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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    crushcil by a cart, mentioned in my last year's address, and who had a part of one of his fingers taken off. It was applied as to any common sore, by wrapping a piece of soft linen, saturated with the remedy, upon the sore and kept humid, by wetting it several times a day. Boils and Abscesses should be covered with a piece of soft linen, saturated with the remedy, and kept wet. By this means though it does not prevent or retard the bursting of the boil or ab- scess, it very much relieves the pain by removing the inflammation. Cuts.—As a tincture, I do not think that this remedy has its equal, giving very little pain when first applied, and curing in a short time. Any person will know that the application should be made by saturating a piece of linen in the remdey, and wrapping it round the part cut, which must be very severe if there is occasion to remove, the linen till the cure is effected. But it should be kept always moist by adding a little of the remedy several times each day. Whitlow may be cured by either holding the finger in the rem- edy, or saturating a piece of soft linen with it, and wrapping it round the sore. But it should be kept we,t until the cure is effected. Lumbago, though comprised under the head of Rheumatism, it is well to observe, is generally removed by rubbing the part. But if it cannot be removed by that means, or it returns again, 1 should re- commend the patient to have the crown of the head well rubbed once, on retiring to rest, with the remedy, and then taking, for seve- ral mornings, an hour before breakfast, two table-spoonsful of the remedy, diluted with hot water. Jaundice, I believe, may be cured by rubbing the crown of the head once, on retiring to rest, and taking two table-spoonsful, diluted with hot water, for several mornings, an hour before breakfast, until the complaint disappears, which I expect it will do in eight or ten days. Liver Complaints and Affections of the Heart can only be removed by putting the intestines in a healthful state, which may be effected by rubbing the crown of the head once, on retiring to rest, and each morning taking two table-spoonsful of the remedy, di- luted with hot water, an hour before breakfast; perhaps it requires to be taken for months before the complaints are cured. But pre- vention is always better than cure, therefore the intestines should be kept healthy, and the blood pure. Sores of long standing are relieved, and very often cured, by this remedy, by saturating soft linen with it, and applying it to the sore. After three or four applications it always relieves the pain ; and the most obstinate setfasts are removed, and that without pain, in a few days, and the sore becomes clean, not only from that, but