A New and Complete American Medical Family Herbal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...gradually dried. ground into a fine powder, and confined in a bottle well stopped, with a piece of bladder tied over, and kept in a cellar lor use. MEDICAL VIRTUES. It hasbeen recorded as an efficacious remedy in the cure of epilepsy, by many eminent physicians, both ancient and modern; the reason why it has failed, on trial of some late practioners, was their not giving a sufficientfiantity, and keeping the powder exposed to the air, whereby it lost its virtues. PREPARATION. When I am called to an epileptical patient and find him plethorick, I bleed, and prescribe an emetic of American ipecacuanha, from thirty to forty grains, and at bed time give him an anodine: the next day I give the powder of the misletoe as follows: a tea-spoonful four times a day, in a teacup full of wild valarian tea, increasing the dose to two or three tea-spoonsful, according to its effects. I will mention a very remarkable euro which I was instrumental in performing, while I was on a botanical excursion, in the month of May, Mr. Thomas M'Collum, of l?ye-nec?;, met me in a meadow, and told me his son had been subject to epileptic fits, from a child; and that he had been at great expense to Bo purpose. I called to see the youth, who was about nineteen years of age, and found him feverish, and somewhat hurt in his intelects. I bled him, gave him an emetic, put a getnn through the skin of his neck, and ordered him to use the salt water bath twice a week. Dig father called at my shop, about four or five weeks after, tor more medicine, and told me that his son had never been troubled with fits since he had first used it. MVGWOR:: ARTEMISIA. The stalk of this herb rises about three feet in height: leaves deeply divided into several segments similar to wormwood, pointed, on the upper sid..