castile soap and warm water, and the lotion applied freely and rubbed in
with a stiff hair brush once a day; in a week or two its good effects
will be manifested. This is the best preparation for baldness yet
introduced--give it a fair trial and you will not be disappointed. The
drugs of this preparation can be had at any of the drug stores.
TOOTHACHE BALSAM.
Take of creosote 1 drachm, oil of cloves 1 drachm, tincture of camphor 2
drachms, oil of petroleum 2 drachms, mix them thoroughly and cork tight
for use. A few drops of this mixture on cotton and applied to the nerve
of the tooth will relieve the pain.
TOOTH POWDER.
Take of supercarbonate of soda 1 ounce, pulverized orris root ½ an ounce,
cream of tartar ½ ounce, oil of roses 10 drops, mix them properly. This
may be used with the finger, rag or soft tooth brush.
ANOTHER TOOTH POWDER.
Carbonate of magnesia any quantity, perfumed with the oil of cinnamon
or neroli. This is the best tooth powder for children--the teeth should
always be cleaned after eating, if you wish to keep the breath sweet.
COLOGNE WATER No. 1.
Take of oil of bergamot 1 ounce, oil of lavender ½ ounce, oil of neroli 1
drachm, oil of roses 15 drops, oil of cloves 30 drops, new milk 1 pint,
pure alcohol 1 gallon, digest 1 day and filter through close flannel
several times.
COLOGNE WATER No. 2.
Take of oil of bergamot 1 ounce, oil of lemon 1 ounce, oil of lavender
3 ounces, tincture of muck 1 drachm, pure alcohol 7 pints, rose water 1
pint, gum camphor 20 grains, mix and digest 1 day and filter--cork up
tight for use.
COLOGNE WATER No. 3.
Take oil of roses 5 drops, oil of bergamot 1 ounce, oil of lemon 1 ounce,
oil of lavender 2½ ounces, oil of rosemary ½ ounce, oil of cinnamon
10 drops, pure alcohol 7 pints, new milk 1 pint. Let the mixture stand
one day and filter. All preparations of cologne should be kept closely
stopped, otherwise they will lose their fine flavor.
TOOTHACHE DROPS.
Take of 95 per cent. alcohol 1 pint, oil of origanum 2 ounces, gum
camphor 2 ounces, tartaric acid ½ ounce. Digest 1 day and mix well, when
it will be ready for use--cork up tight.--A few drops of this mixture on
cotton applied to the nerve, and the gums well rubbed with it will soon
relieve the pain. This is harmless and pleasant. If you cannot get any
cotton to the nerve, bathe the tooth and gums well with it.
FOR DYSPEPSIA.
Take of 1½ pounds of white mustard seed from 1 tea spoonful to 1 table
spoonful, between meals--the whole seeds in cold water.
TO PRESERVE BUTTER No. 1.
Take saltpetre and loaf sugar of an equal proportion and make a liquid.
After packing the butter in a jar or sweet keg, pour over enough of the
liquid to cover the butter an inch or two. If you should wish to re-pack
the butter, pour off the liquid, which if sweet, may be used again when
you have done packing.
TO PRESERVE BUTTER No. 2.
Reduce separately to a fine powder, in a dry mortar, 2 pounds of the best
common salt, 1 pound of saltpetre and 1 pound of loaf sugar; sift one of
them over the other on a sheet of paper, then mix them well together and
they are ready for use. 1 ounce of the preparation is enough, to a pound
of butter, and if well worked in will preserve it sweet for three years.
This is worth giving a trial.
TO PICKEL CUCUMBERS.
Let your cucumbers be small, fresh gathered and free from spots; then
make a pickel of salt and water, strong enough to bear up an egg; boil
the pickel in a copper kettle if convenient; and skim it well; then pour
it upon the cucumbers and tie them down for 24 hours, strain out through
a colander and dry off well with a cloth.
