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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
will be advisable to avoid pepper and much salt, but not otherwise. Mr. Wesley recommends the follow- ing : — Live chastely : feed sparingly : use exercise constantly : sleep moder- ately, but never lying on your back. Take eight grains of jalap every eight days. This usually cures in five weeks. Or, make Venice turpentine, flour, and fine sugar, equal quantities, into small pills. Take three or four of these morning and evening. This also cures most pains in the back. Or, take yel- low resin, powdered, 1 or. ; conserve of roses, oz. ; powdered rhubarb, 3 drms. ; syrup, a sufficient quantity to make an electuary. Take a large tea- spoonful of this twice a day, in a cup of comfrey-root tea. WHITE SWELLING.— This is a very painful disease; it more fre- quently affects the knee than any other joint ; sometimes the hip, ancle, and elbow. At first a severe pain is felt penetrating the joint, or only one par- ticular part of the joint. The least motion aggravates the pain. It soon begins to swell considerably, and sup- puration takes place. Matter is dis- charged from several openings or ulcers, the bones are affected ; and if the dis- ease is not arrested, the life of the patient is endangered. Treatment. — Avoid the old sys- tem of treatment by the allopathic doctors, by mercury, blistering, setons, amputation, &c. Attend to the stomach and bowels, giving an emetic, and an aperient, if needed ; to be followed by bitter tonics occasionally, giving the Alterative Syrup, page 16, diluted when first taken ; or a decoction of sarsaparilla, sassafras, guiacum, queen’s delight, unicorn root, cleavers, prickly ash berries, of each 1 oz. Simmer in a covered pan with two quarts of water down to three pints. Sweeten. A des- sert spoonful three or four times a day. Steam the part with bitter herbs, and now and then give the vapour bath to the whole body. After steaming the affected part, rub the limb with the Rheumatic Liquid. Dr. Beach recommends the following ; — “Oil of hemlock; oil of sassafras, gum camphor, tincture of opium, K oz. each, and a pint of spirit of wine. When\ dissolved and properly mixed. WHI 42i AYIL bathe the part with it frequently." — Then apply in oatmeal and bran poul- tice. mixed with a little finely powdered charcoal, salt and cayenne pepper. If the pain is great, sprinkle on the poul- tice, % oi. of laudanum. Keep it on as long as possible, and then steam. WHITE SWELLING.— The pain arising from white swellings, and other similar swellings, may be instantly eased thus : — Take the white of an egg, and beat it up with two tablespoonfuls of spring water ; rub the part affected frequendy, but gently with the finger. WHITE SWELLINGS. Hold the part half an hour every morn- ing under a pump or tap. This cures all pains in the joints. It seldom fails. — Tried. Or, pour on it daily a stream of warm water. Or, a stream of cold water one day, and warm the next, and so on by turns. Use these remedies at first, if possible. It is like- wise proper to intermix gentle purges to prevent a relapse. Or, boiled nettles. — Wesley. WHITINGS, to Choose.— The firmness of the body and fins is to be looked to, as in herrings ; their high season is during the first three months of the year, but they may be had a great part of it. Whiting to Fry