Ointment of common thickness

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Historical use wording: is completed, which will be in the course of three or four months

Source: Madame Young's Guide to Health by Amelia Young (1858), narrative-offset-120371.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• common thickness: the poke-weed leaves, any time in the summer, pound and squeeze out the juice

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: This has effected cures, in many instances, where the cancers were of an inveterate kind and of long duration, and has never failed of success. SALT RHEUM OR SCURVY.--Take the poke-weed leaves, any time in the summer, pound and squeeze out the juice; strain it into a pewter basin, and set in the sun until it becomes a salve; then put it into an earthen mug and add fresh butter and beeswax, sufficient to make an ointment of common thickness; simmer the whole over the fire, and keep constantly stirring it until it is thoroughly mixed; when cold, rub the part affected twice a day, till the cure is completed, which will be in the course of three or four months; the patient will soon experience its good effects. WHOOPING COUGH.--Take a good handful of dry colts-foot leaves, cut them small and boil them in one quart of spring water to half a pint, then take it off the fire, and when it is almost cold, strain it clean through a cloth, squeezing the herbs as dry as you can; then dissolve in it one ounce of brown sugar candy, finely powdered, and give a child three or four years old one spoonful, cold or warm, according to the season, and so in proportion to the age and strength, three or four times a day (or oftener if the fits of coughing come frequently,) till well, which will be in two or three days; it will soon abate the fits of coughing.

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