Twentieth century home cook book

Capsicum. — Used in dyspepsia, flatulence, externally as an ingredient in gargles for relaxed sore throat. Dose: 3 to 5 grains, in pills; 2 drachms to 8 ounces form the strength for using as a gargle, diluted largely with water. Cascarilla Bark. — Stimulant, stomachic and tonic. Used in dyspepsia, flatulent colic, chronic dysentery and gangrene. Dose: 20 to 30 grains of this powder 3 or 4 times a day. Castor Oil. — Mildly aperient. Used in colic and in those cases of constipation which will not bear drastic purgatives; also for mixing with gruel for the ordinary enema. Dose : A teaspoonful to 1 or 2 tablespoonfuls ; an ounce is the proper quantity for mixing with gruel to make an enema. Simple Cerate. — Add 20 ounces of melted wax to a pint of olive oil, and mix while warm, stirring until cold. Used for covering blisters or other healing sores. Chalk, Prepared. — Used in acidities of the stomach and bowels, and to correct the irritation which is established in diarrhoea. Externally, as a mild application to sores and burns. Dose: 10 to 15 grains. Chamomile Flowers. — Tonic, stomachic and carminative. The warm infusion, when weak, is emetic. Externally, soothing. Used in dyspepsia, hysteria, flatulence, and also to work off emetics. Dose of the powder: 30 to 40 grains, twice a day. Charcoal. — Vegetable. Used as an ingredient in tooth-powder; also to mix with other substances in forming a poultice for foul ulcers. Sometimes given internally. Dose 10 to 20 grains. Cinchona Bark. — (Yellow.) Astringent, tonic, antiseptic and febrifuge. Used in typhoid fevers, and in all low states of the system, being in such cases superior to quinine. Dose: 10 to 50 grains, in wine or wine and water. Cinnamon Bark, Oil and Water. — Used as a warm and cordial spice to prevent the griping of purgatives, etc. Cod-Liver Oil. — Prepared from the liver of the codfish. Nutritive, and acting also on the general system, from containing very small doses of iodine and bromine. Dose: 1 drachm carried up to 4 in any convenient vehicle, as infusion of cloves. Decoction or Barley. — (Barley water.) Wash 2^ ounces of pearl barley, then boil it in j4 pint of water for a short time. Throw this water away, and pour on the barley 4 pints of hot water; boil slowly down to 2 pints and strain. Soothing and nourishing. Used as a diluent drink in fevers and in inflammation of mucous surfaces, especially those of the urinary organs. Decoction of Barley (Compound).— Boil 2 pints of barley water (see above) with 2}4 ounces of sliced figs, 4 drachms of bruised fresh licorice, 2}4 ounces of raisins, and 1 pint of water, down to 2 pints, and strain. Effect, the same as barley water, but, in addition, laxative, Decoction of Broom (Compound). — Take }^ ounce of broom, ^ ounce of juniper berries, and ^ ounce of bruised dandelion ; boil in Xy^ pints of water down to a pint, and strain. Diuretic, and slightly aperient. Used in dropsy. Dose : 1^ ounces to 2 ounces, twice or thrice a day. Decoction of Cinchona. — Boil 10 drachms of bruised yellow cinchona in 1 pint of water for 10 minutes, in a closed vessel, then strain. Used in fevers, malignant sore throat and dyspepsia. Dose: lyi ounces to 3 ounces, 3 times a day. Decoction of Dandelion. — Boil 4 ounces of bruised dandelion in \y^ pints of distilled water, to a pint, and strain. Used in torpid conditions of the liver, jaundice, habitual constipation, etc. Dose: 2 or 3 ounces, 2 or 3 times a day. Decoction of Iceland Moss. — Boil 5 drachms of Iceland moss in 1^ pints of water down to a pint, and strain. Used in consumption and dysentery. Dose: 1 to 2 ounces. Decoction of Poppyheads. — Boil 5 ounces of bruised poppyheads in 3 pints of water for ^^ hour, and strain. Used as a fomentation in painful swellings and inflammations.