Old age (also refers to as one’s old) consist of age nearing or surpassing the average life span of human being and thus the end of the human life cycle. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. She’s a managing editor for the historical imprints of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas and the author of almost a dozen published novels and a number of novellas.Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Represented by Hartline Literary Agency, Denise Weimer holds a journalism degree with a minor in history from Asbury University. I can’t imagine the fear involved in facing them two hundred years ago. These bronchial illnesses are scary enough today. The pine bark or an infusion of crushed needles combined with the inner bark and young shoots was often applied to the chest on a hot cloth. Coughs might have been treated by inner bark of wild cherry, white pine, spicebush, or redbud, butterfly weed root, or bloodroot decoction. Native American remedies for bronchitis included a tea of boiled pleurisy root. Pleurisy was an inflammation of the membrane covering the lung and presented with pain in the chest with each breath and inflammation of the membrane covering inside of the thorax with fever, pain, and cough. Diet called for milk, broth, eggs, and alcohol. Opium and Dover’s powder might have been prescribed for pain and cough. Linseed poultice could be applied, bound tight and covered with oiled silk.
#Mustard plaster for pleurisy skin
If the entire lung was affected, the patient might present blue skin and high fever. Pneumonia was an inflammation of the lung itself and was termed “lung fever.” It often started with a pronounced chill and a sharp pain on one side, then an intense fever and breathing that became hurried and painful. Chronic bronchitis could also worsen to consumption, called “lung sickness.”
1808 included garlic, pepper, cinnamon, turpentine, coffee, ipecac, and potassium nitrate. Several complicated receipts could be consulted for dry cough.Ĭhronic bronchitis occurred most often in smokers or heavy drinkers and could lead to pneumonia if the bronchitis was bacterial. Cough remedies might include a mixture of croton and olive oil or tincture of iodine applied to the chest to loosen mucus. Warm clothing such as wool, flannel, or silk garments next to the skin covered in buckskin was suggested. A change of climate was often advocated to someplace warm and dry. The general health was not affected as long as the disease remained in the bronchial mucous membrane. This rarely involved pain but at most an uneasy sensation under the breastbone. Whew! What a recipe.Īcute bronchitis could turn chronic with the persistent cough and expectoration remaining.
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As soon as expectoration became easier, patients could take a quarter teaspoon syrup of ipecac every hour, or, if the cough was violent, two drachm nitrate of potash, two ounces syrup of squills, half a drachm tincture of digitalis, sugar, two drachms gum Arabic in water, to make six ounces with a teaspoon in a wineglass full of water, sipped every ten or fifteen minutes. The cough could be loosened by a half teaspoon of the compound syrup of squills every two hours. If there was pain and soreness in the chest, a light mustard plaster could be applied over the breastbone. Treatment included a hot foot bath, hot toddy or lemonade with ten grains of Dover’s powder (ipecac, powdered opium, and potassium sulfate, which often produced sweating to defeat a cold or fever) applied before tightness of the chest set in. Before antibiotics and the ability to give oxygen, and even the invention of the stethoscope in 1816, what treatments were offered? Below is a primer of terms and treatments for lung sickness in the Colonial and Federal periods.īronchitis was popularly called “a cold on the chest.” In 1814, a British physician became the first to use the term to denote inflammatory changes in the mucous membrane. A good bit of my writing is set in the first two decades of the 1800s, and several of my characters face sickness of this sort. These days, we’re hearing a lot about pneumonia that develops from COVID.
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