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Medicinesfor
Wise &
Rich Men
Medicinesfor
Wise & Rich Men…
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Table of Contents…
Cathartic PillsPain KillerWine BittersBlackberry BalsmHealing SalveEye WaterMagnetic OintmentOintment StramoniumFor HeartburnMagic OilToothacheSmith’s TonicWarner’s Safe CureCure for PilesCure for Small PoxTetter OintmentCure for DrunknessInflammatory RheumatismMountain SalveHop Bitters
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Cure for Drunkness
Suphate of Iron 5 grains
Magnesia 10 grains
Peppermint Water 11 drachms
Spirits of Nutmeg 1 drachm
Mix together well and use
twice a day. This preparation
acts as a tonic and stimulant,
and so partially supplies
the place of the accustomed
liquor, and prevents that
absolute physical and mental
prostration that follows a sud-
den breaking off from the use
of stimulating drinks.
Cathartic Pills
Extract Colacinth
Jolop
Calomel
Gamboge
Mix these ingredients
together and with water form
into mass and roll into 180
pills. Dose, one pill as a mild
laxative, two in vigorous
operations. Use in all bilious
diseases when purges are
necessary.
4
½ oz.
3 drachms
3 drachms
2 oz.
Pain Killer
Proof Alcohol
Chloroform
Oil Sassafras
Gum Camphor
Spirits of Ammonia
Oil of Cayenne
Mix well and let stand for 24
hours. Apply to affected area
as often as needed.
5
1 quart
1 drachm
1 oz.
1 oz.
1 drachm
2 drachms
Wine Bitters
Cinchona Bark
Gentian Bark
Jeniper Berries
Orange Peel
Lemon Peel
California Port Wine
Alcohol
Water
Mix all ingredients together
well. Digest or let stand ten
days, then filter and add Wine,
enough to preserve measure.
6
4 oz.
2 oz.
1 oz.
1 oz.
¼ oz.
4 pints
1 pint
3 pints
Blackberry Balsam
Blackberries
Water
Sugar
Jamaica Ginger
Alcohol
Syrup
Crush Blackberries and add
to boiling water. Add Sugar,
Jamaica Ginger, and Alcohol.
Mix and add syrup, enough to
make 16 ounces.
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2 lbs.
4 oz.
4 oz.
4 grains
2 oz.
Cure for Piles
Confection of Senna 2 oz.
Cream of Tartar 1 oz.
Sulphur 1 oz.
Syrup of Ginger varies
Mix ingredients together with
enough Syrup of Ginger to
make a stiff paste. A piece as
large as a nut is to be taken as
often as necessary to keep the
bowels open.
Healing Salve
Lard 1 lb.
Resin ½ lb.
Sweet Elder bark ½ lb.
Simmer over a slow fire for 4
hours, or until if forms a hard,
brown salve. This is for the
cure of cuts, bruises, boils, old
sores, and all like ailments.
Spread on a cotton cloth and
apply to the parts effected.
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Eye Water
Table Salt
White Vitriol
Soft Water
White Sugar
Blue Vitriol
Heat the Table Salt and White
Vitriol on earthen dish until
dry. Add soft water, White
Sugar, and Blue Vitriol. Should
this be too strong, add a little
more water. Apply to the eye 3
or 4 times a day.
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1 tsp.
1 tsp.
½ pint
1 tsp.
pea size
Healing Salve
Lard 1 lb.
Resin ½ lb.
Sweet Elder bark ½ lb.
Simmer over a slow fire for 4
hours, or until if forms a hard,
brown salve. This is for the
cure of cuts, bruises, boils, old
sores, and all like ailments.
Spread on a cotton cloth and
apply to the parts affected.
Magnetic Ointment
Elder Bark 1 lb.
Spikenard Root 1 lb.
Yellow Dock Root 1 lb.
Resin 8 lbs.
Beeswax 1 lb.
Boil Elder Bark, Spikenard
Root, and Yellow Dock Root
in two gallons of water until it
is boiled down to one gallon.
Then press the strength out of
the bark and roots and boil the
liquid down to ½ gallon. Add
Resin and Beeswax to soften.
Apply to the sores by spread-
ing on linin cloth.
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Ointment Stramonium
Stramonium Leaves 1 lb.
Lard 3 lbs.
Yellow Wax ½ lb.
Boil the Stramonium Leaves
in the Lard until they become
pliable, then strain through
linen. Lastly add the wax
previously melted and stir
until they are cold. This is a
useful anodyne application
in irritable ulcers, painful
hemorrhoids, and in
cutaneous eruptions.
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For Heartburn
Gum Arabic 1 oz.
Licorice Root 1 oz.
Magnesia ¼ oz.
Pulverize the Licorice Root
and mix with the Gum Arabic
and Magnesia. Add water to
make into lozenges. Let dis-
solve in mouth and swallow.
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Sweet Oil 1 gal.
Oil Hemlock 2 oz.
Oil Organum 2 oz.
Chloroform 2 oz.
Spirits Ammonia 4 oz.
