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Identifier: bestfamilyphysic00byrn (find matches)
Title: The best family physician and household companion
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Byrn, M. Lafayette (Marcus Lafayette), 1826-1903
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: New York, The Coast city publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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powerful diuretic (actingon the kidneys) yet acting mildly, and may he used freely without danger; it also act!m a diaphoretic, producing perspiration ; and is also a tonic, strengthening the system;ft is also good bruised, and applied to ulcers, sores, etc It is a useful medicine iniropsy, sore throat, gravel, scrofula, etc. A wine-glass full of the tea, or infusion(cold); given every three hours, is good to operate on the kidneys, or taken warm tcproduce perspiration; or three times a day (cold) before meals as a tonic ; or ten grain*of the powder may be given three times a day in syrup. Tanacetum Vulgare ; or; Tansey. (The Leaves.) This grows in moist pasturvj•dge of cornfields, and is cultivated in gardens. Given in the form of tea, warm, k*lnot too strong, it produces perspiration freely, and is good in debilitated persons ; twine-glass may be taken, cold, three times a day in dropsy, hysterics, and diseasa cfth* kidneys. It is good taken warm to exnel wind from the stomach. 42
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Aspidium Filix Mas»9 or Male Fern. (the root.) This plant grows in shady pine forests from New Jersey to Virginia jit is likewise a native of Europe, Asia and North of Africa. It is usedas a remedy against tape worm. Dose of the powdered root from oneto two teaspoonfuls, given with powdered white sugar, white of eggbeat up, or the thick juice or water of slippery elm ; this dose to be repeated night and morning for two days ; then give a brisk purgative ofcastor oil, and should that not operate in three hours, give a dose o*Epsom or Rochelle salts 43

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Medicine__Popular
  • bookpublisher:New_York__The_Coast_city_publishing_co_
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