Hiccough
An attack may often be stopped by holding the breath for half a minute or so and then breathing very slowly, or by a draught of cold water.
Source: The Complete Household Adviser
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The only treatment that does any good is to bathe the bruised part with cold water — the colder the better — to check the diffusion of blood through the tissues. The part should be kept as still as possible and not be rubbed. Applying a piece of raw meat to a black eye may not do any harm, but it certainly has no useful effect.
Source: The Complete Household Adviser
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Apply a suppository of linen dipt in Aqua Vitae.
Or, drink cold water, as largely as possible, taking nothing else till the flux stops.
Or, take a large apple, and at the top pick out all the core, and fill up the place with a piece of honey comb; (the honey being strained out,) roast the apple in embers, and eat it, and this will stop the flux immediately.
Or grated rhubarb, as much as lies on a shilling, with half as much of grated nutmeg, in a glass of white wine, at lying down, every other night. Tried.
Or take four drops of Laudanum, and apply to the belly a poultice of wormwood and red roses boiled in milk.
In a Dysentery, the worst of all fluxes, feed on rice, saloup, sago, and sometimes beef-tea; but no flesh.
To stop it, take a spoonful of suet melted over a slow fire. Do not let blood.
A person was cured in one day, by feeding on rice milk, and sitting a quarter of an hour in a shallow tub, having in it warm water three inches deep.
Source: Primitive Physic: or an easy and natural method of curing most diseases, John Wesley.
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Keep your feet in warm water a quarter of an hour before you go to bed, for two or three weeks. Tried.
Or wear tender Hemlock-Leaves under the feet, changing them daily.
Or order a tea-kettle of cold water to be poured on your head, every morning in a slender stream.
Or take a large tea-cupful of Carduus Tea, without sugar, fasting for six or seven mornings. Tried.
Source: Primitive Physic: or an easy and natural method of curing most diseases, John Wesley.
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