RECIPES. 689 



one-half ounces; oil of sweet almonds, four teaspoonfuls; gum camphor, three-quarter 

 ounce, made fine. Set on the stove until dissolved, constantly stirring. Use only 

 just sufficient heat to melt them together. While warm, pour into moulds, if desired 

 to sell ; then paper and put up in tinfoil. If for your own use, put up in a tight box. 

 Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three times daily, especially at bed-time. It is 

 also good for salt-rheum and piles. 



Burns, Salve to Cure Without Pain ; also Sore or Cracked Nipples. Take 

 equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax; melt the oil and wax together, and 

 when a little cool add the turpentine and stir until cold, which keeps them evenly 

 mixed. Apply by spreading upon thin cloth (linen is best), and only apply a thin 

 cloth over the one on which the salve is spread, unless the burn is very extensive, and 

 more covering is needed to keep the patient warm. 



Felon, if Recent, to Cure in Six Hours. Take Venice turpentine, one ounce; 

 and put into it half a teaspoonful of water, and stir them with a rough stick until the 

 mass looks like candied honey; then spread a good coat on a cloth and wrap around 

 the finger. If the case is only recent, it will remove the pain in six hours; but if of 

 long standing, it will require a longer time. 



Frost Bites and Itching Feet, a Liniment to Cure. Take alcohol, one quart; 

 Thompson's No. 6, one quart; and camphor gum, one ounce; this cures frost bites, 

 itching feet, etc. Use it freely and often; it makes a good liniment also for common 

 purposes. 



Cure for Corns. If a cripple will take a lemon, cut off a piece, then nick it so 

 as to let in the toe with the corn, the pulp next the corn, tie this on at night so that 

 it cannot move, he will find next morning that, with a blunt knife, the corn will 

 come away to a great extent. Two or three applications of this will make " a poor 

 cripple happy for life." 



Syrup for Consumptives. Take a peck of tamarack bark; spikenard root, one- 

 half pound; dandelion root, one-quarter pound; hops, two ounces. Boil these suffi- 

 ciently to get the strength, in two or three gallons of water; strain and boil down to 

 one gallon. When blood warm, add three pounds of honey and three pints of best 

 brandy; bottle and keep in a cool place. 



Dose. Drink freely of it three times a day before meals, at least a gill or more, 

 according to the strength and age of the patient. 



Ointment for Old Sores. Take red precipitate, one-half ounce; sugar of lead, 

 one-half ounce; burnt alum, one ounce; white vitriol, one-quarter ounce, or a little 

 less; all to be very finely pulverized; have mutton tallow made warm, one-half pound; 

 stir all in, and stir until cool. 



Dr. Peabody's Cure for Jaundice, in its Worst Forms. Take red iodide of 

 mercury, seven grains; iodide of potassium, nine grains; aqua dis. (distilled water), 

 one ounce. Mix. Commence by giving six drops three or four times a day, increas- 

 ing one drop a day, until twelve or fifteen are taken at a dose. Give in a little water, 

 immediately after meals. If it gives a griping sensation in the bowels, and fullness 

 in the head when you get up to twelve or fifteen drops, go back to six drops, and up 

 again as before. 



Pinusine Corn Killer. Tincture of pine needles, four hundred parts; liquid 

 ammonia caustic, four hundred parts; tincture of iodine, two hundred parts. This 

 fluid may also be employed for frost bites. 



Mexican Oil. Petroleum, two ounces, fluid; aqua ammonia, one ounce, fluid; 

 brandy, one drachm, fluid. Mix. This is also known as Mexican Mustang Liniment. 



