Mother, Nurse and Infant / A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.

Divide into six powders.

S. One powder to be taken every three hours in syrup or molasses.

67. FOR SCIATICA AND FOR THE KIDNEYS.

Mark. One teaspoonful three times a day.

68. FOR GASTRIC ULCER.

Make six powders. Mark. One powder to be taken every four hours.

69. CARBONATE OF MAGNESIA.

One fourth part occasionally. Useful where there is much oppression from flatulency.

70. CHALK MIXTURE AND HOPS.

Mark. One teaspoonful every three or four hours. Useful in diarrhœa due to acidity in the stomach.

71. FOR HEARTBURN.

Make a draught. Take immediately and repeat if necessary.

72. FOR ACIDITY OF THE STOMACH.

Sig. After each meal.

Sig. Thirty drops and repeat every half hour until relieved.

74. FOR DISORDERED STOMACH.

Of this one teaspoonful may be put in a glass of water, of which the patient may take a teaspoonful every hour.

75. NAUSEA AND VOMITING.

Add a table spoonful of No. 2 to a teaspoonful of No. 1 and drink immediately.

76. A POWDER FOR HEARTBURN.

Sig. A small teaspoonful occasionally.

77. CHALK MIXTURE.

Sig. A table spoonful for a dose every two hours. When administered for diarrhœa, astringents and laudanum may be added.

78. CHOLERA MIXTURE.

To be taken every four hours.

Add white sugar to an agreeable sweetness.

Highly useful in diarrhœa, dysentery, summer complaint, &c., especially of children.

80. FOR DIARRHŒA AND DYSENTERY.

S. Dose, ¼ teaspoonful every two hours, in water.

81. SODA MINT FOR NAUSEA, &C.

Dose. 1 table spoonful.

82. FOR FLATULENT DYSPEPSIA.

Of this powder a small teaspoonful may be taken before a meal.

ANTISEPTICS.

83. LAVENDER AND CAMPHOR.

Make a draught. To be taken every six or eight hours by a nervous attendant in a sick room.

A table spoonful three times a day relieves the fetor, and is otherwise useful in low cases of fever, gangrene of the lungs, &c.

ANTISPASMODICS.

85. AMMONIA MIXTURE.

Make a draught. To be taken twice or three times a day if there be flatulence or languor. In dyspepsia, debility, irritable stomach, &c.

86. FOR ASTHMA.

Sig. A table spoonful every one, two, three, or four hours.

87. FOR WHOOPING COUGH.

Sig. One teaspoonful three times a day.

88. FOR ASTHMA.

Sig. A teaspoonful every hour until the paroxysm should cease. Afterwards every four hours for the day.

89. ASIATIC MIXTURE FOR CHOLERA.

Dose for an adult, 20 to 60 drops every 2, 3, or 4 hours.

S. Dose 20 drops every two hours until relieved. Useful in dysentery after the operation of Epsom salts.

91. HOFFMAN’S ANODYNE AND LAUDANUM.

Fiat Mistura. Signa, A teaspoonful every hour in hysteria, &c. May sometimes be taken in a dose of a table spoonful.

92. FOR AFTER PAINS.

Given in 10 grain doses and repeated, when required, every 4 hours.

ASTRINGENTS.

93. FOR DYSENTERY.

Label. One sixth part three times a day, about an hour before each meal.

94. CINNAMON MIXTURE.

Make a draught to be taken thrice daily. In menorrhagia especially, but also in other varieties of passive hemorrhage.

95. CHLOROFORM, OPIUM, AND CASTOR OIL.

Make a draught to be taken immediately. In choleraic diarrhœa.

Sig. Take one table spoonful hourly.

97. IN HEMOPTYSIS (BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS.)

S. Half a table spoonful every hour if necessary.

98. FOR PHTHISIS WHEN NIGHT SWEATS AND COUGH ARE BAD.

For a dose ter. die.

It will be more convenient to have the above put up according to the following form:

Sig. Take nearly a table spoonful three times a day. (For an adult.)

99. FOR INFANTILE DIARRHŒA.

S. A teaspoonful every two hours.

100. FOR CHOLERA MORBUS.

S. A teaspoonful in water every two hours or oftener, until relieved. In cholera morbus, colic, dysentery, &c.

For viij. powders. One to be taken every three hours in the mother’s or cow’s milk.

102. FOR CHRONIC DYSENTERY.

Sig. 6 grains every six hours.

103. FOR PROLAPSIS UTERI.

S. One-half a teaspoonful three times a day.

104. ASTRINGENT POWDER.

Divide into six powders. Give one powder every six hours.

CATHARTICS.

105. THE WHITE MIXTURE FOR RHEUMATISM.

One-sixth part early every morning.

106. FOR DYSENTERY.

S. One teaspoonful every two or three hours.

Sig. Wineglassful before meals.

108. COMPOUND LICORICE POWDER.

Dose one teaspoonful as a mild laxative.

109. AS A LAXATIVE FOR ANTIPARTEM ADMINISTRATION.

Let the mixture stand over night; filter. Dose, two or three ounces.

110. FOR PILES.

Sig. One, two, or three teaspoonfuls of the powder before eating in the morning.

111. FOR DYSENTERY.

S. One-eighth part for an adult every three hours. In dysentery where there are scybala in the rectum. Also where an aperient with a sedative is needed.

112. TO EXPEL THE ROUND WORMS.

Make a powder to be taken early in the morning in a table spoonful of milk or cream. Its exhibition should be followed at the end of six hours by mild physic.

113. FOR TAPE WORMS.

Abstain from supper; take a mixture on waking in the morning, and lie down until it operates.

114. FOR WORMS.

Sig. Teaspoonful morning and night.

CAUSTICS AND RUBEFACIENTS.

115. CHROMIC ACID.

Apply directly to warts, &c., to destroy them.

116. IODINE PAINT.

To be applied with a camel’s hair brush.

117. BURNT ALUM.

The alumen ustem is made by depriving the alum of its water of chrystalization by heat. It is applied in powder to fungous granulations of ulcers, and mixed with sugar is used to remove nebulous spots on the cornea.

118. FOR PRICKLY HEAT.

Apply daily by means of a camel’s hair brush or a sponge. It is applied after a morning bath, after the skin has been well rubbed with a towel, and it must be allowed to dry on the skin before dressing.

DIAPHORETICS.

119. A PLEASANT DIAPHORETIC IN FEVERS.

S. A table spoonful to be taken every two hours. Spirits of nitre may be added.

120. INFUSION OF BONESET.

Infuse for thirty minutes in a covered vessel; then decant and take a wineglassful every hour till there is free perspiration. The infusion must be taken hot as it can be drunk, otherwise it may produce vomiting.

121. DECOCTION OF BARLEY WATER WITH NITRE.

Make a drink to be drank warm by the patient.

122. MODIFIED DIAPHORETIC.

This and the following prescriptions in doses of from two to eight grains may be used as a

124. DIAPHORETIC AND EXPECTORANT.

S. Dessert spoonful every two hours. For colds and coughs.

DIURETICS.

125. NITRE, JUNIPER, AND ETHER.

One-sixth part every six hours.

126. DIURETIC AND LAXATIVE.

S. One-sixth part three times a day.

127. FOR CYSTITS—IRRITABLE CONDITION OF THE BLADDER.

Sig. This amount three times a day.

128. INFUSION OF UVA URSI.

Pour the water boiling hot on the leaves and let them macerate for several hours. To be taken cold, from half a pint to a pint daily. Chiefly used for irritable bladder and strangury.