Burns
Make a thick paste of molasses and flour, or castile soap and flour, covering the parts so as to entirely exclude the air. For a deep burn, dress daily with lime water and linseed oil, equal parts.
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Chicken Cholera
Take one part cayenne pepper, two parts ginger; mix with lard and flour enough to make pills as large as a pea. Give two or more twice a day.
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Cuts and Burns
Equal parts burgundy pitch, beeswax and fresh lard melted together.
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Vermin Exterminator
A blessing to housekeepers, and no danger of poison: Take a half pound of alum to one pail of water boiling hot; dip in the ends of the slats; then take a good scrubbing brush and apply thoroughly to all parts affected, all cracks in the plastering or wood work. A certain cure for bed-bugs. Tried.
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Cough Mixture
Take of boneset, slippery elm, flax seed and stick liquorice two ounces each, one pint molasses, half pound brown sugar. Simmer the herbs in water (about three pints), until the strength is extracted, add the sugar and molasses, strain and boil to the consistency of cream. A teaspoon every two hours.
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Dysentery
Into half a glass of port wine stir a teaspoon of starch, sweetened with loaf sugar; grate half a nutmeg in it, and drink three or four times a day.
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To Remove Smell of Onions from the Breath
Wash the mouth with a weak solution of citric acid ; rinse with soda water.
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To Keep Out Red Ants
Place in the closet, or wherever they appear, a small quantity of green sage.
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Soreness of the Chest
White wadding folded in two or three thicknesses and bound on the chest. It is equally good in sore throat, or face, produced by cold.
Source: The Kansas Home Cook-Book