776 INDEX. 
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SORES, Etc., continued. 
Olive oil, to dress granulating 
sores é = - §21, 522 
Orange, essence and ointment 
535-540 
Parsley, to scrofulous sores - 382 
Peas, cooked as food, to 
improve powers of healing, 
a German practice - - 558 
Peppermint oil, or essence, 
apply, aseptic - - - 374 
Pepsin, apply, as a cleansing 
ferment, and to clear away 
sloughing membranes - 47 
Primrose salve - - - 613 
Puff-ball (mushroom) powder 
to bleeding,or weeping sores 500 
Rhubarb, garden, leaves, 
apply fresh to scrofulous 
sores - . - - 389 
Rice flour, to bleeding sores, 
or wounds - - - 588 
Rosemary oil, to stimulate, 
apply - - - 383, 386 
Sage leaves, apply, aseptic 
386, 387 
Scurvy grass, apply, to 
cleanse wounds - - 393 
Seaweed, laver, apply - 628, 629 
Soda carbonate, as alkali, 
apply to ulcers for healing 38 
Sorrel leaves, apply, to 
cleanse sores, or wounds - 389 
Spermaceti, of whale, apply 
in ointment, to soothe and 
heal - - - - 731 
Spinach leaves, and Goose- 
foot spinach leaves, apply 394 
Thyme essence, thymol, 
aseptic for unhealthy 
ulcers and wounds - - 396 
Tomato poultice, aseptic, to 
foul ulcers and sores - 701 
Turnip poultice, cleansing 704, 705 
Turpentine, resin of pine 
tree, apply to heal indolent 
sores - - - 61, 93 
Walnut leaves, apply, and 
take extract of the same 
504, 719, 720 
Wood sorrel leaves, apply - 390 
Watercress poultice - 
Yeast poultice, 
indolent sores - - 
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SPINAL DISORDERS, and 
IRRITABILITY. 
Absinthe, to allay irritation, 
instead of giving bromides 16 
Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) 
oil, or essence of, in drops 
on sugar - - - - 214 
Garlic, apply over spine, 330, 331 
Ivy, ground, for a weak spine 
368, 369 
John’s, Saint, Wort oil, apply 
over spine - - - 5: 
Marrow, animal, (of Ox) as 
food to strengthen the 
spine - - - 450, 451 
Onion, to rub over spine with 
juice of red onion twice 
daily - : - - 61 
Rye bread, when grain is 
spurred (ergot) - - 117 
Sea sand bath, for children 
to sit, or standin - - 633 
Turpentine, in embrocation, 
for friction over the spine 
twice daily . - - 61 
Valerian root, infusion, or 
tea of - é - - 517 
SPLEEN, Affections of. 
Caper - - - - 138 
SPRAINS (sce also BRUISES). 
Crab apple, verjuice, by its 
tannin, apply - - 69, 223 
Seaweeds, apply, and friction 
with - - - - 628 
STAMMERING, to modify, or pre- 
vent. 
Meat, a restricted use of, or 
abstinence from - - 45 
STINGS, to relieve. 
Onion, of bee, or wasp, in 
throat - - - 405, 530 
STONE IN BLADDER (see 
URINE). 
SYPHILIS, 
Partridge - - 317 
Pellitory, of Spain, Spanish 
chamomile, in lozenges - 436 
