Golden Ointment
One pound lard and eight ounces beeswax melted. Have one ounce camphor gum put to five ounces of alcohol, one ounce organum, one ounce laudanum. Let all dissolve while you are melting the first two, then stir together till cold. Do not put these together too hot, or the camphor will go off in steam, and you will lose the good of it.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Cure for Hiccough
A good cure for hiccough is slippery elm-bark boiled and made sweet with sugar.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
For Bruises and Swellings
Use distilled witch-hazel, wetting a cloth and applying frequently. Both better and cheaper than arnica.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
For Burns
Wet cotton batting with coal oil and put on the burn, keeping there until it is well.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Cure for Rheumatism
One-quarter small teaspoonful Canadian balsam. Take three times a day after meals, a little water taken afterwards, and also rub the affected part twice a day with coal oil until a warm glow is felt.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
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
A Cure for Dropsy
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
For Neuralgia
Pour a tablespoonful of coal oil on a soft cloth, and squeeze well through it, and put it on where the pain is felt.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Cure for Cuts and Bruises
Cut fingers and bruises of all kinds if wrapped in a cloth wet in alum water heal with a rapidity that is truly wonderful.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
Cure for Chilblains
Bathe the feet in hot water, dry thoroughly before the fire, then rub with the following as long as possible. Take a piece of butter the size of a walnut with as much salt as can be worked into it. One or two applications will generally cure the worst cases.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught