CHAPTER .XXXV. 



Recipes. 



LEMONS. 



Lemons a Cure for Consumption. A correspondent of an 

 English medical journal furnishes the following recipe as a new 

 cure for consumption : 



"Put a dozen whole lemons into cold water, and boil them 

 until soft, but not too soft. Roll and squeeze until all the juice be 

 extracted. Sweeten the juice enough to make it palatable and 

 then drink it. Use as many as a dozen per day. If they cause 

 pain or looseness of the bowels, lessen the number and use only 

 five or six per day till better. By the time you shall have used 

 five or six dozens you will have an appetite and begin to gain 

 strength. You need not use so many, of course, as you improve. 

 Follow these directions and we know you will not regret it, if 

 there be any help for you. We know of two cases, both of 

 which were in the last stages of consumption. Both were given 

 up by the physicians, yet they were cured by using lemons as 

 stated. One lady in particular was bed-ridden, and very low. 

 She had tried almost everything money could procure, but in 

 vain. To please a friend, she was finally persuaded to use the 

 lemons. She began to use them in February, and in April she 

 weighed one hundred and forty pounds. She is to-day a well 

 woman, and likely to live as long as any of us." 



LEMON CATSUP. 



"One pound and a quarter of salt, one-quarter of a pound of 

 ground mustard, one ounce each of mace, nutmeg, cayenne and 

 allspice, one gallon of cider vinegar, eight or nine garlic cloves, 