Take the best wine or cider vinegar, cloves, mace, nutmegs, pepper and
race ginger, boil them together and put the cucumbers in with a little
salt, as soon as they begin to turn their color, put them into jars,
crocks or tight barrels; when cold tie on a bladder or leather. This is
excellent and worthy attention.
SOFT GINGER BREAD.
Four cups of molasses, 2 of butter, 2 of milk, eight eggs, two
teaspoonsful of pearlash, ginger, and sufficient flour to make it stiff
as pound cake.
TO PRESERVE PEACHES.
Take ripe free stone peaches--pare, stone and quarter them; to six pounds
of the cut peaches allow three pounds of the best brown sugar; stew the
sugar and peaches together, and set them away in a covered vessel; next
morning put them into a preserving kettle and boil it slowly about an
hour and three quarters, skimming it well.
TO PRESERVE PLUMBS, &c.
A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit; the sugar should be melted over a
fire, moderate enough not to scorch it when melted. It should be skimmed
clean and the fruit dropped in to simmer until it is soft. Put them in
jars and cover carefully from the air. Glass is much better than earthen
for preserves--they are not so apt to ferment.
SOAP TO TAKE GREASE OUT OF CLOTH, SATINS, SILKS, &c.
Take 4 pounds of white bar soap, 1½ pints 95 per cent. alcohol, 1½ ounces
of nitric acid, 2 do. of saltpetre, 2 ounces soda, ¾ ounce camphor; cut
the bar soap into thin shavings, put all the above ingredients in a
crock, then boil over a slow fire, with very little blaze; pulverize your
camphor as fine as possible and when all is properly dissolved, which
will take 1 hour or so then take the pot off the fire and when cooled add
1½ ounces spirits of amonia, pour in slowly stirring all the time; should
it catch on fire smother it with a cover or by throwing a cloth over
the pot. Stir while boiling, and scent with ½ ounce of oil of cinnamon.
This will remove grease spots from cloth, silks, &c., by taking a tooth
brush--dip into water and make a lather with the soap, rub the grease
spot well with the brush and lather, then wash it out twice in cold
water, rinsing and squeezing the soap out as clean as possible--let it be
clean water each time. This will take grease, paint, tar, oil, &c., out
of any kind of goods when properly applied. By pouring it in a flat pan
you can cut your soap into cakes of any size.
SOAP FOR GREASE, TAR, PAINT, &c.
Take 1 quart 95 per cent. alcohol, 2¾ pounds best home made soap; cut
the soap into thin shavings, then put the soap and alcohol into a pan
or vessel over a slow fire, and let all dissolve before it boils; when
dissolved boil a few minutes, then pour the soap into a pan, and when
cooled off cut into cakes. This preparation is excellent for washing
dirty clothes and will not require near the labor that the common soap
does. For cloth, silks, &c., you may take less soap. It may be used in
the same manner directed for the other soap.
REMEDY FOR ITCH No. 1
Take broad dock roots and lard sufficient to form a mixture, boil it
until it forms a salve.--Bury the salve in the ground for 24 hours, then
grease 2 or 3 times every evening before going to bed, dry in by the
stove and shift the clothes. It never fails. Take sulphor of brimstone
several days before applying the salve. This plant is not the burdock nor
the narrowdock, which it resembles, except that the leaves of the broad
dock are broader and the stocks do not grow near so high.
REMEDY FOR ITCH No. 2.
Take 4 ounces of venice turpentine, 4 ounces of red precipitate, 1 pound
of unwashed butter. The turpentine must be washed 9 times in fresh spring
water, then mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Apply several times of an
evening before going to bed and dry in at the stove, after which put on
clean clothes. Avoid getting wet while using this salve. Take sulphor and
cream of tartar 2 or 3 days before applying.
REMEDY FOR ITCH No. 3.
Take narrow dock and grate it, then add sweet milk or cream and fry them
together and grease with it 3 or 4 times every evening, drying in at the
stove, then dress with clean clothes. Take ½ tea spoonful of sulphor
twice a day several days before and after. This is a certain cure.
