need| sufficient to let out the matte 
- then apply poultice orsalve. If painful, wrap it i: 
cloths of several thicknesses, wet this. with cob 
water, and repeat this as often as it becomes hot ¢ 
painful. ‘Take the composition or warm -medicina 
to keep up an inward heat. nin! 
s _ Tf the sore has been several days poutin, cae ay 
pears nearly ripe, apply a piece of unslaked lim 
| to the ‘part affected, wrap it up and wet the clot 
Pol with cold water till ‘the lime is slaked; and reper 
Si ES of a purple.color; then ope 
a This method is more safe ay 
han laying it open with 
of some doetors. By ew 


to break 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 115 
ea ra . ‘Freezes anp Burns. | ey 62 
- These two names of disorder are one a1 dinitecs 
thing, and require the same treatment. Take ag 


wet in cold water, and wrap sev 1 
round or laid on to the part, to be kep! 
ome 2 the pain increases. Givé wai 


Cl Spee: If the scald_is dangerous, carr 
through a regular course of medicine as though ey 
had a fever, or any other acute disorder; keep the 
~ cloth or poultice on-to-secure it from the air, from _ 
12 to 14 hours, till the soreness or pain is entirely 
gone. if the skin is off, a poultice of ssouitbved ie: 4 
wet with any of the artilces eomposiv@"No.-2, and 3 
keep it wet with the tea, or water, till the sore dig- © 
charges, then wash with soap suds; when dressed ~ 
- wash with the teaof No. “8, and continue the poul- 
tice or salve until aeure is effected, 

A freeze is a direct cold, and a burn is attracted 
cold; for as much as the heat opens the poresifore 
than usual, the cold follows and closes them as much 
more than they were before the operation of the 
heat—this stops the perspiration from going through 
the surface; and-the water collects under the grain 
of the skin, which is called blistering; the water ap- 
plied in the cloth on the outside, opens the pores and 
lets the water out by perspiration, and the grain ad- 
heres to the skin—the pain ceases and the cure is 
completed;. - 2 © : 


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Cure or My Brorner’s Son or A Scaup. © 

» He was about i4 years of age, @ d was tak 

from the fire a kettle of boiling cider, the 1 
py aay 


kettle caught by the log, tipped it forward and 

ec the cider boiling hot into a large bed of Ii 

bers, which covered his feet with this hot 

he was obliged to hold on till the kettle was set on 

the floor, an@ then jumped in‘o a pail of cold water, 
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and stood there until his father procured some cloths, 
which he immediately wrapt his feet up in; his fa- 
ther laid by the fire to attend to pouring on water to 

keep the cloths filled, which keeps the air fr the 

surface and eases the pain; for as the water wastes 

“and lets the air to the burn, the pain will increase; 
but by pursuing this course for about two hours, the 
boy fellasleep. Water was poured on the cloth but 
two or three times during the rest of the night, and 
in the morning, preparation was made to dress the 
wound, when to the surprise of all present no blis- 
terhad risen, nora particle of skin broken. He put 
on his stockings and shoes as usual, and went about 
his work perfectly well. 


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CASE OF A BOY WHO WAS BADLY SeaLpED. 


cloths, kept him easy through the ght. In the 
nere was No ap- 


pearance of blisters, norany skin broken; and he 


te. 


ae es on his shoes and stockings, and apagered as well 


as before the accident happened. It had been the 


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they were hardly able to believe their senses, ment 
the child had been scalded. 


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% » GENERAL Henke. on Burns. | 
Burns are the most easily cured, if rightly r man. 
» aged atid understood, of any wounds I ever attend- 
% ed; and are. the most difficult and dangerous, when 
aot understood, and wrongly treated. How often 
have we seen'these sores continue all winter and 
could not be healed? as also, burns by blisters made 
with Spanish flies, which amount to the same thing. 
By not being treated in a proper manner in season, 
the canker gets in and eats out the flesh, after which 
what is called proud flesh fills up the sore. .The 
doctor applies his sugar 6f lead, vitriol and red pre- 
cepitate to-eat out the dead flesh; this affects the 
cords and draws | them out of shape, aug many times 
makes a sore that they cannot cure, which termin- 
ates in a mortif ying canker sore. My friends, if 
you wish to avoid all this trouble, attend to what be-= 
longs to your peace and A aM before it is hidden 
{rom your eyes; that is attend to the canker, which 
always awaits stich cases, and where the skin is off, 
in cases of burns or blisters, apply a poultice of 
eracker, orelm bark wet with a tea of No. 8, until 
the canker isgone. Sometimes add ginger; if the 
inflammation is hig add a little of No. 2, with the 
ginger, keeping the poultice wet with cold wate 
when the sore discharges apply salve till a Hae 
effected. 

I shalfeontinue my remarks on burns, by showir 
the evil consequence arising from blistering. 2 fot 
Jong since I knew a case where a doctor drew a bhi “aa 
ter ona child’s breast up to the neck, for being — 
stuffed at the ee ee with this scald near its — 
vitals about a week; j Twas, cher called to visit the child 


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and found it.to be dying. The mother asked 

what I thought was the matter with it; [ took off Ki 
dressing and showed her the mortified flesh all ov- | 
_er the blister, and told her that was the disorder, 
she seemed much surprised; and I then asked her) 
if the child had been scalded and it had mortified in — 
the same nanner, whether she would-have had any 
doubt of its being the cause of her child’s Acathte 
she said she should not. I gave her my opinion that 
it was exactly a similar case, and that the child’s 
death was caused as much by the blister as. ‘it would 
have been by ascald.. The child died before morn- 
ing. Lhad declined-doing any thing for it, as | was 
satisfied that I could do it no good; and if Thad 


made the : at - woul have been said that JI 


killed it. ar ee 
I have seen song” where I was perfectly 
nts died in consequence of 


blisters, not only on the stomach, b the head. In: 
many that I have -witnessed, where a blister was 
drawn on the head, as it began io) draw, their sens- 

es were gone and did not return till they died raving 
or stupified. More than half the cases where the: 
head was shaved.and blistered, that have come with- 


in my knowledge, have proved fatal. I can see no. 
reason why a scald on he 


yead or the body done on 
purpose, should have a tendency to effect a cure, 
when persons are on the same — ippen- 
ing to them by accident when well, sh ould estroy 
their health or cause their death. If a Meas should 
have his head or arofenels so badly scalded as to 
take of the skin, we should consider hit in the 
most dangerous condition; but nothing, is said a- 
bout. it when done on purpose. Ist a | leave it to 
the reader to reconcile if he can, this in 

ency. Ihave known most ‘danger -stranguslé 8 
caused by blisters on the sides and limbs, and those 


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a 


who applied them did not know the cause, and 
have been applied to for relief, ae 


Mor qrirication oF THE Limes. : 
cur wag called on to go on board a vessel at Eastport, 
to see a young man, who had a block fall from mast 
a onhis foot, weighing 184 Ibs. which bruised 
Wall his toes to pieces except the little one. The ac- 
cident happened on Friday and I did not see him 
till the Tuesday following; during which he had =~ 
neither eatnor slept. His nerves.were much affect- 
ed, and he had spasms and convulsions. through the 
whole system. I took off the dressing from the foot 
and found it black, and the smell very offensive, 
The captain of the vessel appeared to be very anx- 
ious about him, and asked me if I could his 
foot-—=1 told him I must first try to save his life, for 
his whole body was as much disordered as his foot. 
_ He requested me to do what I thought best. JF put 
a poultice of meal on his foot, and wet the cloths 
with cold water to allay the heat; then gave him 
medicine the same as though he had been attacked 
with anervous fever. The captain attended him — 
through the night, and [went to see him the next 
morning and found him | uch better. ‘The captain 
said he was astonished at the operation of the med- 
_ icine, for that his vorsiting and sweating had car- 
ried off all the pain in his igeand foot, and had 
also reconciled the nerves. es 
I undid his foot and found that the black and yel- 
low siregee up the leg had disappeared, and on the 
foot allthe flesh that was alive seemed to receive 
fresh support from the body; and. the living and 
_ dead flesh appeared as though two colours were 
yainted by the side of each other. I then made a 
ley of pearlash in warm water, and soaked his foot 
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_— in it, which caused a slimy glaze all over his foot: 


this took away all the offensive smell: and I washed 
it with vinegar to kill the alkali-and keep it from ir- 
ritating the skin. The acid cleared off all the sli- 
my matter, so that it wiped clean. I then cut off the. 
great toe at the middle joint, and the two next at 
the upper joint, and set the next which was brok-. 
en. I cut none of the flesh but what was dead, to 
stop in part the putrefaction. I then put on anoth- 
er poultice and ordered it to be kept wet with cold 
water, and a warm stone wrapped in a wet cloth, 
to be put to his feet to keep a steam, giving him 
warm mecicine inside to keep up the inward heat;. 
and by wetting the foot with cold water, it kept the 
determining power to the surface; thus raising the 
fountain and lowering the stream. By this treat- 
mentit becomes impossible that mortification ean go 
from the limbs to the body, any more than a log that 


- floats over the dam, can go back again into the 


pond, when the fountain iskept full. 'The next day 
I dressed his foot and found that the dead flesh had 
digested very much; I again soaked it in pearlash and 
then washed in vinegar as before, which was of great 
service in allaying the bad smell, I then caused him 
to be carried through a regular course o medicine, 
which completely restored his bodily health; his 


appetite was good, and all pain and soreness abated, 


so that he took food regularly and Jost no sleep 


afterwards, till he got entirely well, which was about 
four weeks. The captain a very good nurse, 
and was faithful in attendance on the young man till 
he got well; and expressed the highest gratitude for 
my attent onand success; andas a roof of his con- 
fidence he purchased aright for-which he paid me 
twenty silver dollars, observing at the same time 
that he never paid for any thing with more satisfac-_ 
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Oxy Canxer Sores on THe Leos. = 3 3 
_ When I was a young man, I was much troubled 
through the winter, for many years with sores on 
my.legs. Atthe commencement of cold weather, 
if I broke the grain on my shin, it would become a 
bad sore and continue through the winter; the can- 
ker would get into it and eat into the bone, and a 
_ sometimes spread under the grain dike a burn, and 
feel the same, being extremely sore, with stings and 
twinges like a cancer. These sores were so trou- 
blesome, that itled me to inventacure; finding. the 
cause to be canker, I took some of the articles 
composing No. 3, steeped strong, and washed the 
parts affected with it; if there was a bad smell, I 
first washed the sore with strong soapsuds, taking ~ 
off all the loose skin, which was blistered with can- 
kery humor, and then washed witha tea cf No. 3, 
to destroy the canker and harden the sore; some- 
times wetting it withthe drops. If the inflammation 
“run high and the sore spread fast, [T put into it a 
pinch of fine No.2; then putona poultice of white 
bread and ginger, wet with the above tea, wrapping 
it up with several thicknesses of cloths with cold 
water; wetting them as oftenas dry, soagstobe pain- 
fal; and not let the sore come to the air for 24 hours- 
Inthistime if kept well wet and warm, it will dis- 
charge ripe matter, andthe inflammation and canker 
ewill abate. When next dressed, wash first with. 
* soapsuds as before, thenwith the tea; if.the sore- — 
| Ps salve, with ~~ 


ness 1s gone you may a the heal 

the wet cloths, if going to bed to keep out the air; - 
put occasionally a hot stone wrap ed in wet cloths, 
tothe feet to keep up the steam, and wetting the sore 
if painful with cold water. Give the medicine to 
keep up the inward heat; such as composition or 
hot bitters, and when these do not answer the pur- 


pose, go through a course of the medicine, and re- 


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122 NEW GUIDE TO HEALER, 


peat as the occasion may require. This method, 
* 4G persevered i in I seldom knew to fail of success. 

I was called to attend a case of this kind, not 
long. since, where the inflammation and pain was ve- 
ry great,and fast spreading under the grain.of the 
skin; there had been an elm and ginger poultice, 
made with the tea of No. 3,1 opened it and only ap- 
plied a pinch of No, 2, and laid down the poultice 
again, putting ote aS) cloth, and ordered it kept 
wet with cold water till next morning; when on 
dressing it I found the inflammation abated, the sore 
discharged ripe matter, and by two dressings more 
of the same, the cure was completed, 


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CASE OF A Bite oF 4 RAT SUPPOSED TO. BE MAD. 


Notlong since I was sent for to attend aman who 
had been bitten on one of his eyebrows by a rat, 
. supposed to be mad.—The wound healed in a few 
days, then turned purple round it, as though, the 
blood had settled, and turned black, until he was 
blind. He was sick at the stomach and had a high 
fever. LIcarried him through a course of medicine, » 
but with little advantage. The swelling and dark 
color progressed till he was about the Colour of a 
blackberry pie. These appearances led_me to sus- 
pect that the madness of the rat was caused by eat- 
ing ratsbane, and communicated this poison to the 
man, by the bile. as he appeared the same as a per- 
son 1 had once seen who had been killed by taking 
that poison. | then v washed his face with a stong 
tea of Nos, 1 and. 2% and gave the same inward 
with No. 3, carried him through another course of 
medicine keeping a cloth on his face ‘wet with the 
tea as before, to, keep out the air when under the 
operatic n of the medicine, to sweat his face. and 
throw. the poison out. Ikept him i ina sweat sever- 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY-PHYSICIAN. 123 


al days, occasionally with his face secured from the. 
air, which method had the desired effect, by bring-— 
ing the poison-out. By continually keeping up the 

perspiration, the swelling abated; but whenever this 
was not attended. to, so as to keep the determining 

powers to the surface, the spasms would increase 

to. such a degree that his life was. frequently des- 

paired of. He was carefully attended in this man- 

ner_ about one month, before i could determine in. 
my own mind, whether the. disease. or nature, 

would gain the victory; after which he began grad- . 
ually to gain his health, and in about six months he 
appeared tobe clear of poison, ‘The man was Six- 
ty years of age; and the accident happened: in the 
fall of the year, it was much more difficult to. con- 
quer this cold and deadly poison, than it would 
have been in warm weather. This case convinced . 
me thatthe cause of mad rats and mad Cats,,, is OW- 
ing to the rats having been poisoned by ratsbane, 
the cats eat them and become affected by the poi- 
-60n, which makes them mad, and by biting the peo- 
ple communicate the poison, from which many fa- 
tal consequences have frequently happened. 


a 


Bap wounps in rHB Eye Curren. 


