Important: Safety Warning
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.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Lime Water
Take of lime, 2 ounces; distilled water, 2 quarts. Slack the lime with a little of the water; pour on the remainder of the water and stir them together; then immediately cover the vessel and let it rest for 4 hours. Keep the solution, with the undissolved lime, in glass-stoppered bottles, and when wanted for use, pour off the clear liquor. It is an anti-acid tonic, kills worms, and frees the bowels from slimy and morbific matter. It promotes digestion; it is valuable in looseness, scrofula, diabetes, and consists of water in which a certain whites. Mixed with a decoction of Peruvian fixed quantity of a soluble substance has bark, it wonderfully strengthens the debilita- been dissolved. (See No. 29). ted, and those threatened with atrophy. olutions. In pharmacy, a solution Solutions. 4770. Solution of Acetate of Mor-