Mix together well. Let stand
24 hours and it is ready for
use. Dose, internally, one
teaspoonful for adults. Bathe
the affected parts well. This is
a great remedy for aches and
pains, Rheumatism, Neu-
ralgia, and all nervous and
inflammatory diseases.
Magic Oil
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Toothache
Alum 4 oz.
Sweet Spirits of Nitre 14 oz.
Pulvarize the Alum and mix
with the Spirits of Nitre. This
is the most effective remedy
for toothache that was ever
discovered.
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Smith’s Tonic
Solution of Arsenic
Culiver’s Root
Syrup Orange Peel
Simple Syrup
Chinchonia
Aromatic Sulphuric Acid
Mix together the Solution of
Arsenic, Culiver’s Root, Syrup
Orange Peel, and Simple
Syrup. Then add Chinchonia
dissolved in Sulphuric Acid.
Shake to mix well.
15
2 drachms
1 oz.
4 oz.
12 oz.
40 grains
Wine Bitters
Cinchona Bark 4 oz.
Gentian Bark 2 oz.
Jeniper Berries 1 oz.
Orange Peel 1 oz.
Lemon Peel ¼ oz.
California Port Wine 4 pints
Alcohol 1 pint
Water 3 pints
Mix all ingredients together
well. Digest or let stand ten
days, then filter and add wine,
enough to preserve measure.
Warner’s Safe Cure
Smart Weed 4 lbs.
Soft Water 1 gal.
Acetate Potash 4 oz.
Sugar 4 lbs.
Alcohol 8 oz.
Boil Smart Weed in Soft
Water for one hour, strain
off, and add Acetate Potash
and sugar. Boil again till
sugar is dissolved, then add
alcohol and Flacor with Oil
of Wintergreen.
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Cure for Piles
Confection of Senna 2 oz.
Cream of Tartar 1 oz.
Sulphur 1 oz.
Syrup of Ginger varies
Mix all together with
enough Syrup of Ginger to
make a stiff paste. A piece as
large as a nut is to be taken as
often as necessary to keep the
bowels open.
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Warner’s Safe Cure
Smart Weed 4 lbs.
Soft Water 1 gal.
Acetate Potash 4 oz.
Sugar 4 lbs.
Alcohol 8 oz.
Boil Smart Weed in Soft Water
for one hour; then strain off
and add Acetate Potash and
Sugar. Boil again till sugar is
dissolved, then add Alcohol
and Flacor with Oil of Winter-
green.
Cure for Small Pox
Cream of Tartar 1 oz.
Water 1 pint
Dissolve the Cream of Tartar
in boiling waster. It is to be
drank when cold at intervals.
It can be taken any time, and
as a preventive as well as a
curative. It is known to have
cured thousands of cases
without a failure.
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Tetter Ointment
Spirits Turpentine 1 oz.
Red Precipitate 1 oz.
Burgundy Pitch 1 oz.
Hog’s Lard 1 lb.
Melt all of these ingredients
over a slow fire until the oint-
ment is formed. Stir until cold.
Spread on a linen rag and
apply to the parts affected.
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Ointment Stramonium
Stramonium Leaves 1 lb.
Lard 3 lbs.
Yellow Wax ½ lb.
Boil the Stramonium Leaves
in the Lard untile they become
pliable, then strain through
linen. Lastly add the was
previously melted and stir
until they are cold. This is a
useful anodyne application in
irritable ulcers, painful hem-
orrhoids, and in cutaneous
eruptions.
Cure for Drunkenness
Suphate of Iron 5 grains
Magnesia 10 grains
Peppermint Water 11 drachms
Spirits of Nutmeg 1 drachm
Mix together well and use
twice a day. This preparation
acts as a tonic and stimulant,
and so partially supplies the
place of the accustomed liquor,
and prevents that absolute
physical and mental prostra-
tion that follows a sudden
breaking off from the use of
stimulating drinks.
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Inflammatory Rheumatism
Salt Petre 1 oz.
Sweer Oil 1 pint
Pulverize the Salt Petre and
mix with the Sweet Oil. Bathe
the parts affected three times
a day with this mixture and a
speedy cure will be the result.
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Cure for Small Pox
Cream of Tartar 1 oz.
Water 1 pint
Dissolve the Cream of Tartar
in boiling water. Drink when
cold at intervals. It can be
taken at any time, and as a
preventive as well as a cura-
tive. It is known to have cured
in thousands of cases without
failure.
Mountain Salve
Beeswax 1 lb.
Soft Butter 1 lb.
Soft Turpentine 1 ½ lbs.
Balsam Fir 12 oz.
Mix all together, melt and
strain. Use this salve to heal
fresh wounds, burns, scalds,
and all bad sores.
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Hop Bitters
Hops 4oz.
Orange Peet 2 oz.
Cardamon 2 drachms
Cinnamon 1 drachm
Cloves ½ drachm
Alcohol 8 oz.
Sherry Wine 2 pints
Simple Syrup 1 pint
Grind the drugs, macerate
in the alcohol and wine for
one week, percolate and add
enough syrup and water to
make on gallon.
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