While I was at Eastport, Maine, a man was cut- 
ting turfabout twelve miles from that place, and ac- 
cidentally had.a pitchfork stuck into one of his 
eyes, by a person who was pitching the turf near 
him. It passed by the eyeball and stuck fast in the 
skull, so that it was with considerble exertion that 
he could draw it out. The eye swelled)and closed 
up immediately, and the people were much fright- 
ened and sent for me; but it so happened that I 
could not go. I gave directions to the many 
came after me, to return and carry him through a 


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eourse of medicine as soon as possible, keeping se» 
veral thicknesses of cloth wet with cold water op 
his eye, and not to open it for twelve hours; and ta 
keep him in a perspiration the whole time. This 
was faithfully attended tos; and on opening the 
wound after the above time, the swelling was all gone» 
the eye was open, aad alarge quantity of blood was 
inthe wet cloth, which had been drawn from the 
eye. They continued to wet the cloth, and gave 
him warm medicine inside, keeping him in a gett 
tle perspiration for the next twenty four hours: 
which cleared the eye of all the blood, restored the 
sight,-and amended his health, so that he was wel! 
in about a week, to the astonishment of all who-sav 
him. . 


: Cancer Sores. bees. 

A concise and general treatise on this violent an¢ 
often fatal disease, may convey some useful ideag 
onthe subject. The cause of this sore is very lit4 
tle understood. In all sores of an eating nature: 
there is more or less canker according to their vio- 
lence. A cancer is the highest degree of canker; 
being the most powerful effects of cold, and conse+ 
quently the greatest degree of inflamation, therefore 
the remedies ought tobe those of a warming nature, 
as the greatest preventives against canker. When 
ever a violent inflammation: is discovered, it is: 
supposed that heat causes the difficulty; but the 
fact is, it is only evidence of a war between heat ang 
cold; for there is no inflammation where there iss 
perfect health, because heat then bears completey 
rule; and no disease can take place until the cold 
makes an attack on the body, which causes an un 
natural heat to oppose an unnatural cold; wherever 
the cold takes possessi inflammation shows 
itself, by stoppin on; the effect igs 


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swelling, inflamed cgoue, arising from some. leak, 
caused by the natural course being stopped. If it 
ppurates and discharges, it is called ulcer, bile, 
‘and the like, and the canker goes off with the putre-, 
Beeson. ag the leak is so slow as to callous as fast 
as they discharge, it becomes a hard dead lump of 
flesh, and not having circulation enough to support 
it begins to rot; here the canker shows. its eating 
nature; being seated in the dead flesh, and eating 
on the live flesh which is intermixed with it, causes 
pain and distress, in proportionas the body is filled 
with coldness and canker; if this is sufficient. to 
keep the power above the natural circulation,. the 
patient will continue in. this distressed situation, 
being eaten alive, until worn out with the pain, death 
comes asa friend to relieve him. This is the nat- 
ural termination of this dreadful malady; which i 19 
far better than to combine with it the common 
form of practice in using arsenic, which only helps 
io eat up and distress the patient. | 
In order to give a more correct ideaof the dan- 
erous effect of inaking use of arsenic in canceis, I 
shall make a short extract from Thatcher’ Dispen- 
satory, on the subject:—‘‘Arsenic has long been 
known to be the basis of the celebrated cancer 
powder. It has been sprinkled in substance on the 
ulcer; but this mode of using it has been excessive- 
ly painful and extremely dangerous: fatal effects 
have been. produced from ite abserption. This fact 
I have known i in several instances, where Davidson’s 
agents, and others, have undertaken to draw out 
cancers, when. the patients would absorb enough of 
this poison, which seating on the Jungs, caused them 
to die with the consum n tl 
year.” My wish i this nostrum, is to 
benefit those who may be ignorant of the imposi- 
tion; for it may b relied on as ain 5 » that there 


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_is more. or less. poison in all 
used to cure cancers; and yould advise all to be 
ware of them; it will be mueh safer to risk: the car 
cer than the cancer quack. 

~The principal object ol at iaite tale out. th 


10se burning plaster: 


~buneh, and in doing that by theabove, method, 


worse evil %s inocu ated, which is m fatal the 


‘the cancer... The tumorisa mixture of die and dea: 


esh, and Is often undera live skin; if it is neces 


ae ry t to make an incision through the live skini 


- order to. dissolve the dead flesh, “the best way is- 

~ burna piece of punk o e the p lace; and repeat it ti 
the flesh is dead enough to suppurate. The-smai 
‘will be but two or three minutes, and not so pair 
ful as the arsenic for the same time, which lasts fé 


twelve hours... Where the tumor is small, the cay 


cer balsam will be found sufficient, by repeating th 
plaster ear or three weeks, to take out-the dee 
flesh -and remove the’ canker; after this is dons 
apply a ginger and elm® poultice wet with the tea 
No. 3. Ifthe systemappears to be generally affec 
ed with the caneer humor, carry them through 
“common course of ihedicine, and repeat the san 
while attending to the sore. 

I had a cancer on my foot aboulltthe bigness | 
‘an indian corn “which had bate yd twice; | 
acute darting pains and twinges. red itby a 
_ plying a plaster of the cancer snthed ger repeating: 
twice at each time. When there is flesh uw 
bags skin, it is best te burn the p 

then apply the poultice or balsam; and it is alsor: 
commended to lways g give medicine to eradica: 
the canker oe e systen 1 , both before and after ti 


operation on the sore.. ~ 
Three rs on th > Seeing have come nae al 
care, tha ot.cure.. One‘ of them waa 
large as eck measure, and grew fist to ti 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY Prrysicran,. 127 


‘breast bone. 1 carriéd the woman through a eourse— 
‘of medicine - several times and applied a poultice of. 
butternut shucks to dissolve the dead flesh, and con* 
tinued this course for some months, until the bunch 
had more than half c ssolved, and had grown off the 
~ bone, soghet it was quite loose; and [ was in hopes 
‘to have effected a cure; but she was takén with a 


Be 2c. 


fever in my absence and died. The other two I 


could relieve and keep them free from pain, making 
them comfortable as long as they lived; but nature 
was two far exhausted to complete a cure. T have 
had under my care other ‘cases of cancers on the 
breast and other parts of the body, which 1 had no 
difficulty in curing in the manner before stated. 
I shall conclude the subject by a few general Te- 
marks, viz: Guard ae cee haere! canker 
k 


and coldness—Attend to the can by a course of 
medicine, and repeat it—Use the singer poultice 
‘ifthe inflammation is great, putring’some No. 2. raw 
in thé sore, then apply the poultice keeping it wet 
with cold water—not forgetting the composition and 
No. 2. inside, at thessame time+-Let all’ poisonous 
drugs, burning plasters, and caustics alone—attend 
- faithfully to the directions here given—honor your 
own judgment—keep your money—and bid defiance 
to-doctors.~ “ a 7 ee 


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“oe  Puxs--How Curep. a 

I veetalivd to attend an elderly ‘man in South 
- Reading, who, had been confined to the house, and 
much.of the time to his bed, for seven weeks, with 

the piles. Seven doctors attended him before I was 
sent for, and he pie ee to grow worse, The 
- doctors had operated on one side, and said they 
must on the other; it was their’ | inion as well as 

his; that he was ina decline, ‘The side that they _ 


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had operated "aia was much- worse to cure than) 
the other. I carried him through a regular course: 
of ‘medicine twice in three days, when he was able: 
to go out of doors. The injection composed of No. 3,, 
steeped, anda small quantity of No. 2, was used;; 
warm tallow was applied freely several times in a4 
day, sometimes washing externally with the same: 
‘tea. He had been dieted very low; I restored his) 
digestive powers, and he recovered his appetite; hiss 
__ sores healed, his general health amended-to such a) 
degree, that he was-no more. confined with that) 
— complaint. A little tallow us d when going to bed,, 
prevents piles‘and chafes in young and old. Re-. 
—_ _member this. =e es-cohaee a 
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: SORE Hiraps 1Nn Curpren---(Scalt Heads.) 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 129 
Sore Breasts, a 
Some women suffer very much from this complaint, 
which is caused by cold, occasioning obstructions in» 
the glands of the breasts. When they are swelled, 
bathe with the rheumatic drops, or pepper vinegar; 
if this does not remove the swelling, and it should 
be necesary to bring it to a head, apply a poultice of 
lily root made thick with ginger, or slippery elm 
bark: at the same time give the composition pow- 
der or No. 2, to keep up the inward heat. - If the 
woman is sick carry her through a regular course of 
medicine, whieh will remove the complaint and re- 
store her to health in q short time. I have cured 
many who were very bad, by pursuing the above 
plan and never met with difficulty. T attended a. 
woman in Portsmouth who had both breasts badly 
swelled. She was sitting by the window with it 
up, and could hardly get her breath; she could not 
bear to have any fire in the room, complaining 
that it made her faint. I told her that if [ “eould 
not inake her bear heat, I could do her no good, 
I gave her some No. 2, to raise the inward heat, 
and caused agood fire to be made in the room. — Che 
inward heat gained as fast as the outward, and in 
one hour she could bearas warm a fire as [ could, 
I carried her through three regular courses of the 
_ Medicine in five days, and at the same time applied 
the lily poultice, which brought them to a head 
' without pain; and she was soon well. 


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To srop BuErpine. Pine 

_ Internal bleeding is from-the stomach or lungs, 

and is caused by canker, or soreness of the stom- 
ach; it often takes place very suddenly and createg — 
| much alarm. The patient sometimes trembles with 
fright and often has rs of the, ague, which ig 


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caused by the cold increasing in proportion to the: 
loss of blood. In the first place shield them from 
the air with a blanket, by the fire, and give the hot- 
test medicine you have; if nothing better can be: 
had, give hot water or any kind of tea; and get & 
perspiration as soon as possible; then apply the 
steam bath; giving ginger tea, or No. 2, if you 
have it, if not. black pepper. As soon as there ie 
an equilibrium in the circulation, there will be no 
more pressure of the blood to the stomach or lungs: 
than to the extremities, andthe bleeding will cease: 
It has been my practice in cases of this kind, t 
give some of the rheumatic drops, shield them from 
the air with a blanket, placed by the fire; then giv 
a dose of composition powders, and No. 2; and 
this does not answer the purpose gyve a dose of Ne 
4, which with the steam, I never knew fail of stoy 
ping the blood; and giving medicine to remove th! 
canker and restore the digestive powers, T have as 
ways been able to effect a cure. The same applic 
tion will answer for other weaenking complaints: 
women. ee 
External bleeding caused by wounds in the l 
may be stopped by placing the wound higher | 
the body. One of my sons cut his leg very ba 
I placed him on the floor and took his foot in m 
lap; as soonas the wound was higher than the boo 
the bleeding ceased I then poured on cold wat 
till the wound was white; then put in a few dra 
of No. 6, took two or three stiches to bring t! 
wound together, dressed it with salve, and it so 
got well with very little soreness. Another cé 
of a little girl who cut off the main artery of the m1 
dle finger, and it bled very fast. I put my thumb» 
bove the wound and stopped the blood, then pour 
on cold water with my other hand and washed t 
-_ wound well; then placed her hand above her he: 
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which prevented it from bleeding till I could get 
ready to dress the wound. It bled no more and soon 
got well, 


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” Rupture. " 
This difficulty is caused by a hurt or strain, which 
. makes a breach in the tough"film, or membrane, that 
' supports the bowels in their lace, and the intes- 
tines come down in the cavigMet een this mem- 
brane and the skin; being sometimes very painful 
_ and difficult to be got back; and have to keep them 
* from coming down by a truss. When the bowels 
come down and remain any length of time, they 
become swelled, and are very painful, causing great 
distress anddanger; and sometimes have proved fa- 
tal, as they cannot bd got up again till the swelling 
isremoved. This may be effected by a course of 
medicine without danger. 

A Mr. Woodbury of Durham, was troubled with 
arupture; his bowels came down, swelled and were 
very painful; adoctor was sent for from Portsmouth 

ah pplied a bag of snow, which drove the pain 
- to the stomach and caused puking. The swelling 
_ increased and became very hard. The case. now 
_ becoming desperate, and the family being alarmed, 
_ Iwas sent for, and on hearing the circumstances, 
Sent some medicine, and gave directions to sweat 
him as soon as possible, My directions were faith- 
fully attended to, and as soon as he became warm, 
the nerves slacked, the swelling a ated, all the ap- 
‘pearance of mortification disappeared, the bowels 
"went back, and in twelve hours he was restored 
from a dangerous situation, to almost his usal state 
of health. In this case may be seen the difference 
_ between fire and snow. 


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AGuUE IN THE FAcE. 


This is caused by cold in the glands of the mouth! 
which keeps back the saliva till it causes swelling: 
and soreness; the canker becomes prevalent at the: 
game time, which causes severe pain in the face and 
throat. The sooner acure is attempted, the better; 
to effect this, take a dose of theteaof No. 3, with a 
tea-spoonful of No. 6, in it, for the canker; then tie 
a small quantity of No. 2, in a fine piece of cloth: 
wet with No. 6, and put it between the teeth anc 
cheek, on the side where the painis; sit by the fire: 
covered by a blanket, and breath the warm air fron 
the fire; this will prick the glands and cause the 
galiva to flow very freely, which will take out the 
soreness and relieve the pain. The face may be bath 
ed at the same time with No. 6. If the case is 00 
long standing, so that the system is affected, anc 
this does not remove the complaint, give a dose oi 
No.1. If it is caused by decayed teeth, fill the 
hollow with cotton wool, wet with the oil of sum: 
mersavory, or spirits of turpentine, which wil! 
deaden the nerve, and stop its aching. ‘This ii 
good inall cases of teeth ache, and will generally 
effect a cure without extracting. 


ay ; F 
To RELAX THE MUSCLES IN SETTING A Bone. 


This may be done by bathing the part with warm 
water, and is much better than the method that i} 
generally practiced, of extending the muscles by tha 
strength of several persons, which weakens the par! 
so much that the bones are liable to get out of plac: 
again; besides the operation causes severe pain ‘ti 
the patient and much trouble to the operator, whic? 
is all obviated by my method. In cases where | 
joint is’ put out, ora bone broken, give a dose of Nc 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 133 
™ 2, or the composition powder, with a half a tea- 
spoonful of nerve powder, which will promote a 
perspiration, prevent fainting, and quiet the nerves; 
then wrap the part in cloths wet with water as hot 
as it can be borne, and pour on warm water, (plac- 
ing @ pan underneath to catch it) for a short time, 
when the muscles will soen become relaxed, so that 
the bones may be put in their place with little trou- 
ble 

Iwas once called to a woman who had put her 
elbow out of joint by a fall from her horse. It was 
badly out, being twisted about one quarter of the 
way round. Lordered some water to be made hot 

F immediately, strippod her arm, and as soon as the 
water was hot, put atowel-in a large tin pan and 
poured the water on till well wet: as soon as cool 

- enough, wrapped it round her arm, and poured on 
the water from a pitcher, as hot asshe could bear it, ~ 
for about fifteen minutes. I then took off the towel 
and directed one person to take hold of. the arm 
above the elbow and another below, to steady it; 
and then placed my fingers against the end of the 
bone en the under side, and my thumb against that 
on the upper side, and by a gentle pressure each way 
bu the joint without pain, or force on the muscles, 
to the astonishment of all present, who calculated - 
that it would require the strength of several men. } 
I then wrapped it up with the same towel; which 
had become cold; this brought the muscles to their 
proper tone and kept the joint firm in its place; I put 
herarm in asling and she walked home that night 
about a mile, and the next day was well enough to 
knit all day. 

