Cholera and Diarrhoea
For this recipe the New York Sun newspaper paid one thousand dollars for the benefit of subscribers. It is most effectual but is not adopted for young children. Equal parts of tincture of rhubarb, cayenne, opium, ginger, spirits of camphor and essence of peppermint. Dose, half a teaspoonful every three hours.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
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Take a small wine-glassful of the following mixture: a tea-spoonful of sal volatile, of tincture of hops, and an equal portion of infusion of orange peel and of gentian.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
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Six lemons, one pound of loaf sugar, one ounce of cream of tartar, one ounce of magnesia, two ounces of parsley seed. Slice the lemons thin, put them and the parsley seed into three quarts of water, boil down to one quart, strain and add the other things to them. Dose, a wine glass three times a day.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
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Mix half an ounce of pounded alum with one pint of milk. Strain it, and add sugar and nutmeg to the whey. It is good in cases of hemorrhages, and sometimes for colic.
Source: Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book, Catherine Beecher
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Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti, and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and, when cooling, perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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Tincture of opium, spirits of camphor, tincture capsicum, each one fluid ounce; purified chloroform three fluid drachms, and sufficient stronger alcohol to make five fluid ounces. Each fluid drachm or teaspoonful contains about one hundred drops, being about twenty of each ingredient. Dose for adults, one teaspoonful.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
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Tea from the leaves of the common thistle boiled down and made quite strong, is said to be an excellent remedy for neuralgia. The leaves should also be macerated and used on the parts affected as a poultice. Said to be a permanent and sure cure.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
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Bay rum, two pints; alcohol, one pint; castor oil, one ounce ; carb. ammonia, half an ounce ; tincture of cantharides, one ounce. Mix well. This compound will promote the growth of the hair and prevent it from falling out.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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Put a little brown sugar into a pan and boil it over the fire till it gets bubbles, then add as much ground pepper as there is sugar, take it from the fire and stir together after which make it into pills of a size that can be put into a hollow tooth.
Source: Recipes: Information for Everybody, J.F. Landis
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Boil 1 oz. powdered bark and 1 drachm myrrh, in 1 1/2 pint of water, over a slow fire, till one third is wasted; strain, then add a table-spoonful of honey, and a tea-spoonful of spirits of lavender.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
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