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Cure for Cholera Morbus.
Put a table-spoonful of hot ashes in half a pint of good hard cider, and give
the patient three table-spoonsful of it at a time. This has given relief in half
an hour.
Another cure is to take a soft cork and burn it thoroughly; when it ceases to
blaze, powder the coal very fine on a plate. Mix a table-spoonful of this powder
with a little milk or water, or any thing agreeable to the palate; repeat the
dose till the disorder ceases, which it generally does after two or three doses.
This has given relief to a person in the greatest agony with the bilious colic.
For Colic.
Drink strong ginger tea, while hot, and put hot bricks to the stomach and feet;
if this does not give relief, take a dose of rhubarb or castor oil. Persons
subject to the colic should keep a piece of ginger about them to chew after
eating; wear flannel next the skin, and be careful to keep the feet dry: they
should avoid strong coffee and tea, and eat nothing that disagrees with them.
Dry toast without butter, and crackers, are good for persons that have the
colic.
For violent cases, take two table-spoonsful of brandy, and half a tea-spoonful
of black pepper.
For Bilious Colic and Indigestion.
Pour three quarts of boiling water on a quart of hickory ashes and a tea-cup of
soot; let it stand a day, then filter it, and if the complaint is bad, take a
wine-glassful before and after each meal. This has been very beneficial to
persons with the above complaint.
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