Old Fashioned Remedies for Illness

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Old Fashioned Remedies for Illness

 

 

 

 

Cure for Sore Throat

 

Purge with calomel, then take Borax, bole Armenic, and Sang. Draconis of each an equal quantity; when finely powdered, to a quarter of an ounce of that mixture, add 3 gills of vinegar and 4 ounces of honey, which shake well together for a Gargle, and use it warm every two hours.

 

Polipus in the Nose

 

Take blood root powdered fine, and used as snuff, will cure.

 

For the Ulcers

 

Take 4 ounces honey, tinct. of myrrh and vinegar, of each an ounce, loaf sugar, two ounces, Borax and balsam sulphur, of each half an ounce--mix this to a balsam with the yolk of an egg, with a rag tied to a skewer to cleanse and anoint the ulcers after every gargling.

 

Whooping Cough

 

Take a wine glass of rum, and a little spirits of turpentine, shake well together, rub the child by the fire gently down the neck and chin, night and morning; in a few days the cough will be cured.

 

Another

 

Take dried Colts foot, a good handful, cut it fine and boil it in a pint of spring water, to half a pint, when almost cold, strain it and squeezing the herb as dry as you can. Dissolve in it half an ounce of sugar candy finely powdered, add one spoonful and a half of tincture of Liquorice. Give a child one spoonful 3 or 4 times a day and more to a grown person. It will cure in three or four days.

 

A Mouth-wash for the Canker

 

Take sage, rose leaves, blue violets, a little alum and honey.

 

Nerve ointment

 

Take neats foot oil, oil terebinth, brandy and oil of John's wort, beef gall and simmer together.

 

Dropsy

 

Six quarts old hard cider, 1 pint mustard seed pounded, 1 double handful parsley roots, do. lignum vitae shavings, 1 do. horse radish roots, simmer over a slow fire 48 hours, take a teacupful three times a day. It operates powerfully by urine.

 

Another

 

Put a large cup full of bohea tea into a tea pot, steep it, drink the liquor by degrees, and eat all the tea leaves or grounds, in the course of the forenoon. Do the like in the afternoon, and so proceed on for 3 or 4 days. The water will be discharged by natural evacuations.

 

Another

 

A strong decoction of the leaves or ripe berries of dwarf elder has cured a man of an inveterate dropsy in about a week. Sweeten it with molasses.

 

Rickets

 

Buckshorn roots that grows in meadows two ounces, New-England Gentian two ounces, Rhubarb 50 grains, Stoned Raisins one pound, put them into a quart of good wine, steep them 24 hours and give two spoonfulls morning and evening.

 

The Stone

 

Take Alicant Soap 8 parts, Oyster Shell Lime 1 part, beat into a mass with water, then dissolve the mass into an Emulsion, by adding more water so as to make 6 quarts of the emulsion, from every pound of soap avoirdupois; let it stand a month, stir it frequently and give half a pint three times a day.

 

Stone or Gravel

 

Take a large handful of the fibres or roots of garden Leeks, put them into two quarts of soft water; simmer gently over the fire close stopped, to the consumption of one half; pour off and drink a pint in the day, morning, noon, and night. This is for an adult--it is some weeks before relief appears; perseverance gains the point.

 

Corns

 

It is said, if you bind a lock of unwrought cotton on a Corn for a week or two, you will find in an unaccountable manner, the corn will be dislodged.

 

Tooth-Ache

 

Burn a sheet of clean white writing paper on a clean white plate, take up the oil with clean cotton, and apply it in or on the tooth 12 or 15 minutes.

 

Putrid Sore Throat

 

Take a handful of hops, steep in spirits and apply a common funnel to the liquid, let the patient apply the funnel to his throat, and thereby absorb the steam. Let the hops be applied like a poultice to the throat, and occasionally repeated.

 

Gout

 

Apply a Leek poultice to the part affected; numerous instances of its efficacy in this painful disorder, have recently occurred; its culture should be cherished as a medicine of inestimable value.

 

Weak and Weeping Eyes

 

Make a strong decoction of camomile, boiled in sweet cow's milk; batho the eyes several times a day, as warm as can be borne. It must be continued several weeks.

 

Rheumatism

 

Put 1 ounce of gum camphor into a quart of spirits, and as much of the bark of sassafras roots as the spirits will cover, steep 12 hours at least--take half a wine glass full at bed time, in the morning, and before noon. Rub the parts affected with it--the dose may be increased if necessary--it produces perspiration--avoid taking cold.