Important: Safety Warning
This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
In addition, this page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Medicine
A
- Alkaline Mixture
- Amputations
- Aneurism, Boils and Carbuncles
- Another (Boil any quantity)
- Another (Digest fifteen ounces of white)
- Another (Let a quantity of ballast even)
- Another (Make a lotion by dissolving)
- Another (Make a lotion for the inflamed)
- Another (Mix together drachm)
- Another (Mix together grains)
- Another (Similar poultice)
- Another (Take of rhubarb powdered)
- Another (When the eye is merely weak)
- Another Application
- Another Method (Dissolve drachms of sulphate)
- Another Remedy
B
C
- Causes (All those which induce)
- Causes (External injuries as blows)
- Causes (Fullness of blood violent)
- Causes (Long-continued fever and ague)
- Causes (Rushing of blood to the head)
- Changes of genuine Cow-Pox
- Children
- Cholera (II)
- Cholera, Etc
- Consumption, Asthma, Pleurisy
- Coughs and Colds
- Culinary Arts
D
- Diseases of Children (Stools and an abatement)
- Diseases of Children (This may in general if)
- Diseases of Females (Into a glassful of cold water)
- Diseases of Females (Painters and other artificers)
- Diseases Peculiar to Females
- Dislocations (Positions as placing yourself)
F
- Fevers
- Fractures (End of the finger over)
- From Cold
- From Drowning
- From Foul Air
- From Hanging
- Fumigation and Ventilation
I
J
L
M
- Meats (Ways of dressing a dinner)
- Medicine (Cover them with the charcoal)
- Medicine (General Rules for treating)
- Medicine (Large dark-looking ulcers)
- Medicine (Take of galbanum myrrh)
- Medicine for Worms
- Medicines for Indigestion
- Miscellaneous Articles
- Mixture
O
P
R
- Regimen, etc (Diet ought to be nutritive)
- Regimen, etc (Diet should be nourishing milk)
- Regimen, etc (Should be light and properly)
- Regimen, etc (To confirm the cure)
- Regimen, etc (When the disappearance)
- Remedies
- Remedies for Coughs and Colds
- Rheumatism
S
- Saline Mixture
- Shipwreck
- Small Pox
- Symptoms (Bleeding of the gums teeth)
- Symptoms (Blood of a bright red color)
- Symptoms (Chills flushed face skin hot)
- Symptoms (Eruption of hard distinct)
- Symptoms (Fever and ague)
- Symptoms (Fever delirium vomiting pulse)
- Symptoms (Fixed burning pain in the sto)
- Symptoms (Flow of dark blood)
- Symptoms (Frequent desire to make water)
- Symptoms (Frequent desire to make water) (II)
- Symptoms (Inflammation of the skin)
- Symptoms (Inflammatory fever dry cough)
- Symptoms (Irregular and convulsive)
- Symptoms (Loss of sense and motion slow)
- Symptoms (Night sweats bowels costive)
- Symptoms (Pain and swelling)
- Symptoms (Partial or complete loss)
- Symptoms (Sharp pain in the bowels)
- Symptoms (Small swelling free from pain)
- Symptoms (Tingling sensation at the end)
- Symptoms (Tumor differing)
- Symptoms (Tumor in the fore part)
- Symptoms (Ulcers situated over or near)
- Symptoms (Violent spasmodic pain)
- Symptoms (Want of appetite low spirits)
T
- Teeth
- The Teeth
- Tincture of Aloes
- Treatment (All that can be done)
- Treatment (Apply blisters to the part)
- Treatment (Apply immediately to a surgeon)
- Treatment (Apply pressure blisters)
- Treatment (As a total retention of urine)
- Treatment (Bleed the patient as quickly)
- Treatment (Blisters tincture of aconite)
- Treatment (Confine the patient to bed)
- Treatment (Cup the patient freely)
- Treatment (During the fit place)
- Treatment (Emetic ipecacuanha may be)
- Treatment (Every case of indigestion)
- Treatment (Give the patient at once)
- Treatment (Gleet is exceedingly difficult)
- Treatment (Goitre is sometimes incurable)
- Treatment (If it arise from simple)
- Treatment (If the complaint is caused)
- Treatment (If the pulse remains full)
- Treatment (Into one ounce of water throw)
- Treatment (Keep the sore clean repress)
- Treatment (Lay the person on his back)
- Treatment (Lose not a moment in sending)
- Treatment (Meddle not with the complaint)
- Treatment (Procure several bougies)
- Treatment (Remove the cause if possible)
- Treatment (Suspend the testicles or keep)
- Treatment (There are a great many)
- Treatment (This will vary according)
- Treatment (Touch the whole surface sides)
- Treatment (When hiccups occur)
- Treatment (Young and robust person it may)
- Treatment of the Eye