The use of brandy and salt, as a remedy for various internal as well as external diseases, inflammation and local injuries : containing ample directions for making and applying it / explained by Samuel Fenton and Wm. Lee.

  • Fenton, Samuel.
Date:
1842
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    in the open air as possible. This, I believe, will be found the most effectual means of removing pains in the face or elsewhere, originating in nervous debility. Earache is cured the same as the Toothache, by filling the ear with the remedy. This is rather a pleasant opera- tion, and calculated to do great good in other respects. Deafness is greatly relieved, and very often cured, by the same method, filling the ear with the remedy. I have known it to be of great use in several instances; and since I have filled my ears with it I can hear with greater clear- ness. The best time is upon retiring to rest. Fill first the ear which is the least affected with deafness, and let it re- main in for ten minutes ; after which fill the other ear, and let it remain in the ear all night. It conduces very much to sound sleeping. Teeth are preserved by putting a little of the remedy, once each week or fortnight, upon the tooth brush when it is used. This will also remove any soreness which may be in the teeth from eating sour fruit, or any other cause. Gum Boils are cured by saturating a piece of fine linen with the remedy, and applying it to the part, betwixt the gums and the cheek. The best time is upon retiring to rest, and letting it remain the whole of the night; this will re- move the most violent pain. But the same operation re- quires to be repeated several nights to remove the boil and prevent the teeth from becoming loose. Eruptions upon the Face and Head are generally re- moved by rubbing the part with the remedy. If they are of a cancerous nature, and of a few weeks' standing, the re- medy gives no pain, and the cure is effected with surprising facility; but to all other descriptions of eruptions it gives pain. Ague, or Intermitting Fevers, are cured by rubbing the head once, on retiring to rest, and next morning taking two table-spoonsful, diluted with six table-spoonsful of hot water for a man, and half the quantity for a female, an hour before breakfast. It should be repeated for twelve morn- ings, or until the disorder is subdued.