In case a shoulder is out of joint, I relax the 
muscles in the same manner, and put the arm over 
my shoulder and lift up, which has always put the 
joint in its place, without any danger and very lit- 


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134 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; 


tle pain to the patient; and then. by applying cold — 
water, the museles will become braced, so that there. 
will be no danger of its getting out again. Lknew 

of a case where aman had his hip turned out, and 

several doctors had exhausted their kill in vain to 

set it; when one of my agents being present, under- 

took it by my plan of treatment, and after he had» 
relaxed the muscles sufficiently, put his knee against 

the hip joint, turned the leg out and crowded the 

joint into its place Without any difficulty. 


Porson By Ivy oR Doewoon, 
Many people are troubled with this difficulty ev- | 


_€ry season, and I have been much afflicted with it 


myself in my younger days, often being poisone 

in such manner as to swell and breakout very badly, 
and knew no remedy but to let it have its course, 
which was almost as bad as the small pox. One of 
my sons was often afflicted in this way, and one sea- 
son was poisoned three times so as to be blind for 
several days. fr long sought a.remedy without suc- 
cess, till I found it inthe emetic herb. Ry washing 
with a tincture of the green plantas is directed 
in the second perparation pi the emote nerb, on 
the first appearance of the disease, is a certain re- 
‘medy. If the complaint has been for any length of 
time and has become bad, it will be necessary to 
take a dose of powdered emetic, (first preparation) 
to clear the system of the poison, at the same time 
of washing with the tincture. A tincture made of 
the powdered leaves and pods, will do to wash with 
when the tincture, or green plant. cannot be had. 
The powdered seeds, with Nos. 2 and 6, (third pre- 
paration) may always be used for the same purpose. 


: OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 136 
Bi MEASLES. he 
This disease is very common, especially among 
children, and is often attended with bad consequen- 
ces, when not properly attended. It isa high state 
of canker and putrefaction; and if the determining 
wers are kept to the surface, it will make its ap- 
earance on the outside, and go off itself; but if 
cold overpowers the inward heat, so as to turn the 
determining powers inward, the disease will not 
make its appearance, and the patient will become 
much distressed, frequently producing fatal conse- 
quences, if some powerful stimulant is not admin- 
istered to bring the disorder out. To give physic 
in Oees of this kind is very dangerous, as ‘it 
strengthens the power of cold and keeps the canker - 
and putrefaction inside, which sometimes seats up- 
on the lungs and causes consumption; or turns to 
the stomach and bowels, when they die suddenly, — 
as has been the case with hundreds, for a few years 7 
past. J have attended a great many cases of the 
measles in the course of my practice, and never lost, 
one; and never have known of any that have died __ 
of this disorder, who were attended by any of my ~ — 
agents. When the symptoms make their appear- 
ance, give a dose ge the composition powder, or of © 
No. 2; then give the tea of No. 3, to guard against — 
canker, and add some No. 2, to overpower the cold; 
and When the second dose is given, add No. ‘1, to 
clear the stomach and promote perspiration; as soon 
as this takes place, the disorder will show itself on 
the outside. By continuing to keep the determin- 
ingpower tothe surface, nature will take its regu- 
lar course, and the disease will go off without inju- 
ring the constitution. If the bowels appear to be 
disordered, give an injection; and and be careful to 
keep the patient warm. 


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measles; she lingered with the symptoms four or five 
days, and then became very sick, turned of a.dark. 
purple color, and had a high fever when I was called 
to attend her. I gave hera strong dose of No. 3, 
steeped, and put into a spoonful of the third prepara- 
tion of No. 1, which caused such a violent struggle 
| that I had to hold her in bed; but it was soon over, 
I », for in abot t ten minutes she vomited and a perspir- 
_. ation took place, which was followed by the measles 
| coming out, so that she was completely covered with 
, the eruption. She was soon well and about her ~ 
eae ae : ™ £ - <5 ae ae 


I once had a case of a young woman who had the 


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| work. 
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@ Smatu Pox —, ae 


This disease is the highest state of canker and 
putrefaction, which the human body is capable of 
- ~_—‘rec€iving, and is the most contagious, being taken = 
| in with the breath, or may be communicated by inoc- 
- ulation; in which case it is not so violent and dan- 
_gerous as when taken in the natural way. The dis- 
tressing and often fatal consequences that have hap- 
pened in cases of the small pox, are more owing to 
the manner in which it has been treated than to the 
disease. The fashionable mode of treatment in this 
disease has been to give physic, and reduce the 
strength, by starving the patient and keeping them ~ 
cold. This is contrary to commonsense, as it weak- _ 
ens the friend and strengthens the enemy; and the © 
/ game cause would produce similar effects in any 
| other disorder. All that is necessary is to assist 
nature to drive out the canker and putrefaction, 
which is the cause of the disease, by keeping the: 
determining powers to the surface, in which case — 
there will be no danger. The same manner of treat- 


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OR, BOTANIU FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 137 


‘ment should be used in this complaint as has been 
directed for the measles. 'The canker-rash, and all © 
kinds of disease that a person is not liable to have 
* but once, such as chicken pox, &c. are from the 
same cause and must be treated ina similar manner. 


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The general Opinion is that cough ile enemy to 
health, and ought to. be treated as such; but this 
idea T hold to be altogether an error, foritistheef- — 
fect andnot the cause of disease. When the tales 
are diseased there will be a collection of matter, 
which noe Boake and the cough is like the 
| pump of a ship, which discharges the water and 
prevents her from sinking; so also the cough throws’ 
off what collects on the lungs, which if suffered to 
remain there would soon putrift and cause death. 
ae IS oy 0 ing, that I have had a bad cough 


do, and he would say, keep the pump going till you 
can stop the leak, and when: that is stopped the 
‘pump will»become useless, as there will be nothing 
to throw off, Such medicine should be fiven as will 
promote the cough, till the cause can be removed; 
which is.cold and canker on the lungs; after this 
is done there will be no more cough. If a cough ig 
caused by a sudden cold, it may be removed by tak- 
ing the composition powder on going to bed, with a 
hot stone wrapped in wet cloths put’ to the feet to 
produce a prespiration, and at the same time taking 
the cough powder, which will make the patient’ 


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raise easy, andalso help to remove the cause. When: 
the cause has become seated, and the lungs are dis-- 
eased, they must be carried thro’ a regular course of! 
‘the medicine, repeating the same as occasion may’ 
require till a cure is effected, at the same time giv-- 
ing the cough powder, especially on going to bed. 
Whooping-cough must,be treated in the same man-- 


ner; continue to give the powderstillcured. 
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itis saidthey are bilious; this a miste}- 
there is no such thins-*- ouere being 


it would be «ore correct to say there was 1 
enough. The difficulty is caus h be: 
ing cold and foul, so that the food properl} 
digested; and the bile not belied Eaproarievele itt 
natural. use, is diffused through the pours of th 
skin, which becomes of a yellow color. The symp 
toms are want of appetite, costiveness, faintness: 
and the patient will feel dull and sleepy; these ar? 
evidences of bad digestion and loss of inward heat 
The only way to effect a cure is to promote perspil 
ation, cleanse the stomach, and restore the digestivi 
powers, which will cause the bile to be used for thi 
purpose nature designed it. 5 . 

Nature has contrived it that each part of the bod 
should perform its proper duty in maintaining healt 
and if there is no obstruction there would neve 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 139 


be disease. The gall bladder grows on the liver 
and is placed betw =n that and the stomach, 80 that 
‘when the latter is filled with food, the bile is dis- 
charged into the stomach to digest it. The bilene- 
yer nttkes disorder, for it is perfectly innocent, be-"~ 
ing nature’s friend; and those appearances called — 
bilious, show the effect of disease and not the cause. 
The gall is a very bitter substance, and it is the 
Practice of the doctarg o order bitter medicine to 
cure the jaundice, and t 1s Seems to be the univer- 
sal opinion which is correct; but it certainly con- 
tradicts the notion that there is too much bile, for if. 
there is too much, why give medicine to make more? 
Ihave attended many cases of this kind and never 
had any difficulty in effecting a eure. My method 
is to give No. 2, or the composition powders, to 
Yaise the inward heat, and No. 1, to cleanse the 
_ stomach and promote perspiration; then sive the 
_ bitters or (No.4,) to regulate the bile and restore 


the digestive powers. If the complaint has been of 
long Banding and the system is much dsordered, 
they must be carried through a regular conrse of the 
“Medicine, and Tepeat as occasion may require, at the 
_ Same time give the hitters two or three times a day 
till the appetite is good and the digestion restored. 
Any of the articles described under the head of No. 
4, are good and may be used for all bilious com- 
plaints. ‘ Pea : 


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2 
3 Worms. 
“A great deal is said about worms causing sick- 
ness, and there is scarcely a disease that children 
‘are afilicted with, but what is attributed to worms. 
e doctors talk about worm complaints, worm fe- 
vers, worm cholics, &c. and give medicine to de- 


140 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH; _ 

stroy their patients. There was never a greater ab-. 
surdity than their practice, and the universal opin-. 
ion about worms causing disease. ~The fact is, they” 
are created and exist in the stomach and bowels for’ 
a useful purpose, and are friendly to hea thy lustead | 
of being an enemy; they are bred and supported! 
by the cold phlegm that collects in the stomach and! 
bowels; this is their element; and the more there: 
is of it the more there will be of the worms; they; 
NEVEr CAUSE ee dew, a ney IT. POSE 


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who are in health are never troubled with worms, 
because they are then quiet and existin their natur- 
al element; every one has more or less of them; 
and the reason why children are more troubled with 
what is called worm complaints, is because they are 
nore subject to be disorded in their stomach and 
bowels than grown persons. . When. children are 
sick and'their breath smells bad, it is said they have 
worms, end every thing is laid to them; but this is 
owing todisease caused by canker, for there is 
nothing in the nature of worms that can affect the 
~ breath. In cases of this kind, the only thing neces+ 

sary is to eleanse the stomach, by getting Fi : 
feold phlegm, and restoring the dige ve po W 
when therewill be no difficult with the worms. — 

The common practice of the doctors is to. give 
calomel and other poisons.tg. kil ‘the worms; thi 
+ must appear to any ene who examines into the sul 
- ject to be very wrong as well as dangerous; for th 
worms cannot be killed by it, without poisoning th 
whole contents of the stomach. I once knew a cas 
of achild, who, after eating a breakfast of bread ani 
milk, was taken sick; a doctor was sent for, whe 
said it was caused by worms and gave calomel to de 
stoy them, which caused fits; the child vomited am 
threw up its breakfast; a dog that happengd to 
in the room eat what the child threw up; he we 


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soon taken sic 
_ fortunate accident o 


) stomach what it had taken, probably saved its life, 
ud for if there Was poison enough to kill a dog, itmust | 
have killed the child.-®he absurdit y of such practice 


ied; the child got wou The 
ild’s throwing off its | 


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is like the story related by vain kis 

who was troubled ok Seen Mca 

get rid of the weasel ‘he set fire to hiss bars Ma | 

burnt itup, Thad the following relation Goi th 

éoctor who attended the tases: three clula | 4 

what he called worm fever; *aq ho sional < Ae 

the worms, “One of them died. jo peque ny “4 

-  berty to open it tosee what woul rte on # 
Rerroy. Ns, 


'8;. but the — - 


the parents cousented to have. it openedy Ya 

_ searching the stomach and bowels, to their surprise—_ 
~~ no-worms could be found.” The third soon after 

died. ‘Fhe fact was, their death was caused by 


_ canker on the stemach and bowels, and the medi- 


© cine increased the difficulty by: drawing the deter- 


- mining powers inward, which aided the cold to pro- Bw. 
'-*mote the canker. Where children die by such _ 

treatment, the blame is all laid to the worms, and 
the doctor escapes censure. IT have had a great 
deal of experience in what are called worm com- 
ae after having become acquainted with 
he real cause, have hadno difficulty in curing all 
that I have undertaken with. Ibegan with my own 
children. One of them was troubled with what was 
supposed to. be worms; I employed a doctor, who 
gave pink root, and the physic to’carry it off with 
the worms. It would shortly after have another 
_ turn, which woul be worse; he went on in this way 
and the worms kept increasing, till I became satis- 
fied that he was working on the effect and neglect- 
ed the cause, whenI dismissed him and undertook 


the cure myself. I first gave the warmest medicine 


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sexe of to clear off © Cold phlegm; anc 
bitter medicine ach. as popes bam he a 
‘wood, hare ake olyse made of the os aa 
ternut, to cleanse the stomach and to correctt 4 i pa 
By pursuing this phases ere et or | 
wasno more troubled with worms. idin t y 
neighborhood where I lived, about wee: old, 
Gis tateeusick ii the morni g and the octor was: 
: ent for,who gaye medici#e for worms; soon after 
ON Oe a oe ertins ll dlaealbions during the 
it ha ps et ht die« 1 was Satisfied that its death: 
aay, a son Mot caused by what was given, 
Sy msgs” ach is diseased, or when poison ig: 
a he worms try to flee from their dangers 
: which ses distress, and they sometimes get in- 
| -and stop the passage into the stomach, 
—— uch more might be said on this subject; but} 
enough has been stated to put those who aitend to: 
it ‘on their guard against the dangerous practice of! 

- giving medicine to kill worms, — 
|.» My practice has been and I sh 
_/ . to others in cases of what is 
plaints, to give the composition 
/ to warm the stomach, a tea of N 
' canker, ‘and the bitters of either of the articles de-- 
-seribed under No. 4, ta correct the bile. if they 
. are bad, carry them through a course of the medi-. 
x cine, and give the bitters. ; 
"Yous symptoms, give the nerve powder. Injections: 
shoul also be frequently given, The butternut : 
_.. Syrup.is very good. If there should» be danger of! 


