164 MUSTARD. 



Dioscorides * and the ancients in the diseases just named ; with 

 the same view, Bergiusf used it effectually for curing intermit- 

 tents, directing a spoonful of the whole seed to be swallowed 

 three or four times a day during the absence of the fever ; and 

 when the disease was obstinate he added powdered Mustard to 

 Peruvian bark ; but it should not be employed in very robust 

 subjects, since a most ardent fever and death may be the result J. 

 In putrid fevers it has also been celebrated, either alone, or in 

 conjunction with bark §. 



Externally, Mustard is extensively used in the form of poul- 

 tice and embrocation, the former more particularly as a counter- 

 irritant, the latter as a rubefacient. Mustard poultices, or sina- 

 pisms as they are called, are used in cases of inflammation of the 

 brain, retrocedent gout, apoplexy, the low muttering delirium 

 of fevers, or whenever the powers of life are fast ebbing. They 

 are usually in these cases applied to the soles of the feet, or the 

 wrists and calves of the legs. When placed over the region of 

 the stomach, they often allay obstinate vomitings and hiccup ; 

 are occasionally employed to stimulate variolous and morbid 

 eruptions, to restore checked measles and scarlet fever, and to 

 counteract pleurisy, and other internal inflammations. In rubefa- 

 cient embrocations they are employed, with friction, to paralytic, 

 arthritic, and rheumatic limbs, and to some indolent glandular 

 indurations. Mustard added to baths has afforded great relief 

 in high degrees of spasmodic asthma, by immersing the arms 

 to the shoulders for twenty minutes ||. 



MUSTARD WHEY ^[. 



Take of Milk two pints ; 



Mustard seeds, bruised ... two ounces. 



Boil together till the curd falls to the bottom of the vessel, and filter. 

 Dose, from a quarter to half a pint three times a day. 



* Dioscorides, Mat. Med. lib. 2. cap. 184. 



f Bergius, Mat. Med. p. 581. 



$ Swieten, Comm. torn. ii. p. 31. 



§ Callisen, in Act. Soc Roy. Med. Hafn. vol. i. p. 364, sq. 



|| Gazette of Health, vol. i. p. 210. 



% Dispensatorium electorate Hassiacum, 1806. 



