For Scalds and Burns
Apply essence of peppermint to a burn or a scald; it seems to drive out the heat and causes a cool sensation immediately.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
For Fresh Burns, Scalds, Etc.
Take equal parts of lime water and raw linseed oil, shake well together, saturate an old linen cloth and apply to the burn. Be sure and keep the cloth well saturated.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
Good for a Cold
The juice of two lemons in half a tumbler of luke warm water.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
Wash for Hands
Glycerine and lemon juice, equal parts of each.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
Cora Tanner’s Cold Cream
Shave 2 ounces of white wax and 40 grains of spermaceti into 7 ounces of oil of almonds. Melt together over gentle fire. When quite dissolved, add 5 ounces of best rose water, and beat till cold with egg beater.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
Drinks for a Fever
Cold drinks, as a rule, increase the feverish condition of the mouth and stomach, and so create thirst. Experience shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve thirst; and cool off the body when it is in an abnormally heated condition, better than ice cold drinks.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book
For a Nose Bleed
Dr. H—— recommends for the treatment of bleeding at the nose, the plunging of the face and hands of the patient in water, as hot as can be borne. He says that the most rebellious cases have never resisted this mode of treatment.
Source: Flint Hills Cook Book