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all recommend! 
i called worm come. - 
powders, or No. 2,, 


0. 5, to remove the: 


oN 
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ie Same manner.— 
t half an inch long, and 
in together and appear 
€ away in long pieces of 


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several yards, I was 07 


Tapagerhe faint and have no —- <— 
- gel be hans butternut physic, : aah brou a 
away Severaryards at a time; and by tat the si 
ter medicine to COrrect the bile, was never troy led 
With it@@in. "oo. ‘. ee 
I have often heard about people having i 
worm; but this is a mitts m ie. for orcas 
‘ <aips any such thing. e difficulay is the stomach 
_  bembg-cald and disordered, so that food is not prop- 
erly digested, passes off ¥ ithout noutshing the ge “ 
tein, and this creates an unnatural aPkatite. Ree 
move the cause by warming the stomach eid car. 
recting the digestive powers, anid Mero Wilt dic 
rther difficulty. In the year 1805, I was CBled 
» to see a young woman, who it-was su , 


osed haa. 
‘ greedy-worm. It was thought to be aoe large ans 
_ would frequently get into DEF texcot ang Fenton 


almost stopping her breath. Her Mather told me 
that the day before, one of the meighbors “as ma 
told a story about a person having @.,n ctor jin their 
* stomach, which was taken in by drinking t4 ook; 
this terrible account so frightened her daughter, 
that the worm rose into her throat and choaked her | 
so bad that she had fits. I.took the girl home with — 
me and gave her a dose of hot bitters, with some ~ 
_of the nerve powder that night; the next morning 


Lie 


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about the worm. The d ii | by a 
disordered stomach ’ digestion, which 
produced spasms in BES 


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es 7 i Cons be ON. | tes 
int i-eenerally caused by some-ecuté: 
ig removed, and the_pedent being 

run dow»®Y the fashionable Lae OR deg 
makes a compromise with disease, os 1e louse 
becomes Aivided agaimst itself. Ther fs constant 
warfare kept up between the inward hea and cold, 
the flesh wastes away in consequence of not digest- 
ing the food, the canker becomes seated on thes om-. 
ach and bowels, and then takes hold of a ngs.. 
When they é¢t into this situation it 4s te = me 
ed cong“ption, and is pronounced by the oc os 
to be curable. I have had a Ab ere ioe of 
thisdind, and have in all of them, see ae was 
je enough left to build eg MY 2 to effecta: 
sure by my system of practice. The most Impor-: 
tant thing Is to raise the inward heat and get a per-: 
‘pation, Clear the System of, canker, and restore: 
eee powers, so that food will nourish the: 

; hs 


This compla 
disorder not 


_ tne aigest’ -that heat on which life depends. . 
ee Cy ¢ ee Pp ° 
: vouy and so don 


Tia e. by the regular course of medi-- 
cine fas been directed in all violent attacks of 
disease, and persevering in it till the cause is re- : 
moved. ; y 
This complaint is called by the doctors a hectic. 
fever, because they are subject to cold chills and 
hot flashes on the surface; but this is an error, for 
there is no fever about it; and this is the greatest 
difficulty—if there was it would have a crisis and 
nature would be able to drive out the cold and effect 
a cure; the only difficulty is to raise a fever, which 
must be done by such medicine ag will raise and 
hold the inward heat till nature has the complete 
command. When the patient is very weak and low, 
they will have what is:called cold sweats; the cause 
of this is not inderstood; the water that collects on 


- the skin does not come t rough the pores, but is 


8 


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- td a mm 
he 1 tan 7 Se he. ely =A 
4 et ee aOR 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 


»than the body; anc 


hol A 


ae) a 


same may be 

on a het day, 
from the sam 

uttend to the ) comp 
ite If people would ntake.use of t 
I hay sec oyithens ed, and cure themselves of dis- 
caval its first stages, and avoid all poisonous drugs, 


4 ———— 


od mh ice ee Ware : ae 
These are produced ‘by the same cause as other 
complaints, tliat ig, cold and obstructions, and may 
_be cured by a regular course of the medicine, which 
“overpowers the cold, promotes perspiration, and 
restores the digestive powers, . Poison, or any thing 
else, which gives the cold: power over the inward 
heat, will cause fits, becatisé the natura! tone of the 
pmuscular powers is,thereby destroyed, wh ich'produ- 
"ees violent spasms on the whole system, So much 
‘Ras.already been said on this ‘subject, that itis Une 
Necessary to say more, to give a correct idea of the 
manner of cure.” Cetra 3s 
Peo 


ae 


a 
F ae 
a ee rapes | ¥ 7 a 
° iia ee J Pane 
i 4 


ee 
Sr. Antuony’s Ping, Nerre Spring, or Surretr. 


4 eh ets a littl ‘@ upper hand, 
#0 as to produce perspiration, it will disappear till 
oh 10 a 


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146 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


they get another cold. The only way to effect 


cure is to give the hot medicine, and steam, till the 


are brought to the same state of heat as that whic 


first causes the disease, and then cool by degree: 


This I have proved in several instances, and nevé 


had any difficulty in entirely removing the cause 


this way, Make use of a tea of No. 3, for canke: 
and the bitters to correct the bile, anda little nerr 
powder to quiet the nerves, and they will soon f 
restored to perfect health. 


ee 


Srraneury, on GRAVEL. 
This disorder is often caused by hard labor, ar 


“exposure, to the cold, in the early part of life; ay 


when they grow cold their heat diminishes, the bi 
becomes thick, and a sediment collects on th 
bladder, which obstructs the passages; the glan: 
through which the urine passes, are clogged at 


- become diseased, so that there is “a difficulty 


voiding the water. which causes great pain. It 

seldony that there is a cure in such cases; but reli 
may be obtained by a course of the medicine, ar 
nvaking free use of the poplar bark tea. A tea: 


othe hemlock boughs is very good; and also I ha: 


known great relief from using the wild lettuce as 
pipsisway, the tops and roots bruised and steep« 
in hot water. Many other articles that are good | 


promote the urine may be used to advantage. 


Bd 
et ee 


DRopsy. 


_ ‘Phere are two kinds of this complaint; one 
caused by losing the inward heat so as to stop.t) 
yiatural perspiration, which causes the water that 


tie. usually thrown off in this way, te collect in the bo 


es ae 


\ 
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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 147. 


and limbs. This may be cured by raising the in- 


ternal heat and causing a profuse berspiration, when. 
ihe water will pass of in the natural way; then make 


use of such medicine as will remove canker and re- 
store the digestive powers, when the food being di- 
gested will keep up the natura] heat of the body 
and keep up the perspiration, The other kind ig 
caused by cold and obstruction; but instead of the 


water collecting and remaining in the body and 


limbs, a leak forms in the glands and lets it into the 
runk of the body, where there is no vent to let it 
off. This cannot be cured without tapping, and is 
very seldom completely cured. Ihave never known 
but two who were in this situation to be perfectly 
restored, One wasa girl whom I attended; [tapped 
her and took away seventeen pounds of water; then 
swathed her up close, and gave medicine to keep a 
perspiratiun; she did‘ not fil again and was com- 
pletely cured. The other was a iman—he had been 
tapped twice. I carried him through the course 
of medicine several times, and gave the juniper 
ashes with molases and gin, which carried of large 
quantities of water, and he entirely recovered from 
the disorder. I have cured a number who had the 
first mentioned complaint, by the common course 
of medicine; one woman was cured by taking the 
wild lettuce, bruised and steeped in- hot water, 
Mention has been inade of several cases of this dis- 
ease inmynarative, which were cured; and enough 
has been said to give an idea of the cause and 


mavner of treatment, ; 
(Serer rs rarer, 


Bizrovs Cuore. bei 
‘ ey ale es 5 
The name of this complaint is erroneous, | for 
ilious means the bile, and no one ever heard of a 
ile cholic or pain caused by gall, as it is a friend to 
10* ee 


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148 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH, 


health and never caused disease or death. This 
pain is caused by a disordered stomach and 

want of digestion; the stomach is filled with can- ’ 
ker, which gets into the narrow passage from the 

stomach, when the action of the bowels cease; af- 

ter the pain subsides, those parts where it was, are: 
very sore. To cure it, raise the inward heat by 

ceiving the hot medicine, remove the canker with 

No. 3, and giving the bitters to correct the bile, , 
and repeat if, till a cure 1s effected. If the case is: 
bad carry them through a course of the medicine, | 
and often give injections. : 


 PLEuRIsyY. 

his is a distressing complaint and is caused hy 
cold or want of inward heat; jnever had any dith- 
eutty in curing it by my common practice. ‘THe 
only remedy made use of by the doctors is to bleed)! 
this only increases the disease, by reducing the 
strength of the patient, without removing the cause: 
Iwas once called to a soldier at Eastport, who haa 
a violent pain in his side; the doctor that attendee 
him, bad bled him five times, without removing th) 
pain, which made hiai so weak that it was with diff 
ficulty he could be held up in the bed.  [ relieve: 
him inone hour by a common course of medicine 
“and bathing his side with the rheumatic drops. - 
‘took three weeks to get up his strength, whic 
might have been donc in three days if he had not ge 
bied. 1 was called to another case of the Kind, ' 
4 soldier at the same place. He had been bled ar 

. alarge blister put on his side to remove the pal 
- which caused a strangury and he was in great di 
tress. I declined doing any thing for him. withor 


the consent of the commanding officer, who wi 


not present. ‘The soldier begged of me to tell h 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 149 


what to do for the latter complaint, as he could 
not live so- I told him to take off the blister, 
which was immediately done, and it gave instant re- 
lief. By carrying them through a course of medicine, 
as has been directed for other violent attacks, will 
cure all cases of this complaint without danger; and 
is much better than bleeding or blisters, which in- 
creases the difficulty. 


Rewax. 

This complaint is caused by indigestion, or loss 
of the powers of the gall, which becomes thick in 
consequence of cold, or loss of inwed heat, when 
the stomach will be sour. The best¥refnedy is to 
give No. 2, which will thin the gall; cleanse the sto- 
mach with No. J, and give the bitters to correct the 
digestion. A dose of composition powders with a 
tea-spoonful of No. 6, in it, will in most cases 
effect.a cure. The bayberry and poplar bark is good 
and-also many other articles that have been de- 
scribed.as good to restore the digestive powers. 


DYSENTERY. 


» This is a distressing complaint, and is very com: 
mon, especially among children; although much has _ 


already been said on this subject; yet its importance 
will justify some further directions, Itis caused by 
cold, which gets the ascendency over the inward 
heat so as to draw all the determining powers in- 
ward; the stomach is disordered, the digestive 
powers are lost, and the bowels become. coated 
with canker, the food is not digested so as to afford 
any nourishmentor heat to the system, and all the 
juices flow inward and pass off by the common pas- 
sage. The cankermakes the bowels very sore and 


J Met hai 


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150 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; © 


when any thing passes them it causes excrutia- 
ting pain. The best plan of treatment is to carry 
the patient through a regular course of medicine, 
and repeat it, if occasion should require, every day 
till reliefis obtained. During the operation give, 
chicken broth, and after the disease is checked, 
give occasionly a little brandy and loaf sugar burned 
together, and a strong tea of poplar bark. Give the 
syrup, (No 5,) two or three times a day until en- 
tirely recovered, and tlie bitters, (No. 4.) may be ~ 
given night and morning to restore the digestion. 
Care must be taken to keep up the inward heat in 
the interim, by giving occasionally No. 2 in a tea of 
No8, sweetewed. teaming ig very important in 
{his complain., and injections must often be admin- 
tered. 


-RHEMATISM. 


This complaint is caused by cold obstructing. the 
natural circulation which causes pain and swel- 
ling. It often affects the joints so that they grow 
_ out ofshape. A cure is easily effected if timely and 
_ properly attended to, which must be done by such 
medicine as will casug perspiration and remove ob- 
tructions. In common cases taking the rheu- 
matic drops, and bathing the part affected with the 
same will remove the complaint. When the case is 
bad, carry them through a course of the medicine 
and bathe with the drops, repeating it as occasion: 
may require till cured. Atthe same time give a tea 
of poplar bark or hemlock boughs; and many other 
articles which have been described as good for this 
complaint, may also be made use of to advantage. 

The gout is from the same cause, and the stom- 
ach being greatly disordered, and very sour, which 
produces a burning sensation. Ihave cured seve- 


ages 


eli 
4, 4 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 151 


ral cases by the common course of medicine, and 
giving the bitters to restore the digestive powers.. 


py Sore Lips. 


They are common in very hot or cold weather, 
when there is nearly abalance of the power of out- 
ward andinward heat, or outward and inward cold, 
which produces canker. To cure it take a strong 
dose of a tea of No. 3, with a tea-spoonful of No. 2 
in it, when going to bed, and wash them with ‘the 
same, then wipe them dry to take offthe matter col- 
lected; then wet them again with the tea, and put on 
as much ginger as will stick, repeat the same again y 
for two or three times, till the coat is sufficient to 
keep out the air, whea this comes off repeat the 
same process again, until the soreness is gone, then | 
wash again with the tea, and wipe them dry, and, 
apply warm tallow till a cure is completed. 


Sore Eves. 


This is generally caused by being exposed to 
sudden changes of heat and cold, which produces Aug 
canker, and where this is there will be inflammation. 
There are many things good for this complaint; 
but the best that I have found is white pond lily 
root, marshrosemary, witch-hazZel and red raspber- 
ry leaves; make a strong tea with allor either, and» 
add one third as much of No. 6, witha little No: 2; 
bathe the eyes several times in a day; every morn- 
ing put your face in cold water, open and shut the 
eyes till well washed: repeat this till a cure is ef- 
fected. At the same time take the tea to clear the 


system of canker. — eh 


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152  — NEW GUIDE To nEALTH; 


HE AD ACHE. 


This pain proceeds from a foul stomach, the bile 
looses its powers, the food clogs by not being di4 
gested, and the effect is felt in the head, which is 
the fountain of sense. Sometimes there is sickness: 
at the stomach; when this happens itis called sick 
head ach, and whien they vomit the head is relieved! 
This proves that the cause is in the stomach. It 
. must be cured by cleansing the stomach and re-- 
storing the digestive powers. A ‘dose of composi-~ 
tion powders, sitting by the fire wr avped in a blank- 
et will generally give relies; but if it should not, take: 
a dose of No. 1, in a tea of No. 3, and take the: 
bitters to. correct the bile; No. 2, should also be: 
taken to warm the stomach, andif it is sour take 
the pearlash water. It is very fashionable with 
the doctors to tell about dropsy in the head, 
but, in this have no belief; for there is no dis- 

ease in the head but what progeeds from the stom- 
ach, except from external injury. If they under- 
stood the real cause and would give the proper me- 
dicine to remove it, there would be no difficulty in 
the head; but when achild is sick they give calo- 
mel end other poisons, which increases the dis- 
ease; and if they die it is laid to the dropsy in the 
head, and this is satisfactory because the doctor says 
$0. 


Corns. 


These come on the joints of the toes and are ve- 
ry troublesome. ‘They may be cured by soaking the 
foot in warm water till the corn is soft, shave it 
thin; take astrip of bladder or skin’ of suet, eight 
or ten inches long and half an inch wide, rub it till 
soft; then supple it well in rattle-snake’s' oil, or 
the nerve eretpents wrap it round the toe and keep 


snus) ‘if 
see 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 153 


it on till worn out; if this does not cure repeat the 
saine till the corn is removed. Ihave seldom known 
this to fail of a cure, 


VENERAL. _ 


The disease that is called by this name is more 
common in seaports than in the country, because 
there is more promiscuous and illicit intercourse of 
the sexes than in other places. Itis a high state of 
canker and putrefaction, which takes hold of the 
glands of those partsthat are first affected with it; 
and if not checked the whole system will become 
diseased by the venereal taint. It is more common 

mong seafaring men, because of their being long 
absent at.sea, and on coming on shore, they give 
free scope to their passions, without being very 
scrupulous about the manner of their indulgence. 
It originates probably withthose common women, 
who have connection with many different men, and 
going beyond the impulse of nature, this impure 
connection causes uncleanness, which produces the. 
disease, and when Seated is contagious. 

The reason why this Gisease causes so much 
fright and alarm, is owing to two causes; the first 
is the disgrace that is attached to the dishonesty in 
getting it; and the other is the manner in which it 
has generally been treated, in giving mercury to 
cure it, the remedy becomes worse than the disease. 
That this disorder cannot be cured by any other 
means is altogether an error; for I have cured a 
nuinber of cases by very simple means. The first 
symptoms felt is a scalding sensation and pain when 
voiding the urine; and within twenty-four hours 
after this is experienced, it may be cured in that time 
by applying cold water and making use of the rheu.— 
matic drops; ifthere is much soreness make use of a 


154 - NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


tea of No. 3, with the drops init; which must be tak- 
en as wellas applied to the parts. Ifthe disease has 
been of long standing, and the whole system has 
become affected, they must be carried through a 
course of the medicine. Where there has been 
murcury made use of, and there is all the attend- 
ant consequences of such: treatment, it is much 
more difficult to effect a cure; and is only done by a 
full eourse of medicine, and repeating it for a num- 
ber of times; raising the heat by steam each time 


‘as high as they can bear, to throw out the murcnry 


and remove the canker, at the same time applying 
the poultice; then give the bitters to correct the 


bile. 


* .~ [had a case of a woman who was brought to me 


ona bed fifteen miles. She was ina very putrid 

state, and as bad as she could well be, with all the 

consequences that are caused by being filled with 

mucury. Different doctors had attended her for 

eleven months and she had constantly been grow- 

ing worse. She had been kept ignorant of her dis- 

ease tilla few days before brought to me, on account 

of her husband. Icarried her through five courses of 

the medicine in two weeks and applied a poultice 

of white bread and ginger, made with the tea of No. 

3. This completely broke up the disorder, and by 

giving medicine to correct the bile and restore the: 
digestion, she was cured and returned home in 
three weeks after coming to me. By taking things | 
to restore her strength has enjoyed good health ev- 
er since. Another woman was cured in the same. 
manner, who had been in this way for six years, and | 
unable to do any business, [ attended her three’ 
weeks, when she was restored to health and return- 

edhome. In less than a year after she had two 

children at a birth, and hag enjoyed good health to: 
this dav, , / | ) 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 155 


This disease may be produced by other means 
than what have been described. It may be taken 
in with the breath by being much exposed in attend- 
ing on those who are ina very putrid stage of the 
complaint; or may be communicated to parts where 
the skin is broken, and in many other ways; when 
they will have many of the symtoms the game as 


when taken im the common way. Children will | 


Sometimes be affected with the venereal taint, whose 


é 


parents have had the disease. A disease similar: 


in appearance, with muchthe same Symptoms, may 
be brought on by overdoing and being exposed to- 
the cold. J once had a case of a young married 
mai, who, by straining himself from loading milk 
logs and being exposed to wet and cold caused 
weakness in the back and Joins, and he had what is: 
called a gleet, and an inflamation, with all the symp-- 
toms common inthevenereal. His wife became af-. 
fected in the same manner, and they continued in- 
this situation threé months, when I was. called to. 
attend them; and/ by making use of such things as 
I then had a knowledge of, to stregthen the loins. 
and remeve the canker, was able to cure hotly ina 
short time. ‘The man had all the syratoms. that 
appear in the venereal, except hard bunches in the 
rroins, called buboes. These I am satisfied are 
aused by murcury, for I never knew :any to have 
hem except they had taken mureury, By syring- 
ng with murcury and sugar of lead, dricsgthe glands 
nd contracts the passage, and stops the discharge, 
yhen the putrid matter instead of going: off, collects 
a the groin and forms hard tumour: 4, which re- 
lain a long time and have to be brou ght toa head 
) let off the putrid matter. Bunche: 3 of a similar 
nd often come on different parts | of the body 
used by murcury. oe } | hg aaa a ce 
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eed 


Mach more might be written on this subject, b 
itis difficult to find proper terms to convey all tk 
directions that may be necess sary inall cases. J] 


nough has been said to give to those who are so U) 


fortunate as have the disease, a general knowled: 
of the nature of the complaint and the best ma: 
ner of effecting a cure; and to those who are fc 
tunate enongh to escape it, any thing further w 
be unnecessary. Those who purchase a right, 
who may apply for assistauce, will have such ve 
bal directions as will enable them to effect a cu 
in all cases of the venereal by a safe and simy 
method of treatment. 


— 


~MipwWirery. f 


This i is a very difficult subject to write upon, a 
know ofno words that would be proper to make v 
of, to convey the necessary inf ormation to ene 
a person to attempt the practice with safety. 1 
great importance of the subject, however, ind 
me not.to be silent; and I shall endeavor to m: 
known to the public such thoughts and conclusi: 
as long expepience and much solicitude has enall 
me to. form, concerning those who are suffer 


and are constantly lial ae to suffer frony the error 


ousand most unnatural practice of the present ¢ 
The practice of midwifery at this time, appe 


to be altogether a matter of speculation with 


medical faculty, by their exorbitant price for atte 
anc a The tax on the poor class is very heavy; 
this i is not the greatest grievauce that they have 
bear, for they are often deprived of their wives 
children, by sachignor ant and unnatural pee 
is very common hrall parts of the country. 
Thirty years ago.the practice of midwifery» 
principally io the hands of paola ee wor 


OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 157 


who had no difficulty; and there was scarce an in- 
stance known in those days of a woman's s dying in 
child bed, and it was very uncommon for them to 
loose the child; but at the present time, these things 
are so common that itis hardly talked about. i Shere 
must be some cause for this difference, and I can- 
not account for it in any other way than the unskil- 
ful treatment they page ience from the doctors, who 
have now got most of the practice into their own 
hands.. In the country where I was born, and 
where [| brought no a family of children, es Way 
no such a thing thought of as calling the assistance 
of a doctor; a midwife was all that was thought 
necessary, and the instances were very rare that 
they were not successful, for they used no art, but 
afforded such ussistance as nature required; gave. 
herb tea to keep them in a perspiration and to. quiet 
the nerves. ‘Their price was one dollar; when the 
doctors began to practice uidwifery in the country, 
their price was three dollars, but they soon after 
raised to five, and now they charge from twelve to 
twenty dollars. Ii they go on in “this ratio, it will 
soon take all the people can earn to pay for their 
children. 

All the valuable instruction Lever received, was 
from a woman in the town where I lived; who had 
practiced as a midwife for twenty years: in an in- 
terview of about twenty minutes, she gave me more 
‘usefal instruction than all I ever zained from any 
other source. I have practiced considerably i in this 
line and have always had very good success. It is 
very important to keep up the strength of women 
ina state pregnancy, so that at the tie of delivery 
ps may be in possession of all their natural pow- 

s; they should be carried through acourse of the 
Medes: several times, particularly a little before 
~ delivery, and keep thera in a perspiration during, 


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158 NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH ; 


and after delivery, which will prevent after pains anc 
other complaints common in such cases. Beware 
of bleeding, opium, fand cold baths; invigorate ail 
the faculties of the body and mind, to exert the most 
laborious efforts that nature is called upon to per-~ 
form, instead of stupifying and substituting art for 
nature. J will relate a cese that I was knowing to,, 


which will give a pretty fair view of the’ practice of 


the doctors, A woman was taken in travail and the: 
midwife could not come, a doctor was sent for; : 
when he came, the prospect was that she would be- 
delivered in two hours; he gave her soine medicine | 
which caused vomiting and turned the pains to the 
stomach—she continued in this situation for twelve 
hours, when her strength was nearly gone; he then 
bled her, and to stop the puking, gave so much opi- 
um, as to cause sucha stupor that it required all the 
exertions of the wowen to keep the breath of life in 
her through the night; she remaimed very weak, and 
continued so till afternoon, when she was delivered 
with instruments. The child was dead and the 
woman came very near dying, and It was six months 
before she got her strength again, Many more 


" cases. might be given of the bad success of bleeding 


and giving opium to stupify, and making use of art, | 
instead of assisting nature to do herown work, 

I have given instruction to several who have 
bought the right, and their practice has been at-. 
tended with complete success. Many men that I 
have given the information to, have since attended 
their own wives, and I have never known an in- 
stance of any bad consequences; and if young mar- 
ried men would adopt the same course, it would be. 
much more proper and safe, than to trust their 
wives in the hands of young inexperienced doctors, 
who have little knowledge except what. they get 
from buoks, and their practice is to try experiments; | 


oR, BOTANIU FAMILY PHYSICIAN. 159 


» their cruel and harsh treatment in many instances 
would induce the husband to throw them out of 
the window if permitted to be present; but this 
is not allowed, for the very same reason. ge 

All who purchase the right may receive the ne- 
cessary Verbal instruction to enable them to do all 
that is required in the practice of midwifery; as 
well as to be able to become their own physician 
and surgeon, at a trifling expense. ‘an 


} 


Since the doctors have taken the Jead in midwife- 
ry and have substituted art instead of nature, bleed 
and stupify their patients instead of warming and 
strengthening them; giving poisonous physic in- 
stead of nourising food, fatal and distressing con- 
sequences have become very common in all parts of 
the country. Those women who survive their un- 
natural practice, are so injured by it, that they drag 
ont the remainder of their lives in pain and tor- 
ment. — Z mee 

I shall now proceed to give a little advice to young 
married people. My young friends, I am now advan- 
ced in life and have seen much of the evils arising 
from the present mode of practice in midwifery by 
the faculty. Ihave brought up a family of eight chil- 
dren, and in the first part of the time of my hav- 
ing a family, I was ignorant of what was best, and 
heard to the advice of those older, tll Ihad some 
of my family,given over by the doctors six times; 
when { was obliged to depend on my own judgment 
and relieved them in every instance. After this I 
dropped all professional doctors, and was guided by 
my own judgment only, by which 1 formed my theo- 
ry and practice of medicine, and also of midwifery. 

My advice tomy young female friends is, to be 
careful and preserve your health while you have it; 


and guard against losing heat, or what is common- - 


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om dabove, stain ‘over steam 
as made by puttin ho stones i ina pan, with hot water. 
in it enough. to half ‘cover the. stone, until you sweet 
freely, and, the. pain is gone; be ‘eareful to keep 
warm after. it, ‘by. going ‘to ‘hei with a) hot ie at the 
feet. ‘as before recommended. ee Cea 

When near the ie of. delivery, if you do not 
keep warm there will be | ubtimely pains, lich” are |, 
caused by ¢old; you wilh, ee 


help and then get, 
about again; this 1 is called’a | larip. Tn cases 


of this kind: to. prove the Tyee as. to time, take fasp- 
berry leaves, if you have them, if not, eliber ‘of the 
articles described. under No, 8, stec ped strong, 


pour 
off a gill of this ea hs add a easpoonful of. gin- 
ger, or some No. 2; take this ina ed. acres 
witha blanket by itie ‘they 


me and if the time is. not fully cc the pai 
will abate; but af it is | il raise the power 
we of nature abd hasten the. Call any wom- 
‘en who have had children, d their aid will be far 
better than'to have’ a doctor to stupify with opium, 
and then take the child ee force, If the women are 
afraid to do what natuxe e requires, let your husb 

exercise his own. judgment; for who can be more 
suitable than he to. assist: you. When the child ig 
born any woman can direct how to regulate and do. 
the rest. If there is not sufficient relaxations to 


ar 


> 


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OR, BOTANIC FAMILY PHYSICIAN, 16i 


clear you; apply the steam as before directed; and 
when the warmth has relaxed the muscles, nature 
will do her own work. If there should be too much 
discharge so as to create alarm, use the hottest me- 
dicine you have, and produce perspiration as soon 
as possible, when all those effects will cease. Bya 
strict observance of these hints, you may save your 
lives, and those of your children, and the heavy tax 
of the doctor. 

One of my Agents whose wife among many oth- 
ers has suffered every thing but death from the old 
practice, lately gave me an account of their experi- 
ence upon this subject, the substance of which is” 
this, that formerly, premature pains were for months 
continually tormenting her; now she feels them not; 
her labour was long and excessively painful, requir- 
ing the assistance of many; now, when the time ar- 
rives, the children are permitted to visit a neigh- 
our, NO assistance is asked, the door is locked, (as 

they live ina large village,) for perhaps two hours, by 
which time the woman is comfortable in bed, with 
the child at the breast, and every thing is in readi- 
hess to receive those friends who may please to 
call; all this is accomplished without any assistance 
other than what the husband renders, and scarce 
Sufficient pain to extort one solitary groan; no fear 
of after-pains, which formerly have fully equalled 
those that precede delivery; no fear of a womb fe- 
ver, by which she has formerly came near her 
grave, no fear of taking freely of good nourishing 
food and warm drinks, for experience has taught 
them that nature requires what. the legal doctors 
forbid.* A very few days and the woman is as Ca- 


*In order to show to what a high pitch of refinement the 
science of medicine has arrived, I will quote a paragraph 
from the “American Lancet? (late the Medical Enquirer) 

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pable of attending to her ordinary concerns as ever. 
All this is ridiculed by the doctors, and laughed at 
by their dupes, nevertheless, where people take the 
trouble to get correct information, they find them to 
be facts, and facts are stubborn things. 

There is another perniciotss and very dangerous 
practice of the doctors, which is in the administer- 
ing to laying-in women what is called ergot, (spur- 
red rye,) to hasten’ delivery. The effect of it is 
similar to that of mercury taken inwardly, or the 
mercurial ointment applied externally; it destroys 
the elastic powerof the muscles to such a degrec, 


that they never regain their natural tone. ‘The con- 
sequence of such treatment often proves fatal, and 


Vol. I, No 1,—Advertisement—“If we take a retrospective 

view of the science of medicine with its alterations and am- 

provements in the last two centuries, the’ médical annals of | 
this period will present us with a series of léarned disserta- 

tions by authors whose names alone are now remembered, , 
while their wrirings, under the specious term improvement, | 
have left usonly the deplorable consolation of knewing that ! 
their works have heaped system upon system, prescript ups’ 
on prescript, error upon error, each in itsturn yielding to its) 
follower. Year after year produces a new advocate for a: 
new theory of diseases, each condemning its predecessor, and | 
gach alike to be condemned by its successor. We wish a! 
more rational mode adopted for the promotion of medical | 


knowledge, than hair brained. theories and doubtful facts. 


Observation, practice, and experience in the administration of! 
medicine. with its effects on the system, may take the lead of 
scholastic lzarning and hard names. We must have facts: 
instead of opinions, reason instead of theory, knowledge in-- 
stead of titles and certificates.” 

If such has been the zmprovements for “‘the last two cen- 
tuties,”” (of which there is no reason to doubt,) it is not to be 
wondered at, that they should stand in absolute need of the 
strong arm of the civil law to sustain them. 


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those whe survive never entirely recover frona its 
injurious effect, many continoe to suffer for a few 
years in a miserable condition. I therefore caution 
all females to beware of those who make use of this 
dangerous article, as they would value their lives 
and health, for nothing but evil can ever arise from 
taking it. This article appears to be a wonderful 
production of nature, being caused by a false con- 
ception in the head of the rye, and becomes a veg- 
etable monster, partaking of no part of*the nature and 
qualities of that nourishing grain; but is in fact a 
poisonous substance of the most dangerous kind. 
Reduce some of it to fine powder, mixing it with: 
sweetened milk, and place it where flies can get at 
it, on eating itthey will immediately die. It is fre- 
quently used by the people in the country in the 
above manner to destroy flies. 

My object in communicating the foregoing re- 
marks on midwifery, has been more for the purpose 
of cautioning those who are the most interested dy 
the subject, particular females, against the danger- 
ous mode of treatment by the doctors, than to give 
any particular directions for the practice. i 

I have it in contemplation to prepare and publish, 
as soon as I can get cime to attend to il, a short trea- 
tise on midwifery, together with a general view of 
all complaints common to females, with directions 
how they should be treated; for the use of those Oh- 
ly who have family rights and will make a~proper 
use Of it. 

SAMUEL THOMSON, 


INDEX. 


Page 
Ague in the face 132 
American Valerian — ; 78 
Archangel . 92 
' Balm of Gilead Si 
Balsam of Fir 86 
Bayberry 65 
Black pepper 64 
Bitter herb 71 
Bitter root 73 
Bitter sweet 82 
Birch bark 85 
Bitter thistle 91 
Bitters 71 
Bleeding ; 129 
Bile (see No. 4.) 
Bilious cholic 147 
Burdock 83 
Butternut 88 
Burns is 117 
Bones how set 132 
Barberry 72 
- Camphor 58—94 
Cayenne 78 
Canker sores 121 
Cancers : 124 
Cancer plaster 101 
Cancer sores ‘ 124 
Chamomile * he. Oe 
Cherry stones ‘ ek 
Clivers 84 
Composition Powders a 93 
Cough 6 "4 100 
Chicken bioth 112 
Consumption 144 


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Cough 137, 
Counter poison (see No. 1.) 
Course of medicine 20--95 
Corns _ 152 
Description of diseases 114 
Directions for preparing vegetable medicines 93 
Drowned persons 109 
Dropsy  *'146 
Dysentary 143 
Elecampane 81 
Elim bark 85 
Emetic herb 45—93 
Evan root vy 85 
Featherfew t 84 
Felons : i 
Fevers e ] 
Fits “ = 145 
Fever and ague 17 
Freezes | HS 
Gensang 86 
General directions ; 106 
Gravel : 146 
_ Ginger , 64 
Golden seal : 74. 
Gout 47150 
Golden rod ‘ 89 
~ Headach 152 
Hemlock bark 67 
Hoarhound ' é 81 
Injections. 103 
Introduction 5 


Internal heat (see No. 2.) 


166 


Page. 
Itch , 77—-90 
Jaundice : 138 
Ladies? slippoy _ 78 
Lock jaw 55 
Lily 100t te! eee: 
Measles 135 
Marshrosemary 68 
Mayweed 81 
Milk porridge 112 
Myrrh ; 
Mullen 
Mustard 87 
Meadow fern 90 
Mortification of limbs 119 
Muscles, how relaxed 139 
Mad dog (see No, 1) 
Midwifery | 156 
Nerve powder il 78 
Preparation of do 99 
Nervine (see Nerve powder) 
Nettle spring 145 
Nerve ointment 102 
No. 1. emetic herb, description of 45 
Preparation of do 93 
No. 2. Cayenne, description of 58 
Preparation ofdo 94 
No. 3. To remove canker, description of articles 
that purpose i hy 
_ Preparation of do - 94 
No. 4. Bitters to correct the bile, description of 
Preparation of articles used for that purpose wl 


No. 5. Syrup for the dysentary, description of 
the articles used 74 
Preparation of do 

No. 6. Rheumatic drops, description of arti¢les 
used 98 

. Preparation of do 


Peach meats 
reppermint 
Pennyroyal 
Pipsisway 
Pleurisy 

Poisons 

Poisons by ivy, Ke. 
Poplar bark ¥ 
Prickly ash 
Poultice 

Piles | 


Remarks on fevers 
Relax 

Red peppers 

Red Raspberry 
Rheumatism 
Rheumatic drops 
Rheumatic Weed 
Ruptures fm 


Salve 

Scalds 

Scalt head 

Sinall pox 

Sore lips 

Sore eyes 

Sore breast 
Skunk cabbage 
Slippery elm bark 
Snake root 
Steaming: 
Sumach 

Squaw weed 
Spirits of turpentine 
Spearmint 
Summersavory 


Syrup 


Strengthening plaster 


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Stock of medicine 
St. Anthony’s fire 
Strangury 

Surfeit 


Tansy 
‘Thoroughwort 


Umbil, (see Nerve Powder) 


Venereal 

Volatile salts 

Vegetable powder 

Vervine—white and blue 

Vegetable medicine—description of 


Witch hazle 
Wormwood 
Wakerobin 
White pond lily 


Yellow dock 


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As an introduction to what I have further to say 


on the subjec st of mi ifery, the above may answer 


ase te Kts from y which, I have only to observe, that. 
had this important. ranch been~ preserved im its 
Fi plicit attended only by women, as it seems to 
ehi in the ‘days of the ancient Egyptians, 
He yews, were slaves under Pharaoh, 
Bord red the midwives to kill all. the ae 
brew aletohildren at. their birth, women might 
still have been delivered with as little trouble to 
EPs. midwives, and. as little pain to themselves, 
from “the’ account pt. seppears f they were then. 
bs. as acover to their humanity, and to escaj e 
sede ot the king, the eke ail 
ed themselves for not killing the male children 
on the account of the liveliness of the Hebrew 
~ women. Ph a those women had had _the doctors oft 
~ the present day, yee pincers, P raoh would > 
‘a d less cau: fa issued his decree to kill _ 
the ‘male childr ren, as many might have been killed 
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were r ile or forjale: Has the. nature ars womer 
altered, which makes the mode. of having’ children: 
80 much more difficult and mysterious now than it 
was then? or is it. the: speculation of the doctors: 
for the sake of robbing the people of twenty dollars: 
the regular tribute here, for each child bora? And 
“should the child be born,”: ortunately for the mother 
and child both, before the arrival of the doctor, he 
even. then, instead of the prige of 4 common visit’ 
considers himself entitled to ahalf fee; that is, ter 
dollars. In all this, you may see the: mystery of ini- 
quity. Then dismiss the doctor; restore the busi- 
“ness into the hands of women, where it belongs: 
and save your wife from much unnecessary pain) 
your children, perhaps, from death, and at all events 
your money, for better purposes. Then will youn 
_ehildren be born naturally, as fruit falls fob, the 
-* * tree, when ripe, of itself. 
From this source, the doctors and. their j pincers: 
: “may be traced the miserable health of women, unas 
ble to stand on their feet for weeks and months, anc 
never finally Tecover; all caused by those horrid ing 
struments of steel, to extend the passage not. only 
for the child, but for the i instruments also. In this 
harsh and unnatural operation, they often not only 
Aecels the head . of the’ child, but also the neck : 0: 
the bladder. After this. there i is an involunt ary, dis: 
_ charge of the urine; bearing down pains, 30 
much that life becomes an intolerable burden Ww 
out remedy. “Can any one believe there was 
an instance of this kind among the Hebrew womet 
wliere midwives ely, were ioe, Or ‘Lae natu ure 


oe ee Racers among. the natives of this” ci juntry 
where nature is their only dependene a Y Ory 
gives us an account of their squaws having a pap: 
poos at night, ane wat Ne oa Tg dale” lay 


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when driven by Christians in warfare; and by thesim- 
ple use of taking the unicorn root, they would prevent 
themselves from taking cold. If all these views 


of the subject, what hasbeen stated in the body of 
this work, and what is here to follow, be not satis- — 


factory, neither would people be persuaded though 
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on this impertant subject, I shall endeayor in this 


supplement to give. some further instructions, by re-- 


lating several important cases, and their mode of 
treatment, which have occurred since my last edi- 
tion was published. ‘ pe ee 
tn addition to the bad practice of the doctors, a 

. before related, I will state another-case of which I 


_was an eye witness. My brother's wife, about thirty _ 
_, yearsold, was in travail with her first child.. The . 
. midwife called on me for advice, on account of a oe 


_ violentflooding, which I immediately relieved by the 


hot medicine; at the same time, some people present, _ 
privately sent for a doctor. When he came, I told 


him there was no difficulty, and all that was want- 
_ ing was time. After examination, he said the 
_ woman had been well treated. 
- ¢ommand, and very soon began to use too much ex- 


_ The doctor persisted in this harsh treatment for 
- about seven hours, occasionally ttying to put on his 
_imstriments of torture. This painful attempt caus. 
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_ ertion. Ile was cautioned by the midwife; but he 
showed temper, and said, “Why did you send for 
_ Ine, if you know best.” Ltold him he wasnotsent 
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child drew back. After making several unsuccess- 


ful attempts, got himself tired out; he asked me-to 
examine her situation.. I did so, and told him that . 
the child was not, so far advanced as when he came. 
He asked me toattend her. J refused the offer; and | 
told him he pronounced the woman well treated 
when he came; but she bad not been so treated 
since, and J was not liable to-bear the blame. He 
then sent for another doctor, and%ether alone till 
the other doctor came, in which time natexehad done 
much in advancing her labour. The doctors were 
astonished at her strength, in its thus holding out; 
and Lnow firmly believe that with the use of the med- 
icine which had been given her, and which ought to 
have been continued, nature would have completed 
her delivery. The-second doctor did but little more 
than to say the instruments could now be put on; 
which shows how far nature had completed her work. 


The first doctor put on the instruments of death, 


and delivered her by force; using strength enough 
to have drawna hundred{weight!,/husthe child was, 
as I should call it, murdered; the head crushed, and 


the doctor put it ina tub of cold water twice; an ap- 


plication, one would have supposed, sufficient to kill 


‘it, had it been well! !\ 


The woman flooded, like the ruming of water, SC 
asto be heard by all in the room. The doctor called 


for cold water to put onas soon as possible. Ttoldthe 
doctor that he need not trouble himself any further 
~~ about the woman, I would take care of her. I gave: 


her a spoonful of fine hayberry,cayenneand drops; got 
her into hed as soon as possible; the alarming situa- 
tion soon abated; but. her senses were gone, and het 

_F repeated the 
dose with the addition of nerve sowder. I put a. 
hot stone, wrapped Sirelith<secpieieinect, a 


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- got warm. Then her nerves became more composed. 
When the doctor left her, he said there was a doubt 
whether she lived over twelve hours. At that time 
she was so swollen as to stopall evacuations, besides 
other injuries she had received by the use of force 
instead of aid. ‘The midwife used her best endeav- 
ors to promote a natural discharge, but in vain. But, 

_ when all other sources fail, then comes my turn. I 

“ gucceeded, and saved her from mortification, The 
second day carried her through a course of medi- 
cine; steaming her in bed; for she was as helpless 
as though all her bones had been broken. ~ a tha 2S 
way she could be turned was to draw her on the 
under sheet, and so turn her that way. After the sec- 
ond course, she begantohelp herselfa little. Iwas 
with her most of the time for five days and nights. 
T then left her, with medicines and directions, and 
she gained her health in about two months. I 
‘gave them directions how to proceed in case she 
should’be in the like situation again. She had anoth- 
er child in about two years; the child lived and both 
did well, by keeping away the doctor, as Lam satis-_ 
fied would have been the case the first time, had 

-thisscourge of Humanity-been keptaway. = 
[have been more particular in relating this case, — 
than I otherwise should have been, had I not been 
aneye witness to all the facts which I have stated, 
which I could not have believed had I not seen them; 

_- and-had it been at my own house, I think’I should 

e Spot have waited fora door, but have pitched 1 he 

‘monster out at the window. Yet I have reason to 

believe that this is only ‘a-sample‘of the general - 

practice where nature moves slowly. The ergot — 


or rye spur, which isa very improper medicine, was 
_ also frequently given in this case; but itought tobe 
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_ Another instance happened in the country, very 
recently, only about six weeks since, where the 
doctor was with a young woman in travail, who had 
fits. The doctor bled her and took away her child 
dead by force. The woman is still in a poor state 
of health. What could we expect otherwise, where 
learned men forbid the laws of nature to take their: 
course, take the blood, ‘“‘which is the life,” to ena- 
ble women to go through the most laborious task 
which nature is called on to perform? Consider of 
these things, my friends and govern yourselves ac- 
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Now let me exhibit the other side of the picture. 
Twas called upon to attend a young woman in child- 
bed, about four weeks ago, eighty miles in the couns 
try. LT attended. - She had been sick, and sent for _ 
help, before I arrived, and had got about again: 
About one week after, she was taken again, with — 
every appearance that she would be delivered soon. 
In about six hours the pains all flatted away;she 
grew pale and dull in spirits, and the motion of the 

child had nearly ccased. She had laboured hard 
and got cold, and had a bad cough; and the moisture 
of the glands wasso thickened, that she‘ could not. 
spit clear of her mouth. I saw there was no use 
- in any further delay. On Thursday I carried her ~ 
through a thorough course of medicine, and steams 
ed her twice in the course of the day, and then let — 
er rest. About the same time she was taken the — 
night béfore, to wit, about eleven o’clock, her pains — 
‘were regular, her animation and vigor returned, a — 
fine son was born about 8 o’clock, she walked from - 
the fire to the bed,;a portion of coffee and cayenne — 
was administered, and a steaming. stone put to] er > 
feet. As soon as her perspiration wag, free, all af 


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ter-pains died, and there were none of those 
alarming symptoms common to learned ignorance. 
The second day she showed symptoms of a child bed - 
fever and broken breasts. I carried her through a- — 
another course of medicine and steam. The fifth 
_ day she took breakfast’ and dinner below with the 
- family, and carried her child up stairs. ‘The eighth 
day she rode out. two miles, paid a visit and came 
‘back. -On the ninth day, I carried her through 
another course of medicine, and got her so far clear- 
ed, that she could spit clear af her mouth for the 
first time after I saw her. On the tenth day, she 
rode the same distance; and I have no doubt that, 
had she been attended in the common way, she 
would have had the child-bed fever, broken breasts, 
and a poor health afterwards. 

