Madame Young's Guide to Health / Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.

Chapter 146: Transcriber's Notes

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Practical 19th-century domestic medical manual and family herbal for women that blends accessible anatomy and physiology with guidance on pregnancy, child care, diet, and common illnesses. It catalogs indigenous roots and herbs, explains their properties, and gives recipes and preparations — tinctures, poultices, ointments, waters, and pills — for respiratory, digestive, rheumatic, menstrual, and skin conditions, plus fevers, convulsions, and wounds. Additional sections include tables on digestion and gestation, household remedies, procedural advice for bleeding and poultices, and an index of plants with synonyms and recommended uses.

Transcriber's Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.

Hyphenation has been standardised to ensure compatibility between the various lists and index.

The following changes have been made:

Sodorific and sudorific are used indiscriminately in the book, and has been Standardised on the accepted spelling of sudorific..

On pages 17, 21 and 46
Hooping cough corrected to Whooping cough

page 60
and keep hot niac hours, niac has been changed to nine

page 153
never do have the parson’s wife, changed to never do to have the parson’s wife

Alternative spellings are used for various herbs e.g. hoarhound and horehound. These remain together with all other variations in spelling.

The Erratum has been implemented.