MOTHERS' TOOTH POWDERS
Categories: Digestive Organs1. "The ashes of burnt branches of the common
grape vine make a very superior tooth powder. It will clean the blackest
of teeth, if continued for a few mornings, to that of pure white."
2. Tooth Powder. "Precipitated chalk four ounces, powdered orris root
eight ounces, powdered camphor one ounce; reduce camphor to fine powder
moistening with very little alcohol, add other ingredients. Mix thoroughly
and sift thr
3. Tooth Powder. "All tooth powders, or anything that has a grit will,
with the friction of the brush, scour loose from the enamel of the teeth;
and this is far superior to any of them in every respect.
Soap tree bark 1 pound
Turpentine 2 ounces
Powdered orris root 2 ounces
Alkanet root 1/2 ounce
Diluted alcohol, half water, sufficient to make the whole into one gallon.
Let it stand in an earthen jar to macerate for fourteen days; stir
occasionally, then strain and filter through filtering paper. The alcohol
will have no injurious effect. This is an excellent tooth remedy."
4. Tooth Wash. "One teaspoonful of boracic acid in a pint of boiling
water.
Tincture Myrrh 1/2 teaspoonful
Spirits of Camphor 1/2 teaspoonful
Essence of Peppermint 1/2 teaspoonful
Use in the water in which you brush your teeth. Let boracic acid water
cool, then add last three ingredients."
5. Tooth Powder. "Precipitated chalk four ounces, pulverized sugar two
ounces, powdered myrrh one ounce, pulverized orris root one ounce. Mix and
sift through fine bolting cloth. This is fine."
6. Tooth Powder, Commonly Used.
"Precipitated Chalk 12 drams
Rose Pink 2 drams
Carbonate of Magnesia 1 dram
Oil of Rose 5 drops
Mix all well together and after using it you will find the following
mouth-wash fine for rinsing out the mouth."
Antiseptic Mouth Wash.
"Boric Acid 10 grains
Resorcin 4 grains
Salol 2 grains
Thymol 1/2 dram
Glycerin 1/2 dram
Pure water 1 ounce
This sweetens and cleanses the mouth."
7. Tooth Powder, Simple and Unsurpassed.
Cream of Tartar, powdered 3 ounces
Cochineal 1 dram
Alum, powdered 4 drams
Myrrh 1 dram
Cinnamon 1 ounce
Sugar 1 ounce
Mix and pass through a sieve. This is a preparation that has no superior
for cleaning, preserving and whitening the teeth.
PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Toothache. 1. Chloretone dissolved in oil of
cloves and applied on a cotton wad is very good for toothache.
2. Creosote. Put on a piece of cotton and put this in the hollow tooth.
3. Toothache in an ulcerated or hollow tooth, caused from wet feet, etc.
Take a hot foot bath and drink a hot lemonade, hot ginger, or hot
pennyroyal tea, and go to bed and take a good sweat. Aching tooth needs
the care of a dentist. It pays to retain your natural teeth in good shape.
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MEDICINES
Homeopathic medicines should be kept in a dry cool place. Do not leave them standing open among odors or exposed to bright lights. The following are among those common for home use: List of Remedies. Aconitum Colocynthis ... MELANCHOLIA (Sad Mania)
Melancholia is a disease characterized by great mental depression. Causes--Predisposition, physical disease, dissipation, work and worry, shock, brooding. In simple melancholia the mildest attack may be called the "blues." ... MENINGITIS
This is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain alone, and generally commences with fever and severe headaches, with avoidance of light and noise as these are painful. In some cases we have delirium, stupor and coma. Treatment. Treatment ... MENINGITIS. Tubercular, (Basilar Meningitis)
This affection which is also known as acute hydrocephalus (meaning water on the brain), is essentially an acute tuberculosis in which the membranes of the brain, sometimes of the cord bear the brunt of the attack. It is more common in children than in ... Menorrhagia
Unusually heavy or extended menstrual flow. ... MENORRHAGIA
Too much bleeding at the monthly periods. If it occurs between the monthly periods it is called Metrorrhagia, womb-bleeding at any time, especially between the periods. Causes. These may be constitutional or local, the latter being the most important... MENORRHAGIA (too much flow)
Sabina 3X dil. pains between sacrum and pubic bones most, bright red blood. Ipecac 3X dil. especially when there is much nausea. China 3X dil. especially when it is a chronic case. WHITES, Leucorrhea. Pulsatilla 3X dil. In blondes. Sepia 6... MENSES, suppression of
Aconite 3X dil. when caused by cold. Caulophyllum 3X dil. can alternate this with aconite every hour. ... MENSTRUAL HEADACHES
These are very common. They may be regular every month, and they are then caused by some trouble with the womb or ovaries, or may be due to a run-down condition or heredity. It comes sometimes from suppression of the menses as a consequence of some viol... Menstruation
