The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro.

  • Munro, Aeneas.
Date:
1873
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Credit: The science and art of nursing the sick / by Aeneas Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on the egg, stirring all the time, till they are thoroughly mixed. Serve with toast or a biscuit. Butter-Milk When butter-milk cannot be procured fresh and good, it may be readily prepared by putting a quart of new milk (or cream) into a bottle which would hold half-a-gallon; cork the bottle tightly; roll a towel round it, so that by pulling each end alternately the bottle is made to roll along the table upon its side. Every now and again during the process the bottle ought to be opened to admit fresh air into it. It is then to be corked again, and continued till the butter is separated, which is known by appearing in little lumps. The butter should then be separated from the butter-milk, which is a wholesome, delicious, and cooling beverage in feverish conditions of the system, and may be drunk ad libitum. To obtain it fresh this quantity may be made daily when it cannot be got from the dairy in a fresh state. Barley-Water. Itigredients.—Two-and-a-half oz. pearl barley, four-and-a-half pints soft water. Mode.—Wash the barley with cold water first, so as to remove all foreign matter ; then pour half-a-pint of the water, and boil for fifteen or twenty minutes. Pour this water off and cast it away, and, having boiled the remaining four pints, pour it on the barley and boil down to two, and strain. This is a capital demulcent drink ; and sometimes milk and sugar, or figs (two-and-a-half oz. sliced), or one-half oz. liquorice, or two-and-a-half oz. raisins, may be added, either as a nourish- ing drink or to refresh, soothe, and allay irritation. Toast-Water. Toast thoroughly, but do not burn, a slice of a loaf one or two days old; put it into a jug, and pour over it a quart of water which has been boiled ; after standing two hours, strain.