Cough Syrup
One pint best vinegar. Break into it an egg and leave in, shell and all, over night. In the morning it will all be eaten except the white skin which must be taken out. Then add 1 pound loaf sugar, and for an adult, take a tablespoon three times a day. This is a most excellent remedy for a cough in any stage.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Cure for Lockjaw
Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool or woolen cloth will take the pain out of the worst case of inflammation arising from any wound. All danger from lock-jaw will be removed if this remedy is resorted to.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Warts – To Remove
Apply oil of cinnamon to the wart for three successive days, and it will disappear very shortly.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Baldness – To Cure
One pound pressed hemlock bark. Break in pieces and put into a 3-quart tin-pail. Pour over it 2 quarts boiling soft water, and simmer slowly. When reduced to 3 pints set it aside to cool and pour off the clear liquid for use. Wet the whole scalp thoroughly four or five times a day, rubbing gently with the finger-ends. When the scalp gets healthier and stronger use more friction. One package will generally be all that is required to tone up the scalp. it will not only prevent the hair from falling out, but will bring a new growth of hair if there are any hair bulbs at all.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Corns – To Cure
Two drachms potash and 1 drachm salt of sorrel. Mix into a fine powder. Put on enough to cover the corn for four successive nights, binding it on with a cloth.
Corns can often be cured by paring them down and rubbing on a little strong vinegar or acetic acid every night. Each morning, rub them over with lard or olive oil.
The latest cure for soft corns is this: Wash and dry the foot thoroughly, and put on a sprinkling of dry sulphur night and morning for several weeks, and a cure is assured.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
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One drachm oil of wormwood. Mix with 1 gill alcohol. Apply to sprain or bruise, and keep a cloth wet with it on the injured part. Will cure in a very short time.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Onions as a Disinfectant
In case of small-pox, or any contagious disease, cut up an onion and put it in the sick-room, and replace it every hour with a fresh one.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Whooping-Cough Cure
Olive oil, 2 ounces; Jamaica rum, 2 ounces; brown sugar, 2 ounces; laudanum, 1 drachm. Melt the sugar in a little water and add the other ingredients. Give a teaspoon after every paroxysm.
After the third week of whooping-cough, put 1 ounce strongest liquid ammonia in a gallon of boiling water in an open pan. Keep up the steam by putting in a red hot brick. Place in the center of the room where the patient is. This will frequently terminate the malady in 3 or 4 days. Try it each night until relieved.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
Filed under Remedy | Tags: ammonia, brick, brown sugar, laudanum, olive oil, owens, paroxysm, rum, sugar, whooping cough | Comment (0)Lemons for Neuralgia
Lemon, eaten freely, without the peel, and without sugar, has proved very beneficial in neuralgia. But very little sugar, if any, must be used.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens
For a Dry, Irritating Cough
Smoke in a common clean pipe equal quantities of ground coffee and rich pine saw-dust. My husband finds almost instant relief when his throat and lungs are sore. Swallow all the smoke you can.
Source: Mrs Owens’ Cook Book and Useful Household Hints, Frances Owens