1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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Open through everj' stage of the disease; for, if cos- tiveness be permitted, the fever will increase ; and, if not timely removed, the disorder will terminate

fatally.

No. 482.

Frenzy, or Inflammation of the Brain, Is sometimes occasioned by wounds or contusions in the head, that are attended with violent inflamma- tions of the vessels, and, if not speedily relieved, may terminate in a gangrene or a mortitication, which is very often the case, and that in a few days.

No. 483.

lleihod of Care.

In the cure of this disease, the following method must be attended to. First, lessen the quantity of blood by frequent bleeding, which may be repeated daily, if required, and by which the great efflux of blood upon the temporal arteries will be lessened and much retarded. The following purgative drink will be found suitable for this disease, and like\vise for most fevers of an inflammatory nature. Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound; tartarized anti- mony, 1 drachm; camphor, 2 drachms; molasses, 4 ounces. Mix, and put the whole into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. When new- milk-warm, add laudanum, J ounce, and give it all for one dose. This drink will in general operate briskly in the space of 20 or 30 hours; if not, let