Salve
Four ounces of mutton-tallow, two of beeswax, one of rosin, and one-half ounce of gum camphor. Simmer well together; take off the fire, and then add one gill of alcohol. Good for all kinds of sores and wounds.
Source: The Universal Cookery Book, Gertrude Strohm
Bleeding, To Stop
Take some agaric (that is, the fungus known as touchwood), beat it into a pulp and apply to the wound. The fungus will be found growing on the branches of the oak and other trees, and is best gathered in the autumn, when the weather is fine, and after periods of great heat.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Whooping Cough
1 oz. powdered alum
1 quart boiling water
Stir well till dissolved. Sweeten freely with golden syrup (the best), add 6 drops of essence of peppermint. For an infant, 1 teaspoonful frequently; for an older child, 1 dessertspoonful frequently. This remedy is invaluable.
Source: The Northampton Cookery Book, M.A. Jeffery
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Useful in the Spring, or in slight Fevers, or Colds.
Pour 3 quarts of boiling water over 1 1/2 oz. of cream of tartar, 1 oz. Epsom salts, 3/4 lb. lump sugar, the peel of 3 lemons, and the juice of 1; cover close half an hour, then boil up, skim and strain it through thin muslin, into decanters.
A wine-glassful before breakfast.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
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The common meadow plant, Ladies’ Slipper, used as tea, is good for spasms, hysteria, cramps, nervous headache, fits, neuralgia, hypochondria, fevers, colic, debility, &c., and, wherever it is required to quiet the nervous system, is safer than opium and will act where opium fails. One ounce to a pint of boiling water.
Source: Fray’s Golden Recipes for the use of all ages, E. Fray
Laxity of the Bowels with Pain
Brandy, half a quartern; syrup of rhubarb, one ounce and a half; tincture of rhubarb, one ounce; essence of peppermint, three-quarters of an ounce; laudanum, a quarter of an ounce. Dose: A dessert-spoonful in a glass of warm water.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Tooth Powder
Sal ammoniac, gum mastic, red coral, and myrrh, of each an equal quantity finely powdered.
Another: 3 oz. camphor, 1 oz. powdered cinchona bark, 1 oz. prepared charcoal, and sufficient spirits of wine to dissolve the camphor. Mix thoroughly, and pass through a fine sieve.
The mixture of chalk and camphor is very good for preserving as well as cleansing teeth.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
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Cut several mullein stalks into small pieces and boil in one quart of cider vinegar. Apply to the sprain while warm.
Source: The Inglenook Cook Book
Excellent Cough Mixture
Take a handful of hoarhound, boil in a quart of water; add one pint of Orleans molasses, and one pound of brown sugar. Boil to a thin sirup. Put all in a bottle, and add one tablespoonful of tar. Shake while warm, until the tar is cut into small beads. Dose: Take one tablespoonful whenever the cough is troublesome.
Source: The Universal Cookery Book, Gertrude Strohm
Lip Salve, Very Good
Two oz. white wax, 2 oz. of unsalted lard, 1/2 oz. spermaceti, 1 oz. oil sweet almonds, 2 drachms balsam of Peru, a lump of sugar, and 2 drachms of alkali root; simmer together, then strain through muslin.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett