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This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
In addition, this page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
In addition, this page claims that clover tea cures cancer, including in its most malignant forms, and recommends swallowing chloroform for seasickness. Neither claim is true. Acting on the first would delay treatment that saves lives; chloroform is toxic and dangerous to swallow.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Cure for Cancer
The use of neutralizing mixture (see No. 5636) is a good clover tea is said to effect speedy and effectual preventive. So is a tea-spoonful of bicarboncures of cancer, even in its most malignant ate of soda in 1/21 pint of water. Take an form, and of long standing. The red clover aperient before a voyage. One of the best is used; the tops are boiled in water, and the means of counteracting the tendency to seatea is used externally and internally. About sickness, is to keep a horizontal position. A a quart a day should be administered internal- little chloroform has lately been suggested as ly, and the tea should be used as a wash twice a good remedy. 5 to 10 drops on a piece of