SHERBET✪ Sherbet, Persian. — Loaf
sugar, finely powdered, 1 lb. ; tartaric
acid, 4 ozs. ; carbonate of soda, 4 ozs. ;
add 3 teaspoonfuls of essence of lemon,
or according to your taste. Mix very
well, and then bottle and cork well.
When used, put a teaspoonfuls in a
glass tumbler of spring water, stir
briskly, and drink while in a state of
effervescence.
SHERRY, British. — Put £ a
bushel of good pale malt into a tub, and
pour upon it 4 gallons of boiling water ;
stir well, cover the vessel, and infuse 4
hours. Strain through a hair sieve.
Add pure water, 7 gallons ; white sugar,
16 lbs. ; boil together gently for % of an
hour, constantly skimming it. Pour it
into a clean tub, and dissolve in it 4 lbs.
of sugar candy, powdered ; ferment with
yeast for 3 or 4 days. When poured off
clear into a sweet cask, add 5 lbs. of the
best raisins, bruised and stoned. Stir
once or twice a day. Slightly bung for
2 days, and add 3 or 4 quarts of French
brandy. Bung closely. In 3 months
bottle for use.
SHINGLES.— Called Herpes,
Tetters, Salt Rheum, die. — It is
a disease of the skin ; an inveterate
eruption on different parts of the body,
usually the hands, and sometimes it ap-
pears in distinct clusters round or near
the waist, surrounding one half of the
trunk of the body, like a belt, generally
towards the right side. It is a species
of ringworm or tetter.
The eruptions or vesicles which ap-
pear break and discharge a thin corro-
sive fluid which causes much irritation
or itching.
Treatment. — Keep the body open
by the black draught, and seidlitz pow-
der ; administer tonics in the decoction
of sarsaparilla. Give also a vapour bath
of bitter decoction, and afterwards, rub
the body with the stimulating liniment.
If there is much fever, give 5 grains of
the carbonate and nitrate of potash a or
3 times a day. Celandine ointment is
very good ; when the itching is very
troublesome, apply it to the affected
parts.
Dr. Beach recommends a wash to be
made of celandine and whiskey ; infuse
a table-spoonful of the former in the lat-
ter ; wash often, and then apply the
Brovin Ointment. Should the vesicles
form or run into a bone, apply a poul-
tice of slippery elm, and a little cream.
The tincture of bloodroot, and tincture
of myrrh, make a good wash. Apply as
before the Brown Ointment. The tepid
water cloth is a good application to allay
itching. The warm baths should often
be taken.
SHOES and BOOTS, to make
Waterproof. — Melt 5 ozs. of sper-
maceti in a pipkin or other earthen ves-
sel, over a slow fire ; add 2 ozs. of cut
india-rubber ; add a little wood naph-
tha. Dissolve, and add 2 ozs. of hog’s
lard, 8 ozs. of tallow, and 4 ozs. of am-
ber varnish. Mix. Apply to the shoes
or boots a few times.
SHORTNESS of BREATH.
— Take of vitriolated spirits of ether, 1
oz., and of camphor 12 grains. Make
a solution, of which take a teaspoonful
during the paroxysm. This is usually
found to afford instantaneous relief in
difficult breathing, depending on inter-
nal disease, and other causes, where the
patient, from a quick and very laborious
breathing, is obliged to be in an erect
posture.
Or, take a oz. of powder of elecam-
pane root, oz. of powder of liquorice,
as much flower of brimstone and pow-
der of aniseed, and 2 ozs. of sugar-candy
powdered. Make all into pills, with a
sufficient quantity of tar ; take 4 large
pills when going to rest. This is an in-
comparable medicine for an asthma.
Consult me
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SHERBET, Persian. — Loaf sugar, finely powdered, 1 lb. ; tartaric acid, 4 ozs. ; carbonate of soda, 4 ozs. ; add 3 teaspoonfuls of essence of lemon, or according to your taste. Mix very well, and then bottle and cork well. When used, put a teaspoonful in a glass tumbler of spring water, stir briskly, and drink while in a state of effervescence.
SHERRY, British. — Put £ a bushel of good pale malt into a tub, and pour upon it 4 gallons of boiling water ; stir well, cover the vessel, and infuse 4 hours. Strain through a hair sieve. Add pure water, 7 gallons ; white sugar, 16 lbs. ; boil together gently for % of an hour, constantly skimming it. Pour it into a clean tub, and dissolve in it 4 lbs. of sugar candy, powdered ; ferment with yeast for 3 or 4 days. When poured off clear into a sweet cask, add 5 lbs. of the best raisins, bruised and stoned. Stir once or twice a day. Slightly bung for 2 days, and add 3 or 4 quarts of French brandy. Bung closely. In 3 months bottle for use.
SHINGLES.— Called Herpes, Tetters, Salt Rheum, die. — It is a disease of the skin ; an inveterate eruption on different parts of the body, usually the hands, and sometimes it appears in distinct clusters round or near the waist, surrounding one half of the trunk of the body, like a belt, generally towards the right side. It is a species of ringworm or tetter.
The eruptions or vesicles which appear break and discharge a thin corrosive fluid which causes much irritation or itching.
Treatment. — Keep the body open by the black draught, and seidlitz powder ; administer tonics in the decoction
of sarsaparilla. Give also a vapour bath of bitter decoction, and afterwards, rub the body with the stimulating liniment. If there is much fever, give 5 grains of the carbonate and nitrate of potash a or 3 times a day. Celandine ointment is very good ; when the itching is very troublesome, apply it to the affected parts.
Dr. Beach recommends a wash to be made of celandine and whiskey ; infuse a table-spoonful of the former in the latter ; wash often, and then apply the Brovin Ointment. Should the vesicles form or run into a bone, apply a poultice of slippery elm, and a little cream. The tincture of bloodroot, and tincture of myrrh, make a good wash. Apply as before the Brown Ointment. The tepid water cloth is a good application to allay itching. The warm baths should often be taken.
SHOES and BOOTS, to make Waterproof. — Melt 5 ozs. of spermaceti in a pipkin or other earthen vessel, over a slow fire ; add 2 ozs. of cut india-rubber ; add a little wood naphtha. Dissolve, and add 2 ozs. of hog’s lard, 8 ozs. of tallow, and 4 ozs. of amber varnish. Mix. Apply to the shoes or boots a few times.
SHORTNESS of BREATH. — Take of vitriolated spirits of ether, 1 oz., and of camphor 12 grains. Make a solution, of which take a teaspoonful during the paroxysm. This is usually found to afford instantaneous relief in difficult breathing, depending on internal disease, and other causes, where the patient, from a quick and very laborious breathing, is obliged to be in an erect posture.
Or, take a oz. of powder of elecampane root, oz. of powder of liquorice, as much flower of brimstone and powder of aniseed, and 2 ozs. of sugar-candy powdered. Make all into pills, with a sufficient quantity of tar ; take 4 large pills when going to rest. This is an incomparable medicine for an asthma.
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