For Quinsy
From The botanic physician (1844).
Source and licence
From The botanic physician (1844), printed page 377, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/64230520R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- an ounce of wild indigo root
- a pound of sugar
- a pint of linseed oil
- two ounces of resin
Method
- To prevent its eoming on, take a tea spoonful of salt in the mouth, and as it dissolves, gargle the throat with it.
- Repeat this until the quinsy is dispersed.
- Take an ounce of wild indigo root, boil, strain, and' stir in meal, for a poultice to the neck, to subdue the inflammation.
- Also gargle with the indigo root decoction.
- Or, marsh mallows, in a decoction.
- To discuss the quinsy in its first stages, apply a plaster of four ounces, of hard soap, half a pound of sugar,, half a pint of linseed oil, and two ounces of resin.