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Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mix — Good in all skin diseases and constitu- tional diseases, such as syphilis, scrofula, etc. ACID BATH. Nitric acid i yi ounces. Muriatic acid 2 ounce✪ Acid Foot Baths. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — To be prepared in a wooden bath-tub. The patient should remain in the bath from 10 to 20 minutes. Useful in cases where the liver is in- active, in jaundice, and where the perspiration has a fetid and sour odor. NO. 2. Dilute muriatic acid i^ ounces. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — Prepare in wooden bath-tub. This tonic bath is useful in the hysterical and nervous pa- tients, and should be employed daily, to prepare them for the shower baths. MEDICAL DIVISION. 8/ SULPHUR BATH. Sulphuret of potassium 4 ounces. Water 30 gallons. Mix — Good in itch, lead colic, paralysis from lead, and all cutaneous diseases. IODINE BATH. Iodine i dram. Iodide of pot. one-half ounce. Solution of potassium 2 ounces. Warrfi water 30 gallons. Mix — Useful in scrofula, long standing rheuma- tism, and certain skin diseases. ARTIFICIAL SEA WATER BATH. Bay salt 2 pounds. Epsom salts 3 ounces. Iodide of potassium 2 drams. Lime water i ^ ounces. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — This is a good substitute for natural sea water bath when the latter cannot be obtained. It may be used hot or cold. NO. 2. Common salt 9 pounds. Epsom salts 10 ounces. Chloride of magnesia 18 ounces. Water 30 gallons. Mix — It is found sea anemones and other deni- zens of the sea will live and thrive in this water, and this may be considered a delicate test o( this water. 88 DOMESTIC GUIDE. CREOSOTE BATH. Creosote 2 drams. Glycerine 2 ounces. Water 30 gallons. Mix — Useful in scaly diseases of the skin. HEMLOCK AND STARCH BATH. Ext. Hemlock 2 drams. Powdered starch 2 pounds. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — Useful in certain skin diseases character- ized by great sensitiveness and irritability. FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. Bromide of potassium one-half ounce. Cinnamon water 2 ounces. Mix — For adults the dose of this is a dessert- spoonful, taken just before the evening meal, and another dose just before going to bed. BEEF TEA. A pound of fresh beef should be chosen from the neck or loins and carefully freed from fat. It is then to be cut in fine pieces, and a very little salt and five grains of unbroken black pepper added. Pour over it a pint of cold water✪ Beef Tea, and place it on the fire to simmer for 40 minutes. Then pour off the liquor and squeeze out all the juice through a cloth. The meat is then to be thrown aside and the tea returned to the fire to boil ten minutes. Care should be used not to put too much salt, as that is too often done, and it spoils it for the patient. MEDICAL DIVISION. 89 EGGS, CREAM AND BEEF TEA. Wash 2 ounces of best pearl sago until the wa- ter turned from it is clear. Then stew the sago in one-half pint of water until it is quite tender and very thick. Mix with it one-half pint of good boiling cream and the yolks of 4 fresh eggs, and mingle the whole carefully with i quart of beef tea✪ Eggs, Cream and Beef Tea, which should be boiling. Then serve. GRUEL AND BEEF TEA. Take 2 table-spoonfuls of oatmeal with 3 of water, and mix them thoroughly. Then add a pint of strong, boiled beef tea✪ Gruel and Beef Tea. Boil all 5 njinutes, stirring to keep the oatmeal from burning, and strain through a hair sieve. This is a good restora- tive from sickness during convalescence before solid food can be taken.