Corns
Apply to warts and corns, a piece of soft brown paper moistened with saliva, and a few dressings will remove them. A convenient plaster may also be made of an ounce of pitch, half an ounce of galbanum dissolved in vinegar, one scruple of ammoniac, and a dram and a half of diachylon mixed together.
Source: The Cook And Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary, Mary Eaton
Burns, Brown-Paper Oil For
Dip some thick brown paper in salad oil, put it upon a plate, and set it alight. Apply the oil that is left upon the plate.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Cure for a Felon
The cure is said to be certain and is published at the particular request of a person who had experienced its success for a great number of years.
Take a piece of rock salt about the size of a walnut and wrap it up closely in a green cabbage leaf, but if not to be had, in a piece of brown paper well moistened with water; lay it on hot embers and cover it up as if to roast for twenty minutes, take it up and powder it as fine as possible then take some hard soap and mix the powdered salt with it so as to make a salve, if the soap should contain but little turpentine which its smell will determine add some more, but if it smells pretty strongly of it, none need be added; apply the salve to the part affected and in a short time it will totally destroy the felon and remove the pain.
Source: Household Recipes, Constance Hatton Hart
Filed under Remedy | Tags: brown paper, cabbage, embers, felon, green cabbage, hatton, nail, rock salt, salt, salve, soap, turpentine | Comment (0)To Stop The Flow Of Blood
For a slight cut there is nothing better to control the hemorrhage than common unglazed brown wrapping paper, such as is used by marketmen and grocers; a piece to be bound over the wound. A handful
of flour bound on the cut. Cobwebs and brown sugar, pressed on like lint. When the blood ceases to flow, apply arnica or laudanum.
When an artery is cut the red blood spurts out at each pulsation. Press the thumb firmly over the artery near the wound, and on the side toward the heart. Press hard enough to stop the bleeding, and wait till a physician comes. The wounded person is often able to do this himself, if he has the requisite knowledge.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
Filed under Remedy | Tags: arnica, artery, bleed, bleeding, blood, brown paper, brown sugar, cobweb, cobwebs, cut, flour, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, laudanum, lint, paper, skin, sugar, whitehouse, wrapping paper | Comment (0)Hiccough or Hiccup
This is a spasm of the diaphragm caused by flatulency, indigestion or acidity. It may be relieved by the sudden application of cold, also by two or three mouthfuls of cold water, by eating a small piece of ice, taking a pinch of snuff, burning of brown paper, or anything that excites counteraction.
Source: Enquire Within Upon Everything.