Leanness
Leanness is caused generally by lack of power in the digestive organs to digest and assimilate the fat-producing elements of food. First restore digestion, take plenty of sleep, drink all the water the stomach will bear in the morning on rising, take moderate exercise in the open air, eat oatmeal, cracked wheat, graham mush, baked sweet apples, roasted and broiled beef, cultivate jolly people, and bathe daily.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Bleeding of Gums
Rinse mouth with alum water — 1 teaspoon powdered alum in a glass of ice water; or 1 tsp. tincture of myrrh in 1 tbsp. water.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
Itching
For itching which affects the whole body, give a bath; apply sulphur ointment.
Sulphur ointment is made by rubbing 2 tbsp. flowers of sulphur into a dessertspoonful of lard.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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Prepared chalk half a pound, powdered myrrh two ounces; camphor two drachms, orris root, powdered, two ounces; moisten the camphor with alcohol and mix well together.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Lice in Hair (Pediculosis)
Wash hair with kerosene, leaving it on over night; or use tincture of larkspur in the same way.
Perhaps the best remedy is fishberries.
Five cents worth of the berries may be boiled in 1 pint water for ten minutes.
Wash hair next day after using any of these remedies.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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Caused sometimes by bad teeth, but generally by cold or hardened ear wax.
Hold ear over cloth wrung out of hot water, on which are several drops of alcohol. Syringe ear with warm bicarbonate of soda water — 1 tsp. to a cup; or peroxide of hydrogen water — 1 tbsp. to a cup of water.
One drop laudanum, or one drop arnica to three drops very warm olive oil, dropped into ear with a medicine dropper, often relieves pain; or cotton may be saturated with the warm olive oil and placed in the ear and covered with dry cotton. To prevent hardening of wax: keep ear anointed with ordinary red vaseline (unbleached vaseline). For watery discharge of ear, dust with dry boric acid.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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