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 : illustrated and explained by the discoverer / William Lee.

  • Lee, William, 1774 or 1775-1853.
Date:
1851
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    been obliged to yield to tbc remedy, though the use of a brush is sometimes necessary. A great many instances might be adduced of persons afflicted with this complaint who have been obliged to pass their winters, in great pain, within doors, but by its application have been able to enjoy themselves during the whole of the year. Gout and Rheumatic Gout.—These painful disorders being in the blood, it will be necessary that the person afflicted should have his or her crown of the head well rubbed with the remedy, once, on retiring to rest; the morning after take two table-spoonsful mixed with hot water, an hour before breakfast, which should be repeated for twelve or fourteen days, and the part inflamed, or where the pain is, touched with something soft, perhaps a feather, until the patient can bear to rub it with the finger. These are complaints which require great perseverance. Gravel.—Take a table-spoonful (diluted) three or four times a day. Burns and Scalds are very soon cured by tins remedy. The part afTected should be rubbed with the pure liquid. The first ap- plication is painful, but not of long continuance, and each applica- tion is less painful. The sore is soon cured, but sometimes it is necessary to apply something to soften the sore ; tallow or hog's lard is good, or anything else of a softening nature. Chilblains are cured by the application of this remedy ; but care should be taken that the part affected should be rubbed until perfectly dry. There is also another cure, which is simply washing the hands or feet in a strong ley of salt and water, and let it dry upon them. Insanity, or what is called Affection of the Nerves, which produces lowness of spirits, may be almost always prevented by rubbing the crown of the head twice or thrice with this remedy. But it ought to be well rubbed each time for ten minutes, or a quar- ter of an hour; and I think, in order to confirm the cure, two table- spoonsful should be taken for twelve mornings, tasting, diluted with hot water. Children of the age of four years, and under, are cured by rubbing the crown of the head only once. I have had so many proofs of it that I can speak with great confidence. There is only one case in which it was not successful, and that was an eruption on the skin ; in all other complaints, whether illness or weakness, it has been successful. There are many instances in the village near my castle; and those children are far more healthy and handsome than those who have not had their heads rubbed with the remedy. I hap- pened to call at one of my farms, and found three children in the ague ; they were in a state of great prespiration : the eldest was nine years old; the other two under three ; they were all rubbed upon the crown of the head. During the operation every one was better, and be-