To Remove Smell of Onions from the Breath
Wash the mouth with a weak solution of citric acid ; rinse with soda water.
Source: The Kansas Home Cook-Book
Sunstroke
Bind the head with wet cloths; wet another cloth, fold into a small square, cover thickly with salt, and apply to the back of the neck; apply dry salt behind the ears, and mustard plasters to the calves of the legs and soles of the feet. The salt is an Arabian remedy, and is very effective.
Source: The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper’s Guide, Mrs Washington
A Remedy For Boils
An excellent remedy for boils is water of a temperature agreeable to the feelings of the patient. Apply wet linen to the part affected and frequently renew or moisten it. It is said to be the most effectual remedy known. Take inwardly some good blood purifier.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
To Keep Out Red Ants
Place in the closet, or wherever they appear, a small quantity of green sage.
The Kansas Home Cook-Book
To Prevent Horses’ Feet from Scalding or Cracking
Coat the hoofs once a week with an ointment consisting of equal parts of soap fat, yellow wax, linseed oil, Venice turpentine, and Norway tar; melt the wax separately before mixing.
Source: The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper’s Guide, Mrs Washington
Diphtheria
A gargle of sulphur and water has been used with much success in cases of diphtheria. Let the patient swallow a little of the mixture. Or, when you discover that your throat is a little sore, bind a strip of flannel around the throat, wet in camphor, and gargle salt and vinegar occasionally.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Hemlock Poultice
Two drachms of dried hemlock; two pints of water boiled down to one; add sufficient linseed meal to make it of a proper consistency. Excellent for cancerous and scrofulous ulcers, and malignant sores.
Source: The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper’s Guide, Mrs Washington
To Get Rid Of Corns
Dress them every night with turpentine. After a fortnight or three weeks of this treatment, the corns, with their roots, will “tumble out.”
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts
Soreness of the Chest
White wadding folded in two or three thicknesses and bound on the chest. It is equally good in sore throat, or face, produced by cold.
Source: The Kansas Home Cook-Book
Arrowroot Wine Jelly
One cupful of boiling water, one scant tablespoonful of arrowroot, mixed with a little cold water, one tablespoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of brandy, or three tablespoonfuls of wine. Excellent for a sick person without fever.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette