DOMESTIC PHARMACOPEIA. _ A 
_ For Dysentery—Al] mucilagi substances are proper, as e 
_ serves of comfrey, slipper —— arabic, patio ae gl 
Also, alkalies, 26 4b8 s alk julep. : 28 
= uerisy root, in powder, ma be administered wi advan. 
tage in all cases of dysentery. : ee une 
Night shade is said to be a specific in this disorder; but it requires 
great eaution in its use, A grain of the pulverized leaves, or two 
drops of a saturated tincture, is sufficient for a dose for an adult, — 
When the bowels are very much eroded and irritated, laudanum * 
may be added to the other remedies, Laudanum and gum arabic is 
a useful formula in dysentery, | rene 
Clysters of starch, with cranesbill and laudanum, are serviceable 
to allay the irritation of the intestines. ae ist 3 
Or, to ease pain, give a few draps of Jaudanum in hot saffron tea. 
ful of wheat flour—~boil it in a bag two hours, till 
t, and take a tea speonful, in milk, two or 
__ Take a tea cup 
jt becomes hard. Grate i 
three times a day. 
‘Or, hard hack, or ox balm, in decoction, 
~ Or, use white ash physic, and drink a tea of arsemart and mullen, 
Or, take a spoonful of plantain seed, bruised, morning and even= 
yng, unti] it stops. rie So ibe 
Or, the leaves of plantain, boiled in milk, and taken freely. 
Or, a nutmeg, pulverized, in the yolk of an egg. aoa 
* Or, rice boiled in milk. : 
Or, equal parts of sweet oil, West India molasses, and West India 
rum. Mix, and simmer them to a consistence of honey. = 
Or, green blackberries, dried and pulveriged—a tea spoonful in 
cinnamon water, night and morning. 
m, scraped, with water, brandy and sugar. 
. Or, slippery el a 
Or, white oak bark, and mullen leaves, each a handful—boil in 
rain water. ‘Then burn a pint of brandy with a pound of sugar, and 
After purging sufficiently, give the following deeoetior Tako 
ihe roots of comfrey and Solomon seal, each two ounces ; tormentil 
ce; reduce these to a 
root, three drachms; white oak bark, one ounce ; : 
in three pints of water to a 
wder, and boil them ver ntly 
oe eh add one drachm of good 
quart, and towards the last of the coction, d 
bruised; and when cool, a gill of Ma- 
cinnamon, and alarge nutmeg . 
deira wine, and as much refined sugar as will render it agreeable to — 
the palate. This has cured hundreds. : 
For THE PixEs, Ae oe 
Mullein decoction injected, and mullein leaves. api 
- Stramonium leaves applied, or an ointment of st 
Plantain, wild indigo, and bittersweet, im 
cellent wash for the piles. 2 Ss 
= One ounce of pe extract, in ad oe suede f as 
"This has been sold in t , shops as a spe ee oa ‘ e" ‘ 
Pumpkin seed oil, applied, is a valuable remedy. Or, the. bitter- 
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