Vomiting of Blood.—Sugar, alum whey; drink a tea made from beth root, and black cohosh, and use anti-dyspeptic pills to keep the bowels in order. Also, the restoration cordial; apply strengthening plaster to the pit of the stomach.
Dropsy of the Chest.—First, take two drachms of digitalis plant, divide into twelve powders of ten grains each; after this, add fourteen tablespoonsful of boiling water; take one tablespoonful every hour, or two every two hours.
2d. 3 grains mandrake, night and morning.
3d. Bathe the stomach and abdomen night and morning with precipitate ointment.
4th. Drink an infusion of parsley tea.
Let the diet be light and nutritious.
Bleeding at the Nose.—Dried beef, pulverized, and snuff up the nose.
Cramp in the Stomach.—Ten drops oil of hemlock; camphor, peppermint, laudanum, and apply hops to the stomach.
Dropsy.—Take common whortleberries, dried and bruised, four ounces, and add a small quantity of boiling water. Likewise, mandrake, cream tartar, peppermint plant, equal parts; of this powder give a large teaspoonful every few hours until it operates; drink freely of a decoction made from spearmint, parsley, elder flowers, dandelion roots and tops; give capsicum pills.
To Relieve Spasm.—Steep angelica seed; for an injection take of this infusion one pint, to which add one teaspoonful of salt, one gill of olive oil, one gill of molasses, and one pint of milk.