Black or green tea, steeped in boiling milk, seasoned with nutmeg,
and best of loaf sugar, is excellent for the dysentery. Cork burnt
to charcoal, about as big as a hazel-nut, macerated, and put in a
tea-spoonful of brandy, with a little loaf sugar and nutmeg, is very
efficacious in cases of dysentery and cholera-morbus. If nutmeg
be wanting, peppermint-water may be used. Flannel wet with brandy,
powdered with Cayenne pepper, and laid upon the bowels, affords great
relief in cases of extreme distress.
Dissolve as much table-salt in keen vinegar, as will ferment and work
clear. When the foam is discharged, cork it up in a bottle, and put it
away for use. A large spoonful of this, in a gill of boiling water, is
very efficacious in cases of dysentery and colic.[3]
[Footnote 3: Among the numerous medicines for this disease, perhaps
none, after all, is better, particularly where the bowels are
inflamed, than the old-fashioned one of English-mallows steeped
in milk, and drank freely. Everybody knows, of course, that
English-mallows and marsh-mallows are different herbs.]
Whortleberries, commonly called huckleberries, dried, are a useful
medicine for children.
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