For Burns or Scalds
Keep in a bottle, tightly corked, 1/2 oz. of trefoil, and the same of sweet oil; apply with a feather, immediately that the accident has occurred. Linseed or olive oil, applied instantly, will draw out the fire; treacle will have the same effect, and is recommended by some persons, in preference to anything else. Others say that fine flour, applied instantly, is the best thing; as soon as it becomes warm, replace it with fresh. Wadding also laid on the part instantly is good to draw out the fire.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
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Clip them and anoint with a little sweet oil. Should the hair fall out, having been full, use one of the hair invigorators.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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Wring cloths out of hot water, as hot as possible, and put around the throat and cover well. Change two or three times. If this does not relieve, give an emetic. If the child is suffering with a severe attack, give the emetic at once; apply hot water to the throat and rub the chest with sweet oil or lard, and soak the feet in hot water and cover well with woolen, when taken out of the water.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
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Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti, and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and, when cooling, perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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Two ounces gum camphor, eight ounces alcohol, one ounce organum, one ounce amber, one-half ounce oil spikenard, three ounces laudanum, four ounces sweet oil, eight ounces hartshorn, one ounce spirits turpentine.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
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Onions and garlic sliced, of each one gill; one gill of sweet oil; stir them in the oil in a covered dish; strain and add one gill of honey; one-half an ounce of paregoric; one-half an ounce of spirits of camphor. Bottle and cork for use. Dose: one teaspoonful three or four times a day.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
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Two ounces sweet oil, one ounce turpentine, one ounce gum camphor, one teaspoonful croton oil.
Source: The New Galt Cook Book, M. Taylor & F. McNaught
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A little sweet oil rubbed in night and morning, if persevered in, will, after a fortnight, quite cure them.
Source: Household Gas Cookery Book, Helen Edden
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When the skin is not off, apply scraped raw potatoes. When the skin is off, apply sweet oil and cotton, or linseed oil and lime water made into a paste. Elder ointment is very good: make the ointment of the green bark of the elder; stew in lard.
Source: The Philadelphia Housewife, Mary Hodgson
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