PILLS BY DR. W. B. YOUNG.
Take calomel, jalap, aloes and rhubarb, equal portions, mix all together
and add a little water at a time, and mix until you cannot see the
calomel grains, roll in powdered helebore or epicac. Dose from 1 to 3
pills once a day in the evening. Roll the mixture out in rolls and cut up
to make the regular sizes. These are an excellent domestic pill.
FRENCH PATENT OIL VARNISH.
For Boots, Shoes, Harness and Carriages:--Take 1 gallon alcohol, 1¼
pounds gum shellac, 8 ounces of white turpentine, 4 ounces of rosin, 4
ounces of venice turpentine, 4 ounces oil of lavender, 1 ounce lamp black
to color with; put the gum shellac and alcohol into a jug and shake, let
it stand a day or two to dissolve, then add the other ingredients and
shake well until all is dissolved, when it is ready for use. In applying
this polish use a sponge or brush, lightly and briskly, and it will make
a beautiful polish. It will render leather water proof, but if used
regularly a small quantity of oil should be applied occasionally.
COX’S HIVE SYRUP.
Take of bruised squills 10 drachms, seneca snake root 10 drachms; add the
squills and snake root to 1 pint of water that has been first boiled,
settled and poured off and simmer slowly until you have but half a pint
of water, then strain it off and add clarified sugar 1 pound, and simmer
until all are well mixed, then add tartar emetic 22 grains, salts of
tartar 22 grains, stir and mix properly while the fluid is warm, stop
it up tight for use. This syrup is good in coughs, croup or bad colds
in children, in 10 or 15 drop doses--no family should do without it one
day. If you do not wish to be troubled making it, buy some and always
keep it in your house. It is a sure and safe remedy for croup, in which
little larger doses should be administered often until it vomits pretty
freely--continue with the syrup until the tightness is broken, then use
occasionally, not enough to vomit so often. By keeping this remedy at
hand you may save some one of your family, and a large amount of trouble
and expense. In croup put a mustard plaster on the breast and throat
immediately, as no time is to be lost. Mustard plaster is made with
ground mustard and wheat flour equal parts; mix them together and wet
with warm vinegar, greasing the throat and breast with turpentine or good
liniment; putting flannel around the neck is very good.--Young parents
should be on their guard when not acquainted with the disease.
DOMESTIC COUGH SYRUP.
Take of cumfrey root one ounce, elecampane root 1 ounce, nettle root
1 ounce, hoarhound leaves 1 ounce, spikenard root ½ ounce, pulverize
all fine and boil them in a quart of water down to a pint, strain the
liquor off and when settled pour off again; add to it 1 pint of strained
honey, and simmer down slowly to a pint and a half; add to it scant ½
ounce juice of indian turnip; take a green turnip and beat and squeeze
the juice out, add to the syrup when milk warm; if put in while hot
it will lose its medical properties. A table spoonful or less may be
taken from 4 to 6 times a day, in cases of bad cough, it is healing and
strengthening to the lungs; it may be made with or without the indian
turnip juice. The indian turnip is an excellent of itself.
GREAT SALVE FOR WOUNDS, &c.
Take 1 pound sheep tallow, 1 pound beeswax, ½ pound rosin elder inside
bark, 1 pound balm of gillead leaves or flowers, put into a pan and fry
over a slow fire to a salve, spread thin on a linen rag and apply 2 or 3
times a day.
SODA POWDERS.
To make these powders put 1 tea spoonful of carbonate of soda into a
glass nearly half full of water, and ½ tea spoonful of tartaric acid in
the other, and add enough sugar and lemon syrup or lemon juice to suit
the taste; stir and dissolve the powders and sugar, then pour one into
the other and drink while effervescing. This is a very pleasant and
cooling drink.
PATENT BLACK JAPAN.
