Remedies for the Human Family (1909)
Eye Water
Table salt and white vitrol, each one teaspoonful. Heat them on an earthen dish until all the moisture has disappeared. Now add them to one half pint of soft water. White sugar, one teaspoonful; Blue vitro, a piece as large as a common pea. Should this be too strong add a little more water. Apply to the eye by dampening a pad made from soft white cloth, three or four times each day.
A sure cure for small pox.
A New York physician contributes the following. -One ounce Cream Tartar dissolved in a pint of boiling water, to be drank when cold, at intervals. It can be taken at any time, and will prevent as well as cure. It is absolutely known to have cured in thousands of cases without failure.
To strengthen and invigorate the system.
Two drachms Essential salt of the round leaf Cornel, one scruple Extract Rheubarb, one scruple Ginger powdered. Make into pills and take for a dose two or three twice a day.
Russian Salve.
Take equal parts of Sweet Oil and Yellow Wax, melt slowly, carefully stirring. When cooling stir in small quantity of Glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, bruises, cuts, burns, etc.
A Certain Cure for Drunkenness.
Sulphate of iron, five grains, magnesia, ten grains, peppermint water, eleven drachms, spirit of nutmeg, one drachm, twice a day. This preparation acts as a stimulant and tonic, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and mental prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.
Hair Tonic, French Recipe.
Take Castor oil, three ounces, alcohol, one and one-half ounce, aqua ammonia, one-half drachm, well shaken and mixed together. Perfume to suit, Bergamot or any other good perfume. This makes a splendid hair dressing, and will make it grow.
Lung Medicine
Take Black Cohosh, one-half ounce, Lobelia, one-fourth ounce, Canker Root, three-fourths of an ounce; Blackberry root, one-third ounce, steeped in three pints of water. Dose one tablespoonful three times a day before eating. Sure cure for spitting blood.
Toothache Drops
Four ounces Pulverized Alum, fourteen ounces Sweet Spirits of Nitre. Put up in one ounce bottles. Retails readily for 25 cents. This is the most effective remedy for toothache that was ever discovered, and is a fortune to anyone that will push its sale, It will sell at every house.
Green Mountain Salve
Take one pound Beeswax, one pound soft butter and one and one-half pounds soft turbentine, twelve ounces Balsam Fir. Melt and strain. Use to heal wounds.
A Good Cough Cure
Take the white of an egg and pulverized sugar and beat to a froth. Take a tablespoon every three to four hours.
Tetter Ointment
One ounce Spirits Turpentine, one ounce Red Precipitate in powder, one ounce Burgundy Pitch in powder, one pound hogs lard. Melt all these together over a slow fire until the ointment is formed. Stir until cold. Spread on a linen rag and apply to the parts affected.
A Sure Cure for the Piles.
Confection of Senna, two ounces; Cream Tarter, one ounce; Sulphur, one ounce; Syrup Ginger, enough to make a stiff paste; mix. A piece of large as a nut is to be taken as often as necessary to keep the bowels open. This is one of the best remedies known to the Medical World.
Diphthria
Take a clean clay tobacco pipe, put a live coal in it, then put common tar on the fire and smoke it, inhaling and breathing back through the nostrils.
A Sure Cure for Corns.
Extract of Cannabis Indicus, ten grains; Salicylic Acid, six grains; Colodin, one ounce. Mix and apply with a camels hair brush or a cloth so as to form a thick covering over the corn. Do this every night for three or four nights. Then take a hot foot bath and the corn can be easily removed without the aid of a knife or other instrument. This is so sure to cure and is perfectly painless. Recommended by the best Chiropidist in the country.
A Cure for Sore Throat in all its forms.
Two ounces Cayenne Pepper, one ounce common salt, one half pint vinegar. Warm over a slow fire and gargle the throat and mouth every hour. Garlic and onion poultice applied to the outside. Castor Oil, one spoonful, to keep the bowels open. This is a preparation that should be in the home of every family especially during the winter and spring months. This remedy is simple and inexpensive.
Drops of Life
One ounce Gum Opium, one drachm Gum Kino, forty grains Gum Camphor, one-half ounce Nutmeg, powdered, one pint French Brand, or old Whiskey. Mix together and let stand for about ten days. Dose from thirty to forty drops for an adult, children half doses. This is one of the most valuable preparations in the Materia Medica, and will in some dangerous hours, when all hope is fled, and the system racked with pain, be the soothing balm which cures the most dangerous disease to which the human body is liable, such as flux, dysentery and all summer complaints.
Positive Cure for Catarrh.
Carbolic Acid, ten to twenty drops; Liquid Vaseline, one to two ounces. Mix and use with an atomizer three or four times each day.
Warts and Corns - To Cure in Ten Minutes
Take a small piece of Potash and let it stand in the open air until it slacks, then thicken it to a paste with pulverized Gum Arabic, which prevents it from spreading where it was not wanted.
Linnement, Good Samaritan
Alcohol, tow quarts and add it to the following articles; Oils of Sassafrass and Hemlock, Spirits of Turpintine, Tincture of Capsicum, Tincture of Catechu, Tincture of Guaic, Tincture of Laudanum, of each one ounce. Tincture of Myrrh, four ounces, Oil of Organum, two ounces; oil of Wintergreen, one-half ounce; Gum Camphor, two ounces and Chloroform, one and one-half ounce. This is one of the best appliances for internal pains known. It is superior to any of the foregoing recipes.
A Sure Cure or Cancer
(As used by a New York Physician with Great Success.)
Take Red Oak ark and boil it to the thickness of Molasses, then mix with Sheeps Tallow of equal proportion. Spread it on leaves of linwood, green and keep the plaster over the ulcer. Change once in eight hours.
Healing Salve
Lard, four ounces; Resin, two ounces, sweet elder bark, two ounces. Simmer over a slow fire four hours or until it forms a hard brown slave. This is for the cure of cuts, bruises, boils, old sores and all like ailments. Spread on a cotton cloth and apply to the parts affected.
Pegardus Liniment
Take two drachms Oil Cajeput, one drachm oil spike, one drachm Oil Sassafras, one drachm Oil Cloves, one drachm Oil Organum, thirty drops Oil Mustard, one drachm Tinet Capsicum, two drachm Gum Camphor, eight ounce alcohol. Use as other liniments for any ache or pain. For sore throat or hoarseness, saturate a towel with the liniment, place it over the mouth, let it remain so for 4 to 5 hours and you will be cured. For croup, bathe throat and chest with liniment. Also let the child breathe the fumes of the liniment. For external use only. We especially recommend this liniment for general family use.
Specific Inflammatory Rheumatism
One ounce Salt Petre, pulverized; one pint, sweet oil. Bathe the part affected three times a day with the mixture until relieved.
Magnetic Ointment
One ounce Elder Bark, one ounce Spikenard Root, one ounce Yellow Dock Root. Boil in one-half pint water down to one-quarter pint. Press and boil to two ounces. Add one-half pound resin, one ounce beeswax, tallow enough to soften. Apply to the sores by spreading on linen cloth.
Submitted by: Gina Reasoner