In this exigency, have recourse to the following simple but excellent remedy.
No. XXXVI
Take a pipkin, or a tin sauce-pan, with a quart of water, a pint of vinegar, and two spoonfuls of honey; then take a funnel that will pretty well cover the vessel; then take a piece of iron, or some old nails, or a little stone, or what you have handy; heat it red hot, and put it into the pipkin, and put on the funnel so that steam may ascend through it. Over this let the patient hold his mouth, so that he breathes nothing but the steam; and to secure it the better, put something over his head, that he may reap the more the benefit of it. When the steam ceases, heat it again as before. Instead of heating it with the iron, it may be shifted with boiling, but the former is generally more handy.
In the mean time, if the patient should by the inflammation, be deprived of all nutriment, recourse must be had to nourishing clysters: milk in this respect is the best; but in want of that, fowl broth may be used; and if that is wanting, take water gruel. Milk however is superior to all: I shall give a receipt of each kind.
No. XXXVII
Take milk and water, of each a pint; cinamon (16), one drachm; boil them and strain the liquor; then dissolve one ounce and an half of good loaf sugar; add six drops, of the essential oil of peppermint (U), upon a little lump of sugar.
No. XXXVIII
Take half a fowl, bruise the bones, and cut the flesh small; this boil in three pints of fresh water, with about one drachm of cinamon; strain it clear, and add as before, an ounce of sugar, with a few drops of the oil of peppermint.—A tea cupful of good white wine may be added, if the patient is very weak, and not feverish.
No. XXXIX
Take oatmeal, two spoonfuls; malt, one spoonful; cinamon, two drachmes. Boil it in two quarts of water for some time, till when it is strained, it becomes one quart; put to it fine sugar, six ounces; a few drops of essential oil of peppermint, and a tea cupful of good wine.