For Heartburn – Lozenges
One oz. Gum Arabic, one oz. pulverized Licorice Root, one-fourth oz. Magnesia. Add water to make into lozenges. Let dissolve in mouth and swallow.
Source: One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed, C. A. Bogardus
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Sulphate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, 10 grains; peppermint water, 11 drachms; spirits of nutmeg, 1 drachm; twice a day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.
Source: Our Knowledge Box, ed. G. Blackie
Filed under Remedy | Tags: blackie, drunk, drunkenness, iron, liquor, magnesia, nutmeg, peppermine water, peppermint, spirits of nutmeg, stimulant, sulphate of iron, tonic | Comment (0)Burnet’s Celebrated Powder for the Face
Five cents’ worth of bay rum, five cents’ worth of magnesia snowflake, five cents’ worth of bergamot, five cents’ worth of oil of lemon; mix in a pint bottle and fill up with rain-water. Shake well, and apply with a soft sponge or cloth.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
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For itching, rub into them common table salt, or bathe with equal parts vinegar and water.
Hives indicate stomach trouble. Give citrate of magnesia.
If hives persist, give 1/2 tsp. table salt in water or 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar in 1/4 glass of water three times a day for three days.
If hives still persist, consult doctor.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
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Give citrate of magnesia, or Epsom or Rochelle salt, or castor oil. Cracked ice slowly melted in the mouth generally relieves sick stomach.
Hot, clear coffee given after any of the above medicines counteracts greatly the nauseating effect.
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
Filed under Remedy | Tags: bile, castor oil, citrate of magnesia, coffee, cracked ice, epsom, epsom salt, fryer, magnesia, nausea, rochelle, rochelle salt, sick stomach, stomach | Comment (0)“Gum Boils” or “Canker Sores”
So-called “gum boils” or “canker sores” are little ulcer-like sores which at times appear in children’s mouths, caused by disarrangement of the stomach. Local applications, such as borax or powdered alum, shrink the sores and give a little relief; but the child should be given a dose of calcined magnesia at night or citrate of magnesia in the morning. (Never give a small dose of citrate of magnesia; a child of twelve years should take a tumblerful.)
Source: The Mary Frances First Aid Book, Jane Eayre Fryer
Filed under Remedy | Tags: alum, boils, borax, calcined magnesia, canker, canker sores, citrate of magnesia, fryer, gum, gum boils, gums, magnesia, mouth, mouth ulcer, mouths, powdered alum, sores, stomach, ulcer | Comment (0)To Remove Grease Spots
Take the yolk of an egg, entirely free from the white, and with a soft brush apply it on the spot until the grease appears removed or dissolved. Wash off the egg with moderately warm water, and then rinse off the whole with clean cold water.
Another. Lay a quantity of Magnesia or French chalk on the grease spot, and apply to it a hot flatiron: repeat till it is all out.
Source: Valuable Receipts, J.M. Prescott
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Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for culinary purposes. Attar of rose, twelve drops; rub it up with half an ounce of white sugar and two drachms carbonate magnesia; then add gradually one quart of water and two ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
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This recipe comes into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, who had fallen into such habitual drunkeness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. He sought the advice of an eminent physician who gave him a prescription which he followed for several months, and at the end of that time had lost all desire for liquor.
The recipe is as follows: Five grains of sulphate of iron, ten grains of magnesia, eleven drachms of peppermint water and one drachm of spirits of nutmeg; to be taken twice a day. This preparation acts as a stimulant and tonic and partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.
Source: 76: A Cook Book
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A very excellent carminative powder for flatulent infants may be kept in the house, and employed with advantage whenever the child is in pain or griped, dropping five grains of oil of anise-seed and two of peppermint on half an ounce of lump sugar, and rubbing it in a mortar, with a drachm of magnesia, into a fine powder. A small quantity of this may be given in a little water at any time, and always with benefit.
Source: The White House Cookbook, F.L. Gillette
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