Hi, Everybody - Recently I was given an old book called "Mrs. Winslow's Domestic Receipt Book for 1875" Published in 1874 by Jeremiah Curtis and Sons and John I. Brown and Sons. It is full of recipes and home remedies. Yes, I know it says "receipts" instead of "recipes" in the title, but honest-to-goodness, that's what the title is!!! <lol> Anyway, please excuse any duplications as this is going to a number of lists. Thought you might enjoy seeing a few of these home remedies. Just the standard disclaimer: "Please do not [necessarily] try these at home!" <vbg> S.L. Willig: SWillig@GenExchange.org NYGenExchange State Coordinator: http://www.genexchange.org/state.cfm?state=ny List Admin. for Empey-l, Garfield-l, and for VTAddiso, NHSulliv, IRL-Palatine, NYWashington-Rooters, NYWarren-Rooters, NY-Rooters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 281 Salve for a Burn Take a tablespoonful of lard, half a tablespoonful of spirits of turpentine, and a piece of resin as big as a walnut, and simmer them together till they are well incorporated; when cool, keep it in a box. In case of a burn, warm this so that you can spread it over a piece of linen, and apply it to the burn. 281 Accidents by Fire If females and children must wear cotton and linen dresses and aprons in the winter, use the following precaution. The dresses, after being washed, should be dipped in strong alum water, which will prevent them from blazing, if they should take fire. 288. Blackberry Jam Take three pints of ripe blackberries, and jam them with your hands fine; add their weight in loaf sugar, stew them twenty minutes; set them away, with the mouth of the jar open, till they are cold. This is good for sore mouth, dysentery and diarrhea. 289. Colic For a person afflicted with the bilious colic take the bran of corn meal, make it into a pudding, sprinkle mustard over it, and apply it, as hot as can be borne, to the bowels. It is said that this will give relief. Drink hot peppermint water. 290. Cancer Mix the yolk of an egg with fine salt, make it into a salve; spread it on a piece of soft leather, and apply it; change it every day, and a cure will soon be effected. Another Remedy: Use strong potash, made of the rey of the ashes of red oak bark, boiled down to the consistence of molasses, and cover the cancer with it, and in about an hour afterwards cover the plaster with tar, which must be removed after a few days; and if protuberances appear in the wound, apply more potash to them and the plaster again, until they all disappear, after which heal the wound with any common salve. This treatment has been known to effect a perfect cure. 291. Cancers and Sores Indian Remedy Take the roots of pitch-pine saplings, chop them up fine, and boil a three-pail-potful, until all the strength is exhausted say twenty or thirty minutes; then strain off the liquor, and boil it down to one gallon. Use it as a regular drink, till a cure is effected, in one or two months. It may be sweetened with honey, molasses, or loaf sugar. This will cure erysipelas, and other bad humours of the blood. 288. Consumption "Completely to eradicate this disease", says a correspondent of the U.S. Gazette, "I will not positively say the following remedy is capable of doing; but I will venture to affirm that by a temperate mode of living avoiding spirituous liquors wholly wearing flannel next to the skin, and taking, every morning, half a pint of new milk, mixed with a wine glassful of the compressed juice of green hoarhound, the complaint will not only be relieved, but the individual shall procure to himself a length of days beyond what its mildest form could give room to hope for. "I am myself a living witness of these beneficial effects of this agreeable, and though innocent, yet powerful application. Four weeks' use of the hoarhound and mil relieved the pains in my breast; gave me to breathe deep, long and free; strengthened and harmonized my voice; and restored me to a better state of health than I had enjoyed for years." Dr. Coteren, of Paris, recommends the inhaling of the gaseous perfume of chloride of lime, for disease of the lungs. It may be dissolved in soft water, then pour into it a little vinegar, and apply it to the nose so as to inhale freely the perfumes which the mixture will produce. The attention of a young lady, apparently in the last stage of consumption, was called to the virtues of chamomile, by observing from her window, early each morning, a dog belonging to the house, with scarcely any flesh on his bones, constantly go and lick the dew off a chamomile bed in the garden, in doing which the animal was noticed to alter his appearance, to recover strength, and finally looked plump and well. The singularity of the circumstance was impressed strongly on the lady's mind, and induced her to try what effect might be produced from following the dog's example. She accordingly procured the dew from the same bed of chamomile, drank a small quantity each morning, and after continuing it for some time, experienced some relief; her appetite became regular, she found a return of spirits, and in the end was completely cured.