This case caused much conversation. Why sot? - 
It was the.different mode of treatment, reversing 
every mode commonly atten ie o. What shall 
we do? say the people, we shall never dare to em- 
ploy adoctor again. I eee Call the doctor: 
and obtain his advice; and. then reverse every pre- 
scription given by him in hae of child-be dee: f 
he tells you to have a doctor, havea midwife, If 
he eae she bled,”’ keep’ cur blood for other us- 
es. If he says, “keep. ourself cold,’ sweat your- 
self, Tf he a put eae on your sg 3 
take hot medicine inside, and a ste mige stone at 
“your feet. If he says, “take: ] physic,” ui 
injections. If he says, “stary oursel 
your appetite craves. By strict of 
the foregoing anti- directions, you may enjoy your 
health, and save the heavy bill for the y Mais oe 
~ the doctor, besides saving him from thee the le of 
_ -keepi you sick. This 3 is the mode of having pat- 

ab so highly recommended by Dr. Robine 
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bed delivery, a matter never to be forgotten, thi 
practice has very nearly removed the pain and pun- 
-ishment from the daughters of Eve, threatened upon! 
- our progenitor and entailed upon her offspring.. Ai 
_ lady of good sense, and without the least colouring? 
_. of imagination, said it was easier to have five chil-- 
_. dren under the operation and influence of this new’ 
_ practice, than one by the other mangement and medi- - 
eine. -And she had had experience in both cases, 


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one who has followed-her example.” ~~ . 
This extract speakes volumes in favor of the treat- 
ment in the last namedcase. -, 

The following case of midwifery I shall mention, 
with the mode of treatment, for the purpose of giv- 
ing instruction to others. __ ee “a 

_ I was called to visit a woman in Greenfield, Sara- 
toga county, New York, who-had been in travail ten. 
days, and her life despaired of. I think there were 
not less than ten men and women presént, and the 
- seal of despair was set upon each one’s countenance. 
__.~ "The woman in a low voice said, “I cannot see what 
_ canbe the use of awoman’s undergoing the distress 

T have for ten days, and die after all, as two sisters 

of mine have done in a similar case but a short time 

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T took a large teaspoonful of brown emetic, and hav- 
ing poured of the tea into another cup, stired inthe 
powder, and handed it to the woman, who swallow~ 
ed it, apparently with all possible faith'that it would _- 
help her. I called for assistance, to regulate the 
~ bed and other things, which were in disorder about 
~ the room, a8 soon as possible. Everyattention was — 
paid, the medicine roused the efforts of nature,so 
that the woman was in readiness before we were.’ — 
This called all to her assistance; the desired object 
was attained in less than fifteen minutes after taking 
this friend of nature; a fine son was born alive, and 
the woman comfortable and able with steadying, to 
walk from the fire to the bed, to the great joy of all 
present. The gloomy.veil of despair was raised 
from the countenance of all, and they heartily par- 
_ took of the joy and thankfulness of the woman and- 
family; insomuch that some of the women present; 
_ declared that they would never have any other chil- 
dren but patent ones hereafter, ele rae 
_ . One of my agents, Joseph Michell, went with me; 
and we returned in the space of .two hours, in a vio- 
lent snow storm. He declared that expedition was’ 
worth one hundred dollars to the society. The next 
day, the husband came, and purchased the right, 
with instruction on midwifery; and has attended his « 
wife twice since, with unusual success. One of my 
agents says he has frequently heard the woman re- 


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This woman I agreed to be with when confined, 

which was expected in about three weeks. I went 

tosce my son, about 130 miles. While there, I 
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» felland broke two of my ribs. Thad a violent cough 
and almost lost my life. I did not return short of 
about six weeks, and then ina very poor state of 


health. J arrived at the house about 11 o’clock at 


night. ‘The woman was then in travail. She said | 


she had waited for me’ three weeks. The midwife 


 gaid the waters had been discharged three days, and 


the woman was ina. low and lingering state, of- 


. ten wishing forme. I went to bed that night, but 


did not sleep much, on account of the distress of 


. the woman, anc noise of the moving in the house. Tt 


was solicited about noon the next day, by the hus- 


_ bandand wife, her f father and mother, my agent and 


and his wife, with an earnest - desire to attend the 
woman, as her mind was set on my attention. I 
reluctantly consented, as I was weak in body and 
mind, and hardly. able to undergo the anxiety. and 


responsibility of so difficult a case. I however 


agreed to do the best Iecould. I prepared a dose 
similar to that mentioned in the foregoing case.- It. 
soon had the desired effect, by rousing the system to 


‘action. I delivered her in about half an. hour. 
But the child was apparently dead. Istook the pla- 


centa, or after-birth, with the child; the grand. 


mother being seated in the corner, she placed the 


~-after-birth on a bed of embers, while rublang the 
child; and as‘soon as the substance on the coals had 


gained warmth enough to. fill the umbilical cord with 
warmth and moisture; it was stripped towards the - 
body of the child, and so continued untila sufficient ° 
degree of warmth through this medium was con- 
veyed into the body of the child, as to. expand the 
lungs, which was effected in about fifteen or twenty * 
minutes; then the string was separated “in usual 
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life, as it is manifest in the present case. There 


was no other possible way of communicating heat — rs 


to the, vitals, except thr ough that channel or stem — 
which had supported the growth of the child to that. 


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time, the same as any vegetable fruit is supporte as 


from the vine or tree by the stem. If the vine 
cut off, or pulled up, the fruit will wither and die. 
Now what wasthe cause of the death of this child? 


Recollect the fore part of this statement. ~The Wate ‘ 


er had been discharged three days. A 
the child had been starving, the | sa ne as the fruit 


ll that time — 


loses its support when the vine is cut. But by rais- | 


ing artificial heat, through the pl placenta and umbili- 
cal cord, ‘by putting the former on the embers, and 
conveying the heat to the body of the child, through 
‘the medium of the latter, it gave the child one more 
meal, which roused it into action, and which 
Was to last till the next means nature has provided _ 
an be obtained. Before the child is born, it is sup- 
ported by this stem from the mother internally; af- 
ter birth, from the breast of the mother externally. 
This’ food supports the child, till he can eat more 


solid food, and thus no longer need the breast. a 


Now the attention of themother, Cae 
May be employed to have another; “4 oa 


And so goon with all the rest, 
Your house be fill?d w ith children bless’d, ie: 


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About two years ago, ‘I was called on by one 
of my agents, at Eastport, Me. who appeared to be 
much alarmed, and requested me to go with him to 
Visit a woman. ‘with whom hehad.b ore iitiehi, and 
could give her no relief. She had flowed so much 

that she lay fainted away, more than half the time, 
and then, the rest part of the time she was puking. 
I asked him if she —* a preguant ec He 


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-.  thoughtnot. Tanswered, I thought it must be the 
ease. I went with him; and onthe way, asked him 
if he had given Keran emetic! Hehadnot. If he 
~ “had used aninjection? No, he did not think it would 
answer. Not answer! What is your medicine 
_ good for, if it is not a friend in the. most alarming 
case? When ‘entering the house, the man said, 
“My wife has been fainted away more than half the | 
time since you left, and the rest of the time she has) 
“been puking.”? I directed my agent to go after hig) 
syringe. The first thing I could find warm was! 
e some wormwood tea. I took some ina cup, and. 
added some cayenne, nerve powder,and emetic herb | 
‘sweetened, as heretofore directed. Shetookit. I 
then steeped one pint of coffee, andhad time togive} 
her about one glass, with a requisite portion of the! 
same articles as before, when the syringe arrived. , 
I then prepared about a gill of this liquid, and.ad- - 
“ded the same portion of the articles taken, and | 
 scharged the syringe with it, and ordered the nurse: 
 toadmister it. I, with my agent, left the room for: 
the space of about ten. minutes, when we were ¢al-. 
led in, and found the nurse much surprised at the | 
discharge. ‘The like was never seen by any one: 
present. The appearance was like a hog’s heart: 
secured ina membrane. ‘The people were at a loss! 
 -whatto call it. My agent was of opinion that there: 
was some human shapé¢ in it. Isaid no. To satisfy: 
himself, he opened it with his knife, and found it} 
solid flesh. Itold himthat it was.a false concep-. 
tion, and void of human shape. I then.repeated the: 
dose as before given, and repeated the injection ini 
usual form, which cleared her of all: disorder, amd | 
set nature at liberty. All flowing, puking, and! 
fainting ceased from the first application I made,. 
The woman soon got well, and in less than a year had! 
a fine son, and her health remains good, Manyy 


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thanks were given me by the family, believing as 
they said, that what I had administered to the wom we 
an, together-with what I prescribed, had saved her _ 
life. Ps Eat ee ee 
I shall close this subject witha few briefremarks. 
~The foregoing cases I have described forthe pur- 
posé of showing the difference between forcing 
nature, and aidmg and assisting her. They are_ 
two theories, directly opposed to. each other, and 
_. can never harmonise together. As soon as learned — 

_ ignorance begins to use force to extend the passage, 
the child ceases from its natural progression “and 
draws back; as nature shrinks from all. such opera- 

_ tions, and force must then do the whole; and if the 
child should be caught by optics the dog 
catches his game, it will be likely to share the same 
fate, as in the case first mentioned. Ishallnot fol- 
low up the simile, by comparing the doctortoadog, 
though it might be made avery striking one. Is 
not this the cause of many women lingering out a 

* miserable existence in pain and torment, are often = __ 
heard to say, “J have never been well since my last 4 
child was born, I wasin the hands of the doctor 


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three days, and at last was delivered with. instru-— 
~ ments.. Idid not stand.on my feet for six weeks, 
and have never regained my health.” Yet the doc- 
tor is looked uponas her benefactor, and is thank- 
ed for saving her life. Query. Were these evil 
consequences ever known where nature did her own 
ms Work, aitt the child born before the doctor could get 
there? Inall my practice, [never knew an instance 
where the woman could not stand upon her feet the 
same day. Nor have I ever heard of a single in- 
stance where nature had been assisted according to- 
my practice by others, where the patient was not 
able to bear her weight the same day, of her delivery. 
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tended according tonature and those attended secune 
dum artem, aecording to art, I shall leave the reader 
‘to decide forhimself. : 
Another evil in this branch, which T shat men- 
tion here, and of which women have generally either _ 
felt or heard, is that of, taking the after-birth by 
force. The doctor says, “It has grown fast to t 16 
side; and tears it olf, so as to be heard by those. 
present. Alarming, if not fatal consequences ar re 
the result. The question is, what other way can be 
done? Answer, The same as in taking the child 
Apsist nature, instead of forcing it. The only 
given by me, to those who wish to attend the 
wives, or others, i is simply this, After the : string is 
: “separated. from the child, be. careful not to lose it, 
eck by letting it draw back, as this is the on 
sles guide to “the placenta. Take the string b 
the thumb and nger of {the left: hand} drawing it 
4 --Rtraight, while haying the same between the thumb 
and finger of the tight hand, ~ slipping it forward. 
~ until you find the solid part to” which the string ig. 
attached. Take a steady pull when thepain is on. 
After afew seconds, it will Ragin togive way, turn 
ing inside out as turning the “lining to the sleeva 
of a coat, ‘But if it stick fast, take carenot to break 
the string, as if you do, you lose your guide. Keep 
. the opat well fed with hot medicine, to prevent 
ss flooding. ‘Then carry her through a course of medi-_ 
a) eine; and when the system is slackened, it will of 
ten come of itself, 1 would prefer having it remain 
till it discharges itself, according to nature, as it cer. 
tainly will. in time, thanto be taken away by force, as 
¥ have seen done. The danger is far less. But 
I never knew acase of the kind where the wom- 
an had been sufficiently cleared by the medicine 
near the time ofther delivery. I knew one instane 
where the woman had been treated b fi neon this. 
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run away as fast ae collected, The doctors had s 


injured her, that 


ee next one she was attended by my direction, and 
“carried through, I think, thirteen courses of medi- 


cine before delivery. I attended her. She wag. 


; sick but about two hours; was delivered and cleared 
cs without any sifficulty, and both she and her child did 


Ay There are as great errors: committed in usin 
2 force for the af er- birth; i ie child. sees in- 
imation au 


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een Pees TmidPane meee who know Toki im 
lowing the. umbilical cord for: their 
ceed inward, where they have ica oe 


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ar often commit. irreparab ein 
taking the after-birth, they 1 njure | won 
times by turning it wrong side out, iit auses 
distressing bear ring-down pains, and thus 1 
must ling out a miserable existence until death 
‘comes aga welcomesirend. to relieve her. . 
_ Thus, kind r reader, Ihave given you the most. im- 
iv portant particulars I now think of, and as to an 
further general directions, Iean don better than 
to refer you to the General Directions, ¢ as laid iis” 


way, that she had been so inju ge that all her urine 


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he past 


hey.declared she would neverlive _ 
to have another child. But they were mistaken, | 


in this book; and it is my opinion that you are bet-— 


Wcter off with your own judgment. and this book, than 
_ with all the scientific ignorance, called knowledge,” 
as taught in the schools, without at. Hence my ad-— 
- vice to you is, dismiss ‘all doctors vf law, physic 

and divinity. Pray for your own soul, if you know 
what it is, doct your own body, and make your own 
i, Wie” By so ive g, you will save your share of the 
he greatest tax ever sap aged, on mankind, 
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OUTLINES OF TREATMENT IN THE HOUR OF TRAVAIL. 
~ To point out aregular rule or form for every woe 


less, shifting their position in every form and man- — 
ner, to find a place of rest, which is as difficult as 
that. of Noah’s dove. _ ‘When they become so far 
advanced that they cannot satisfy themselves any 
‘Jonger in their own way, then you may assist them 
in the best manner to help themselves, and to enable — 
others to help them, by assisting nature to do her“ 
own work. 


man, would be out. of my power, as they are Test-_ a 


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The seat is prepared i in different ways, seoghtine: : 


to their fancy. Those who have had children ‘ought 
to be the best judge how to aid and assist them in 
this particular. I shall ‘only give advice how to 
proceed im some a’ arming and difficult cases, to be 


handed down for the benefit of generations yet un- 


born, | as none can be obtained from the progress of 
the learned, for four thousand years. And if any » 
~ peneficial information shall now be obtained, sit. 


must be from the illiterate, who have studied nature. 


rather than books. I have no authors, dictionaries 
or concordance, to assist nm 
quiring a correct judgment. 
rience are the only sources of my. Knewiinees from” 
which I draw all my lessons. 

