Medicinal Imperial
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
For Heartburn
10 grains carbonate of magnesia
5 grains flour of ginger
5 grains carbonate of soda
15 grains powdered liquorice
To be taken as a powder 2 or 3 times a day.
Source: The Northampton Cookery Book, M.A. Jeffery
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Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into one-half cup of water, pour a small quantity of this at a time into the hollow of the hand and draw up, by sniffs into the nostrils.
Source: The Inglenook Cook Book
Pomatum (Elder-Flower)
Melt together over a slow fire two ounces of marrow, and the same amount of refined lard, then add four ounces of elder-flower oil and stir till it is nearly cold.
Source: Recipes for the Million