All this boiled about an hour and half in eight or ten pound of water; Then I strained and pressed out the decoction (which was a little viscous, as I desired) and had between 4 and five pound of strong decoction.
You may make your Syrup with a strong decoction of Apples in water (as when you make gelly of Pippins) when they are green; but when they are old and mellow, the substance of the Apple will dissolve into pap, by boiling in water.
Another remedy is to use spirits of turpentine after scraping; and if the disease is of long standing, add to the turpentine a strong decoction of blue vitriol dissolved in water.
If the wound be slight, and the weather moderate, apply a little spirits of turpentine with a strong decoction of elder bark.
As a lotion carbolic acid, 1 ounce in a quart of strong decoction of oak bark, should be used, or salicylic acid or salol may be sprinkled on the surface.
After making sure that it is simply a dropsical collection it may be deeply punctured at various points with a large-sized lancet or knife, fomented with hot water, and then daily treated with a strong decoction of white-oak bark.
For sore nipple: two ounces (fresh, if possible) and make a strong decoction in a pint of boiling water.
Make a strong decoction of hop tea, and take a wineglassful every half hour until relieved.
Nose-bleed and bleeding from teeth extraction:--Apply the powder or strong decoction to the part.
This may be relieved by sitting over the steam of a strong decoction of tansy, wormwood, and yarrow, and fomenting the abdomen with the same.
From a strong decoction or infusion of the root, and lump sugar, 1 pint to 8 or 10 lbs.
A strong decoction of catechu; the shade may be varied by the cautious addition of a little weak solution of bichromate of potash.
A strong decoction of Nettles drunk too freely by mistake has produced severe burning over the whole body, with general redness, and a sense of being stung.
A strong decoction of the root and leaves, sweetened with honey, has been taken successfully to cure scrofulous sores, being administered two or three times a day in doses of a wineglassful persistently for several months.
A strong decoction of oak bark is most usefully applied for prolapse of the lower bowel.
Externally, compresses saturated with a strong decoction of the plant when applied to the chest, have been used beneficially for chronic bronchitis.
Pale-colored woods are stained in imitation of ebony by washing them with, or steeping them in a strong decoction of logwood or galls, allowing them to dry, and then washing them over with a solution of the sulphate or acetate of iron.
A strong decoction of logwood, to which a little alum or chloride of tin has been added.
To preserve all these from destruction by insects, wash them in a strong decoction of bitter or offensive herbs, or with whale-oil soap-suds; tobacco is very effectual.
The most general remedy is to wash trees or plants with a strong decoction of some offensive herb, or with whale-oil soapsuds.
A strong decoction, used in washing animals, will destroy lice on horses and cattle, and ticks on sheep.
Sows are prevented from destroying their young by quiet, plenty of food, and little animal food, and but a very little straw in a dry pen, or washing the pig's backs with a strong decoction of aloes.
When caterpillars attack fruit trees, they may be destroyed by a strong decoction of equal quantities of rue, wormwood, and tobacco, sprinkled on the leaves and branches while the fruit is ripening.
In this case, sprinkle the places they frequent with a strong decoction of walnut-tree leaves; or take half a pound of sulphur, and a quarter of a pound of potash, and dissolve them together over the fire.
Black dye is obtained from a strong decoction of logwood, copperas, and gum arabic.
The dry itch requires a vegetable diet, and the liberal use of anti-scorbutics: the parts affected may be rubbed with a strong decoction of tobacco.
Pringle, a strong Decoction of it, with some of the Tincture, in these Malignant Fevers.
A strong decoction (one ounce of the bark boiled for a few minutes in a pint of water) makes a good wash for old sores.
A strong decoction is useful to arrest hemorrhage.
A strong decoction of the fresh roots will generally act as a cathartic on all classes of animals.
A strong decoction makes an excellent wash for diseases of the skin, in all classes of domestic animals.
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