For iron or wood carriages, &c. Take 1 gallon of turpentine, 2¼ pounds
asphaltum, put them into an iron pot over a charcoal fire and let remain
until dissolved, then strain it--if it becomes too thick when cold add
spirits of turpentine. For wood or canvass add while hot, to every gallon
1 pint of copal varnish and ½ pint of linseed oil. This is a good and
cheap paint or varnish, used by a great many coach-makers, blacksmiths,
&c.
TO MAKE SOFT SOAP.
Take 10 pounds of common yellow or rosin soap, such as is purchased here
for 4 or 6 cents per pound, 6 pounds sal-soda, 10 gallons soft or rain
water; cut the soap into small thin pieces and put the whole over a fire,
bring the water nearly to a boiling point and allow it to remain at that
temperature until the soap is thoroughly dissolved; it may then be taken
off. If the soap made with these ingredients is found to be too strong
add cold water until it becomes of the proper consistency and strength.
FURNITURE POLISH.
Take ¼ pound beeswax, separate into shavings, put in a pan and add ½
gallon of spirits of turpentine and 1 pint linseed oil; let it remain for
12 hours, then stir it well with a stick into a liquid; while stirring
add ¼ pound shellac varnish and 1 ounce alkinet root. Put this mixture
into a gallon jar and stand it before a fire or in an oven for a week,
just to keep it warm, shaking it up 3 or 4 times a day, then strain it
through a hair sieve or fine flannel. In using pour a tea spoonful on a
wad of baize or flannel, and go lightly over the face or other parts of
the mahogany furniture, then apply a similar dry wad briskly and in three
minutes it will produce a dark brilliant polish, unequalled and of great
value. The shellac varnish is made by taking ¼ pound good gum shellac and
pouring alcohol enough over to dissolve it, say as much as to cover the
shellac.
ESSENCE OF LEMON.
Take 1 pint alcohol, ½ ounce of oil of lemon, color with tincture of
tamarisk. To make these essences for family use you should take 95 per
cent. alcohol and the quantity of oil named in the receipt, which will
save you three hundred per cent. paying you for your labor. If you wish
to make a pint, get a glass bottle that will hold a little more than a
pint and put your alcohol and oil in, shake and mix them well, then color
to suit.
To make 1 gallon of the essences for sale, take 1 gallon of common
alcohol and 2 ounces of the oil--color as in the others.
ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT.
Take 1 pint alcohol, ½ ounce of oil of peppermint, and if you wish it
colored add in small quantities the tincture of tamarisk, stirring it,
until you have the color to suit your taste. This is excellent for cramp
colic in man or horse.
EYE WATER.
Take 40 grains sulphate of zinc to ½ pint of warm soft water, shake
until well dissolved and cork up tightly. In using pour out about 1 tea
spoonful into a cup and bathe the eyes with it. Never use by dipping
your finger into the bottle, but pour a small quantity out into a vessel
of some kind. This is the best eye water yet introduced and will be
certain to relieve the inflamed eye. Try it and its efficacy will soon
be manifested. Always bathe the eye of an evening, just before going to
bed--if it is used during the day you should keep out of the air. If too
strong add a little water. The cost of this preparation is but 6¼ cents,
and cannot be surpassed.
ESSENCE OF CINNAMON.
Take 1 pint of alcohol, ½ ounce of oil of cinnamon, color with the
tincture of red sanders, and mix as above. This is excellent in diarrhœa,
summer complaints or looseness of the bowels.
CERTAIN CURE FOR FELON.