Many of the disorders of menstruation are due to carelessness and neglect of this function. There should be rest of both body and mind at this time, and especially at puberty. Rest is seldom allowed, but the daily routine is gone through, regardless of ... MENSTRUATION AND ITS DISORDERS
Normal menstruation occurs monthly in the female. There is a flow of blood from the cavity of the womb. The time for its beginning is different in different countries, it being earlier in warm climates, ten to twelve years, and later in cold ones (fifte... Menstruum
Solvent used to extract compounds from plant and animal tissues and preparing drugs. ... MERCURIC CHLORIDE. Symptoms
Burning heat in stomach and bowels, vomiting, diarrhea, with bloody stools, tongue white, shriveled, suppressed urine, gums sore, salivation. Antidote. Milk or white of eggs; one egg for four grains of drug, flour paste. Treatment. Cause vomiting ... Messaline
Lightweight, soft, shiny silk cloth with a twilled or satin weave. ... Methyl Salicylate
Liquid ester C8H8O3 obtained from the leaves of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) or the bark of a birch (Betula lenta); now made synthetically, and used as a flavoring and a counterirritant. ... Mezereon
Poisonous Eurasian ornamental shrub (Daphne mezereum) with fragrant lilac-purple flowers and small scarlet fruit. The dried bark of this plant was used externally as a vesicant (blistering agent) and internally for arthritis. ... Miliary
Appearance of millet seeds. Small skin lesions with the appearance of millet seeds. ... MILK LEG
This is due to infection. It usually arises from an extension of a blood clot (thrombosis) of the womb or pelvic veins, to the thigh (femoral) vein, resulting in a partial or complete obstruction of the vein. It may come in less frequent cases, from a l... Milk Poison, Popular Remedy for
Yellow Poplar Bark 4 ounces Wild Gooseberry Roots 4 ounces Slippery Elm Bark 4 ounces Put in an earthern vessel with two quarts of water; put over a slow fire and simmer to one pint, then strain and add it to one gallon o... MITCHELL'S EYE SALVE
Saxoline Snow White 175 grains White Wax 65 grains Zinc Oxide 22-1/2 grains Oxide of Mercury 2-1/2 grains Oil of Lavender 5 drops Melt the white wax and saxoline together, and stir ... MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY OR INCOMPETENCY
This is the most common valvular disease. The segments of the valve may be shortened and deformed. There is often stenosis (narrowing) caused by this deformity. The effects are regurgitation, flowing back of blood from the left ventricle into the left ... MITRAL STENOSIS
This is the narrowing of the valve opening. It is most common in young persons, chiefly females. The narrowing of the valve opening may be due to thickening or hardening of the valve segments, adhesion of their edges, thickening and contraction of the t... Moist Gangrene. Causes
Wounds, fractures, injuries, pressure from lying in bed and frost bite. PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Moist Gangrene. Remove the cause if possible. This kind is more dangerous, and a physician should be called as the best treatment that can be given is n... MOLE. (Naevus)
Mole is a congenital condition of the skin where there is too much pigment in a circumscribed place. It varies in size from a pin-head to a pea or larger. The face, neck and back are their usual abiding place. PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT for Moles. They sh... Mons Veneris
This is a rounded eminence surmounting the pubic bones, and is composed of fatty tissue, covered by skin and hair. ... MORPHINE HABIT. (Morphinomania--Morphinism)
This is usually acquired by the repeated use of the hypodermic syringe for pain. It is also used by the mouth or opium smoking. Symptoms. At first it causes a sense of well-being and exhilaration, but it must be gradually increased to produce the res... MORPHINE. Symptoms
Excitement at first, soon weariness, weighty limbs, sleepiness, pin-point pupils, pulse and breathing slow and strong; patient roused with difficulty and later it is impossible; snoring breathing. Treatment. This is a dangerous poison. A stomach pump ... MOTHER SIEGEL'S SYRUP
Conc. Decoction of Aloes (1 to 4) 60.0 m. Borax 1.3 gm. Capsicum, Powdered 0.13 gm. Gentian, Powdered 2.3 gm. Sassafras Oil 0.3 gm. ... MOTHERS' REMEDIES
1. Pregnancy, A Great Aid for. "Soothing syrup or Mother's friend, while pregnant. Two ounces each of cramp bark, blue cohosh, slippery elm, raspberry leaves, squaw vine, orange peel and bitter root. Simmer gently in sufficient water to keep herbs cover... MOTHERS' REMEDIES FOR PILES. Sulphur and Glycerin for
"Equal parts of sulphur and pure glycerin. Grease parts." This preparation is very healing, and will often give relief even in severe cases. 2. Piles, Strongly Recommended Remedy for. Extract Belladonna 15 grains Acetate lead ... MOTHERS' REMEDIES for Toothache, Dry Salt and Alum for
1. "Equal parts. Take common salt and alum. Mix and pulverize these together, wet a small piece of cotton and cause the mixture to adhere to it and place in the hollow tooth. At first a sensation of coldness will be produced, which will gradually disap... MOTHERS' REMEDIES. 1. Asthma, Raspberry Tincture for Adults
"Take a half pound of honey, one cup water; let these boil, take off the scum; pour boiling hot upon one-half ounce lobelia herb and one-half ounce cloves; mix well, then strain and add one gill of raspberry vinegar. Take from one teaspoonful to a dess... MOTHERS' REMEDIES. Bronchitis, Camphor and Lard for
1. "Grease a cloth well with lard to which has been added some camphor gum, then sprinkle on some dry baking soda and lay it on the chest. The camphor and lard should be made into a salve, then put on the soda. The lard and camphor gum penetrates the a... MOTHERS' REMEDIES. Constipation
1. Constipation, a Good Substitute for Pills and Drugs"Two ounces each of figs, dates, raisins, and prunes (without pits) one-half ounce senna leaves. Grind through meat chopper, and mix thoroughly by kneading. Break off pieces (about a level teaspoonf... MOTHERS' REMEDIES. Croup, Cold Application for
"Apply to throat a flannel wrung out of cold water, lay a dry cloth over it." This is an excellent remedy for a mother to try in case of an emergency when no other medicine can be obtained. This very often will relieve a child until other remedies can ... MOTHERS' REMEDIES. Dry Cough and Tickling
l. "Raspberry Tincture. Take one-half pound of honey, one cup water; let these boil; take off scum; pour boiling hot upon one-half ounce lobelia herb and one-half ounce cloves; mix well, then strain and add one gill of raspberry vinegar. Take from one... MOTHERS' TOOTH POWDERS
1. "The ashes of burnt branches of the common grape vine make a very superior tooth powder. It will clean the blackest of teeth, if continued for a few mornings, to that of pure white." 2. Tooth Powder. "Precipitated chalk four ounces, powdered orris ... Motherwort
Eurasian plants of the genus Leonurus, especially L. cardiaca, a weed having clusters of small purple or pink flowers. ... MOUTH AND TEETH
Many young people owe their homely mouths to infantile habits. Sucking the thumb, and these horrible "pacificators" or "baby comforters" are responsible for some ill-shaped mouths. A large mouth, if not malformed, is not ugly unless filled with bad teet... MOVABLE KIDNEY. (Floating Kidney. Nephroptosis)
Causes. This condition is usually acquired. It is more common in women than in men, possibly due to lacing and the relaxations of the muscles of the abdomen from pregnancy. It may come from wounds, lifting too heavy articles, emaciation. Symptoms. T... Mugwort
Aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. vulgaris, native to Eurasia; used as a condiment. ... Mullein
Eurasian plants of the genus Verbascum, especially V. thapsus. Also called flannel leaf, velvet plant. ... Multiple Neuritis
Other names: Polyneuritis, Disseminated Neuritis, Peripheral Neuritis. Meaning--Multiple neuritis is an inflammatory disease of the peripheral (toward the end of the nerves or external nerves) nervous system. It varies much in extent and intensity and a... MUMPS
The swelling is in front and below and behind the ear. Hard to eat and the swallowing of vinegar is almost impossible. ... MUMPS
Mercurius 3X trit. (tablet form). Tablet everyone to three hours. Pulsatilla 3X dil. When it goes down. Give every hour. ... MUMPS (Parotitis)
This is an acute infectious disease of one or both of the parotid glands, located at the angle of the jaw, and extending up to the ear, and, also, to other salivary glands. It appears only once. One attack gives immunity. It may come at any age; but app... Muriate
Chloride; compound of chlorine with another element or radical; especially, a salt or ester of hydrochloric acid called. myrrh Aromatic gum resin from trees and shrubs of the genus Commiphora of India, Arabia, and eastern Africa, used in pe... MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM
This is a very painful affection of the voluntary muscles, called also neuralgia, or according to its location, torticollis (stiff neck, wry neck), pleurodynia, lumbago (rheumatism in the back). Causes. Predisposed to it by previous attacks, having a ... MUSTARD (Sinapis)
Mustard flour, two tablespoonfuls to a glass of water, acts as an emetic. If given largely it produces violent gastritis, and chronic gastritis is often set up by its constant use in excess. It should not be used in acute dyspepsia and bowel irritation.... Mustard Plaster (sinapism)
Medicinal plaster made with a paste-like mixture of powdered black mustard, flour, and water, used as a counterirritant. ... MYELITIS
Myelitis is an inflammation of the spinal cord. Causes. It may occur at any age, and is more common in male than in female. The exciting causes are prolonged exposure to severe colds, too great mental and physical exertion, sexual excess, blows, bleed... MYOCARDITIS
This is an inflammation of the muscle substance of the heart. It may be acute or chronic. Causes. Endocarditis and pericarditis in the course of rheumatism; acute fevers like typhoid, etc.; clots lodging in the heart arteries, coming from diseases su... MYXOEDEMA
This is a constitutional disease due to atrophy (wasting away) of the thyroid gland and characterized by swollen condition of the tissue under the skin, wasting of the thyroid and mental failures. Three forms exist, myxoedema proper, cretinism and opera... Nainsook
Soft lightweight muslin used for babies. ... Naphthalene (naphthaline, Tar Camphor)
White crystalline compound, C10H8, derived from coal tar or petroleum and used in manufacturing dyes, moth repellents, and explosives and as a solvent. ... NARROWING (Aortic Stenosis)
Caused by chronic endocarditis, etc. Their valve segments are usually adherent to each other by their margins and are thickened and distorted. Symptoms. When compensation is gone, diminished blood in the brain causes dizziness and faintness. ... Nausea and Vomiting
Another symptom upon which considerable dependence is placed is the morning sickness (nausea and vomiting). While this symptom is common, yet its absence does not prove that the woman is not pregnant. Some women go through the whole pregnancy without an... Nebulize
To convert a liquid to a fine spray; atomize. To treat with a medicated spray. ... Nephritis
Various acute or chronic inflammations of the kidneys, such as Bright's disease. ... Neroli
An essential oil made by distilling the flowers of the orange; it is used in perfume. ... NERVE TUMORS (Neuroma)
A morbid increase in the tissue-elements of the peripheral (the external surface) nerves. Varieties. True and False Nerve Tumors. True nerve tumors (neuromata) are composed of nerve-fibres provided with a medullary (marrow) sheath or of nerve tissue;... NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA
This is acquired from over work, worry, excitement, hurried or irregular meals, or inherited. It shows itself in all sorts of symptoms and they must be met as they come. Diet the same as for general dyspepsia, never eat when you are tired, rest after ea... NERVOUS HEADACHE
This may occur as a sick headache or be simply a nervous headache: This occurs oftenest in a nervous person, or in persons who are run down by different causes, such as diseases, overwork, worry, trouble, etc. It is not periodic, and has no fixed type, ... NERVOUS PROSTRATION
Is a condition of weakness or exhaustion of the nervous system, giving rise to various forms of mental and bodily inefficiency. Causes. 1. Hereditary causes. Some children are born of parents who are weak themselves, and who have led fast lives throu... Nervous System
The nervous system is over sensitive and the disposition of the woman may undergo a radical change, mental exaltation and depression are often exhibited. ... Nervous System and the Mind
The pregnant woman is very susceptible to annoying conditions of the social and domestic surroundings; such should be removed, if possible, and excitement of every kind should be avoided. Everything should be made bright and comfortable around her, chee... NERVOUSNESS
Tincture Chloride of Iron 1 ounce Aromatic Spirits Ammonia 1 ounce Compound Spirits Lavender l ounce Mix. Good when run down. Dose: Fifteen drops four times a day. People suffering from nervousness, fainting spells or s... NEURALGIA
Pain occurring in the course of the nerves and in their area of distribution. The pain has remission and intermissions, and is due to some morbid affection of the nerves of sensation or their spinal or (brain) centers. Causes. The affection may depen... NEURALGIA
Acetanilid 160 grains Sodium Bicarbonate 15 grains Tartaric Acid 5 grains Simple Elixir 4 ounces Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful at a dose. Should not take more than two doses. Shake bottle. The above amou... Neuralgia of the Rectum
This may sometimes result from the pressure of the fecal mass upon the nearby nerves causing pain in the sacrum coccyx (bones). ... NEURALGIA OF THE STOMACH (Cardialgia, Gastralgia, Gastrodynia)
This is a severe pain in paroxysms in the region of the stomach. Causes. The patients are of a nervous type. They may have anemia, exhaustion from sickness and bleedings, the menstruation be at fault. Grief, worry and anxiety. Symptoms. The attac... Neuralgia, Soothing Ointment for
"One ounce of laudanum, baking soda to make paste." Apply to parts and cover with flannel." Its virtue is in its soothing and quieting action. ...