Among the most desperate cases, is the flowing 


sble efforts in ac-— 
‘ ecessity and expe- _ 


of females: pregnant. or not, the treatment is the — 


same. If it happens before delivery, give a portion 
of composition with more cayenne, and hot water” 
sweetened; or some drops, cayenne and snuff, or 
fine bayberry, aS substitutes. _ If after delivery, the. 
‘same. When the woman grows weary and worn 
out, and pains begin to die away, give a portion of © 
the third preparation, in some composition, and | 


nerve powder. This will compose the system SO __ 


as to rest or relimorce nature, and hasten deliv 


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Itjis.of great-service,. when the. pains are lingering 
at, the time of giving the above named medicine to 
use an injection, in common form, made of the same. 
compound. ‘This will aia ten or ‘delay. delivery, as 
nature requires. ; 

Hdl nad the. edie of delivery, ‘apply a 
cloth of several thicknesses, wet with hot water, to. 
slack the muscles; repeat.it occasionally, and keep. 
it hot till nature is ready to perform her work. 

I attended one woman in this city, with her first 
child. “Her strength failed; her pains slacked; I 
gave her a-table-spoonful of the liquid of the: third: 
preparation; wrapped her warm, which caused her 
to vomit once, and. raised a perspiration; she fell 
asleep, and m this Situation rested four hours, when 
the head of the child was so far advanced as to 
have been visible. She awoke, her travail re-com- 
menced. with teinforced vigor. She was delivered 
rather in a coldstate; she flowed badly; I gave her 
some No. 2, and drops,” ‘with a little fine bayberry, 
which had the desired éffece. “She walked from the 
fire to the bed, and did well. 

‘There is another distressing complaint incident 
to females, worse than having children; and often 
no relief from the doctors. I have seen women in 

‘as great agony with false pains, as at the delivery of 
a ¢hild, A strong tea of witch-hazle leaves and 
nerve powder, and a little cayenne, strained, used by 
-injectionseither way, or. both, I have seen relieve, 
like* throwing water om, the fire. ‘The disorder is 
canker, and must be met with its antidote where it 
is. 

These few remarks, together with the foregoing 
cases, will be sufficient information on this subject. 
In conclusion, I would ask, can we attach sufficient 

‘value on amedicine that will give rest to a weary 
patient in Sree, and ‘restore the nerves and mus- 


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the regular FEE in cities, though it is less 1 


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made fatal, in consequence 


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ear, and it runs a yellow water, it will spread like: 


if the patient was w: 

of mercury, in the same way, and to. 

tent, the buboes and shankers would often make: 
their appearance in the same manner without the: 
supposed disease, as with. They doctor, the. name: 

-ipstead of the disorder. The patient, therefore, as: 


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* often loses. his life by! the mercury, as ee suppos- 
ed disease. 

Equally : so In ‘hydrophobia, by ee mercury the 
. remedy becomes worse than the disease. 

oe either of the above Cases, the disorder is Ne 
easier cured. by a regular course of: ‘medicine, than 
the poison given for it; as. the mercury is harder to 
eradicate from the system, than all ee natural dis- 

: ease incident to mankind. 

Since my last edition was published, the small- 
pox has_ been thoroughly attended, and the general 
Tule, as there laid down, ‘found to answer every pur-- 
pose, and produce the desired effect. To bring out 
the small- “Pox, as int he ineasles and other similar 

“disorders, be e careful n have too much outward 

heat while the pock i is filling, Ivisited a family in 

Cincinnati, last: winter, ha had the simall- -pox, and 
had had the kine-pox previous. The appearance of 
the pu ustules Were inore like poison or measles than 
those OF the “smail- -pox. When it turned, itbegan 
to flat, instead of drying off; and whenit had flatted 
down to the vitals, it turned i in, and one died, and 
the other, it left in a “miserable state of health; the 
pits hard and blue, like. other poison sores; and I. 
am of an opinion” ‘that more people die in’ conse- 
quence of having thé kine-pox, than it would to let: 
thé’ small-pox have its natural run. Because the 
“nature of the small-pox, when taken in the natural 
way, isto clear the. -Systein from every other putre- 
faction, | which, on the turn seabs off with it. Not 
“so in the kine-pox. The infection partakes of every 
disorder of the persons.of which it was taken; itch, 

_ venereal, cancer, humors, or worse than all: the rest, 
“mercurial taint, given by the doctor. When part, 
‘or all of these. diseases are inoculated into a healthy 
‘person, and has no way to discharge itself from the’ 
‘system, it creates: worse a than the smallpox. 


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ninifiahaiont or. heat to warm ‘the Body; andl expand 
the lungs. For the inward heat rarifies: the air in 
the. longs, and causes them to expand, by lightening 
the air within, and the heft of the surrounding: atmos- 
phere, being higher | charged with oxygen or water, 
puts out the fire faster than dry cold air; and-as: the 
heat decays” inward, the weight of the air crowds 
heavily on the lungs, | and causes great difficulty in 
breathing; the lungs Jabor like the wheel of a mill 
in back water, the fountain” almost level with the 
stream, until he he lungs becomes insuffi- 
cient to. ; y longer; » the heft of ‘the air 
Of heft Of inside, . and all 
in the air has put. out 
L why those people who 
have but little. fire in the body, and such a heft of 
damp air ‘outside, the heat i is SO. ‘soon, extinguished 
inside; Jike a person - falling into the water; the 
cause. of f death is, the water has put out the fire; and 
when the air is full of water, - it puts.out. the fire im 
the same proportion. Thus I think Ihave givena 
satisfactory cause of death upon natural Po: 
The cause e and effect are in themselves. 


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away het Was ipinc. any God in the case, ‘db Sonn 
from the cause here given? Or what soul or spirit 
went out at death, except the heat, ¢ or nature, which 
ome Fite and breath? , 
ria doctors shorten the lives oe fae patients. 


“That the practice of the regular doctors, as they 
are termed, : shortens the lives of their patients, isa 
truth of OLA not the shadow of a doubt; © 
_and the cause, to me, is obvious. The cold poisons ~ 
which they nihistér, have the effect of ogling, | : 


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the stomach and Alling: the digestive organs}. 80 that 
the food does not raise more than half the heat it 
did in a natural state, before those poisons had been 
administered. Then the’ bleeding and blistering 
lessens the remainder so as to rednce the heat to the 


capacity of old age. It is the same thing, no mat- 
ter what age, from one hour old to'an hundred years. 


When the heatis so far exhausted that the air is not’ 
sufficiently lightened by the heat -as*to expand the” 
adjoining air, the pressure. becomes ‘equalled, exter-— 


nal and internal, ‘the same asin the- ease ‘of a ‘drown : 


ed person. Thereis no difference, as'to’age, sect, 

or BE eae So" far: ‘as practice” S ‘concerned; 

1 the heat by. bleeding 
ae re 

mas, all tend to Jessen 
life’ in’ the same. pro= 
portion; Pana when if ds ehrel extinguished, death. 


follows asa natural pa and froma the same — 


y be hat puts out 
s ahewire, r xtnguish- 
ing inivatd: or vital hea s the cause of death. 


“All practitioners, _theref ‘ore, may by this” rule, ei- 
ther condemn or justify themselves, by looking bs 
on their former practice, and asking themselves the 
question; *‘Have I cultivated the heat of my patients. 
to prolong their lives; or haye I extinguished their 
heat, and. thereby killed. 
not this question fully. 
of human bemgs are d 
from birth to death! Who 
to say, in such’a case, ° 
Lord taketh away, and blessed b 
_ Lord /? when they. are dest oyed i in thi 

- In every thing that breathes, the Nfecthe i is froi m 
“he same cause. Without heat, their. i 
ing. But when heat is “continually ¢ 


wees Bey ey 
evolved ina confined room € <cle) 


swered? See how the 
“sacrificed, at all 
[would ask, is autho 
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as in the lungs, there must,be breathing, or what, is 
the same, an inhaling of cold air, and an exhaling 
of oxygen or vapor from it.. Every animal body has 
its lamp, in proportion to its bigness; and its con- 
tinuing to burn, is much owing to the one who trims 
or takes care of the. Jamp. If it be replenished 
with water, instead of oil, and with an icicle for a 
wick, it is like the method in which the doctors trim: 


“s the lamps of their patients. Taking out the blood, 
is like pouring out the oil; 


and the cold poison, is 


ag the icicle for a wick. The. effect soon follows, 


which is cold and darkness, Can we doubt this be- 


- ing the factat the present time? Do we not often see 


the head of family suddenly made cold by his lamp 
being put out; and three or four children taken from 
one house, ali having ie Jamps blown out? Can, 


~ any suppose that had their lamps been trimmed with 


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good oil, and good wicks, but that they would have 
continued Burning.as long as the body of the lamp 
remained whole? But if we continue not our own 
guards and sentinels, but employ artificial and learn- 
ed fools to watch over us, and save our oil for their 
own use, and trim our lamps with water and ice, we 
Gannot wonder at seeing our wives and children’ 
‘edashed in pieces like the potter’s vessel.” When 
we employ seamen to drive our coach of life, instead | 
of horsemen; andas long as custom, superstition, 
rror.and bigotry, are the ruling principles of the 
‘jd, we can never expect to live while all the oil 
in ourlamps are consumed; but to be blown out by 
¢ breath of ignorance, if nothing worse, as man- 
kind have been in all ages, where the poisonous 
breath of the Bohon Upas overtakes them. 
The Priest and Doctor claiming the control, .. 
“One of the flesh, the other of the soul; 
Hell and the pit, from which they dig their stuff, — 


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The 6 ect of reli, gious meetings, where women n chief 
fos) 
ly attend t in the absence ef their husbe ds. 


If women are allowed to attend day. aa night 
meetings; for the purpose of. having the priest: pray 
for their souls and pardon their sins, while their, — 
husbands and children are left at home, how long 
will it be before the sandals of the priest will be _ 
left atthe door, as in some other countries, as a 
ken that the husband. must not enter lest he s 
see and learn how: the priest pardons his wife’s sins 

The doctor also, who comes in fora full share in 
these secret privileges, if he be allowed to examine 
secrectly our wives and daughters for the purp 
of finding some secret complaint, which is indee-. 
ent for the husband or father to witness,.or know, . 
as was the case of R****s wife aud Dr. APES, of ® 
this city, but a few years since, who is to be venpani- 
sible for the mode of examinations © oe 

If men will allow their wives to be thus pit taesly. 
examined by!these crafts, for the purpose of ‘pardoning | 
their sins, and removing their indecent disorders, 
will they not soon claim all the indecent jobs in their. 
families: Ifit be indecent for a man to be present 
at the birth of his child, why not equally indecent 
to be present at its generation’ And so we must 
let the priest and the doctor generate as well as bring 
into the world, all our children! The priest could 
still baptize them in the name of the Father; Son 
and Holy Ghost; in whose name, also, he might 
pardon the sins: ref theirmother! In this way, these _ 
twocrafts might liberate the affectionate husband 
‘from all the toils of his ets excepting that of — 
their maintenance!!! | eee 

Arouse husbands from your lethargy. Gird ¢ on . 

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every man his sword by his side. The sword of 
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whenever you please, till you have driven all such 

miscreants from your borders. ‘Take the protection 
of your wives and daughters into your own hands; 
keep them at home 


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‘they go to meeting, go with them; when they are so 
‘sick as to need a doctor, which if properly treated, 

-wouldseldom be the case, be present at the exemin- 

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After purchasing the right, and I 
of Medicine numbered, these. Direc re t 
first lessons learned, es it gives a short and concise 
view of the system and practice. Inthe first. stag- 
es of disease, one gill of No. 3,.may be aeed sim- 
ply, with or without, sugar. In more violent attacks, 
use from half to a teaspoonful of No. 2; let the 
tient be covered witha blanket, by the fire « ori. 
apply a hot stone at the feet; if this does not 3 
them, add the emetic, No. 1, and nerve powder, 
go through a course ‘of medicine: Inwall ¢ 
where the glands are dry,and much fever, th 
ic should be used without spirit; the bitters: are 
best taken in hot water sweetened thastwith: spiri 
The objection to physic and bleeding, isogiven” 
these directions hereafter. The complement. of: mes 
dicine given as a‘family stock; is more to,.sHow 
simplicity of the articles, than: the requis 
ty required, Give children drink-often, sick ru 


_{G"The public are cautioned againg 
any one who shall pretend to use his ewr 
ments with my System of Practice, as FT wil 
accountable for any ae heage ae 
Th’ Emetic number onz’s. design'a 
A gen’ral med’cine for. menkind, 
Of every country, clime or place, © 


wie as the cee of eur race, 


In every case, and ste as stage, 
’ Me malady may rage; 
Fore ale or a ae fe yanng © OF old, 


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To use this: pgdipine do not cease, 
pe Til yous are h ee of your disease; 
be, 7 famso, ee sure willZbe, 


aces ances be. 
re gigi 


tone althe fect now keep, 
inward’ warmth repeat, 


s iration selenite 

| Then s sweat “enough as you suppoae, . 
In 3, and change yan clotion: 
; epee ‘both clean and white, 

3 ep. in ‘comfort all the night. 


disorder reinforce, 

Phen follow up the former course; 
6 secorid time I think will do, * 

ind to fail I seldom knew. 


take Sie bitters: by the way, 

ree, ‘or four times in a day; 
¢ if it be Iiouds.*. ° 
nay “eabany dsind of food. 


Desit. f would by no'mieans choose : 
o have you first or last tot use; rs 


For if you take itemuch in. course, 
Tt will disorder reinforce. 2 
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