We have known instances of the most intense suffering, neither rest by
day or sleep at night, in which this process has effected cures. As soon
as it becomes apparent that a felon is making its appearance, which is
known by a constant soreness and pain proceeding from the bone, take
a strong cord of any kind and wrap it about the afflicted part, as
tightly as can be borne; keep it in this condition until the pain can be
endured no longer. Now loose the cords and soon as the pain, caused by
the cording subsides, tighten it again. Continue this for several days
or until the felon is completely blackened and killed.--We have known
several persons who have been afflicted with felons to try this remedy
with success--in fact we have never known it to fail. The cording stops
the circulation and then the sore has nothing to feed upon, when it soon
dies of starvation. We have faith in this remedy, even after a felon has
made considerable progress. If the felon has commenced at the bone the
sooner you have it cut the better; there is no application that will
burst or open the skin that is next to the bone, it should be cut if the
above remedy fails.--_Clipper._
CURE FOR BRONCHITIS.
Croton oil it is said will entirely remove this complaint. A minister
of the gospel who had been laid aside from his pastoral office by the
bronchitis, for three years, has entirely recovered his voice by the
application of croton oil to the surface of the throat, against the organ
affected, one drop daily rubbed over the surface produced a singular but
powerful eruption of the skin, which as it progressed restored his voice
to its full tone and vigor.
RECEIPT FOR HOGS.
That have lost their appetite. Put urine in the slop, or when you can
conveniently, urinate in the trough as you pass along. This is excellent,
but a small quantity of ashes put in their slop cannot be surpassed for
restoring the appetite, and also very good for the kidneys, worms, &c.
Give it a trial and be convinced of its efficacy.
GREASE FOR CARRIAGES, &c.
Take 1 pound of beeswax, ½ pint of lamp black, mix well while hot, and
when cooling off, add oil until it becomes of a proper consistency. In
the winter season add more oil. This makes a lasting grease, which cannot
be surpassed for carriages, &c.
FOR PLAGUE BLISTER.
Take sassafras leaves and dip them in warm water, then take castile soap
and make a thick lather, and apply with a soft brush as far as the sore
or inflammation extends, then apply the sassafras leaves, warm 3 or 4
thick, tie it up loosely, renew every 8 hours. This cannot be surpassed
for inflammation of this nature. Give it a trial and its effects will
soon be felt. Use none but castile soap.
The following certificate attests the value of this simple cure:--
MIDDLETOWN Frederick Co., Md.
June 5th, 1852.
_To all whom it may concern, greeting_:--
I hereby certify, that some time in March, 1847, my wife was
afflicted with a pain and swelling in her arm, which proved
extremely painful, and appeared to be contracting the arm,
leaving a red or purple streak as far as the swelling extended.
As some three or four of my children were then lying sick with
scarlet fever, also a negro girl, several physicians were sent
for to attend them, who were consulted in relation to my wife.
Some pronounced it the hysterics, others attempted to effect a
cure, but all in vain; at length it was pronounced a pest or
plague blister and very dangerous. The person who informed me
what it was, recommended me to Mr. J. D. Koogle for a cure. Mr.
Koogle came and applied poultices, which in an hour or two
after the first application relieved her so much as to enable
her to sleep, which she had not done for ten or twelve days.
Previous to this the physicians recommended every thing that
had a tendency to induce sleep without avail. Nothing could
ease her pain so as to enable her to sleep. She continued the
poultices recommended by Mr. Koogle until finally relieved,
though they left the hand and part of the arm perfectly
hollow--nothing but skin, bone and sinew--yet the parts are
now entirely healed and as full as usual, without any other
application.
Yours, &c.
JACOB T. C. MILLER.
RECEIPT FOR HUMORS OR BREAKING OUT ON CHILDREN.
Take wheat flour and put into a hot stove, roast it to a brown color,
stir and mix it while browning. In using sprinkle on the sore--it
scarcely ever fails to heal after all other remedies have failed. The
sores should not be dried up too suddenly, and particularly when it is a
general breaking out over the face, hands, &c.
CERTAIN CURE FOR BITE OF A SNAKE.
Drink as much whiskey as you can. It will do no harm and is a certain
cure--use it immediately after the bite.
CURE FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
Take of elecampane root 1½ ounces, cut it fine or pulverize if you can,
then boil it in one pint of new milk down to a quarter of a pint. Take
this in the morning fasting, and eat no food till 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. It should be taken every other morning--the two last doses
must weigh 2 ounces each. This may be used several times a day.
CLAY POULTICE FOR MAN OR HORSE.
Take of yellow clay any quantity, and add vinegar enough to form a
poultice, apply it cold. To a sprained joint it gives very speedy relief,
often cures in one night. This cannot be surpassed for a fresh sprain on
horses.
DOMESTIC TONIC.
Yellow poplar bark, dogwood bark, wild cherry bark, 1 ounce of each;
pulverize fine, and add to them 1 quart of whiskey, shake the bottle and
let it stand one week. A table spoonful in water three times a day is a
dose in cases of debility after fevers.
OINTMENT FOR SCROFULUS ULCERS.
Take of basilicon ointment 1 ounce, venice turpentine ½ oz., pulverized
verdigris 2 drachms, beef gall ½ ounce, mix them perfectly over a slow
fire. Dress the sores twice a day--do not wet them but wipe them clean
with a soft rag.
GREEN OINTMENT.
Take basilicon ointment ½ pound, finely pulverized¾ verdigris ½ ounce;
melt the basilicon slowly and add the verdigris, stirring until it is
well mixed. This is a good dressing for old sores and ring worms on the
head or face.
TINCTURE OF PEACH KERNELS.
Take ½ pint of peach kernels, bruise them and add one quart of whiskey.
Take a table spoonful three times a day. This often cures gravel in the
form of sand or fine gravel in the bladder. We have known the patient to
pass off gravel in large quantities while using this remedy.
FOR TRANSPLANTING TREES.
That are flagging or drooping, or looking as if they were going to say
good bye. First reduce the top litter, or if needed a good deal, it may
be that there is more top to exhaust than root to supply; then loosen
the soil and water if dry, and lastly mulch the ground as far as the
roots extend. This you may do by covering it with three or four inches of
straw. Litter tan bark or something of that sort to keep the roots cool
and moist, so as to cause them into new growth. Watering a transplanted
tree every day, letting the surface dry hard with the sun and wind, is
too much like basting a joint of meat before the kitchen fire to be
looked upon as decent treatment, for any thing living when you water do
it after the sun sets. If you find your fruit trees barren from too great
running to wood, (about the first of June is the time) clip or pinch off
the ends of the side shoots, so as to expend its substance in making buds
instead of wasting all the sap in over growth.
HOW TO KEEP APPLES.
Spread on the floor oats to the depth of about two inches; the oats
should be good and properly cured, and then place your apples side by
side on the oats until they are covered over with them. Then cover your
apples again, and continue laying a course of apples and oats until
you have finished your crop. If they are properly put up they will
keep better in this way than any other way. Farmer try it and convince
yourself.
DOMESTIC YEAST.
Boil 1 pound of good flour, ¼ pound of brown sugar and a little salt with
two gallons of water for one hour. When milk warm bottle it and cork
close; it will be fit for use in 24 hours; 1 pound yeast will make 18
pounds of bread.
COMPOST TO PREVENT CROWS AND INSECTS FROM TAKING CORN.
Take from 1 to 2 pounds sulphor brimstone mixed with plaster and ashes,
and a handful scattered on to the corn as it peeps out of the ground will
be sufficient to protect an acre from their ravages. Brimstone is a good
manure on all soil that does not abound in it.
HOW TO DESTROY LICE OR VERMIN ON CHICKENS.
Place among the sand and dust that the hens dust themselves in ½ pound
black sulphor and also sprinkle some lime in and mix. This will keep
them off and give them a glossy appearance. If infested with these
insects dampen the skin under the feathers with a little water, then
sprinkle a little black sulphor on the skin, and in 12 hours they will
all disappear. Also, previous to setting a hen, if the nest be slightly
sprinkled with the sulphor there, is no danger of the hen becoming
annoyed by them.
WORTH KNOWING.