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"Honey has also great value as a medicine for children, and is 

 readily partaken of by thorn as a choice dainty dish. It is especially 

 useful to children afflicted wiih scrofula or rickets. In difficult 

 teething, rub the gums with a mixture of honey and an emulsion of 

 quinces. For the removing of worms, honey has often been beneficially 

 used, and it is often used in diseases of the mouth and throat. 



" Honey mixed with flour and spread on linen or leather is a simple 

 remedy for bringing to head, or to maturity, boils, &c. Also, honey 

 mixed with flour or fried onions, serves an excellent purpose as a 

 covering for any hard swelling or callosity or abscess ; and for ulcers 

 it is often mixed with turpentine, tar, and tinciure of myrrh. A 

 plaster made of unslaked lime and honey has sometimes relieved most 

 obstinate sciatica. 



" If good honey is applied to inflamed wounds or boils, it lessens the 

 drawing, quiets the pain and produces a good festering or suppuration. 

 Undoubtedly, for all wounds, pustulous inflammations, bruises and bad 

 festerings, honey is the best and most reliable remedy, and affords 

 quicker and safer help than all other known plasters ; all that is needed 

 is to spread it rather thick on a piece of linen, place it upon the fresh 

 wound, bind it fast, and renew the plaster every four or five hours. 

 Of course, if bones are broken, surgical aid must be had. 



" Honey-dough — arto mele — a plaster made out of honey and ry& 

 flour or rye bread, into which henbane or other narcotic substances is 

 mixed, is an excellent means of irritation ; which should be used in 

 festering and bringing the sore to a head, and assuage the drawing 

 and pain. It should be warmed, spread on a piece of linen and placed 

 upon the sore part. 



" For persons who are weakened through fast living, honey is, of all 

 helps, the best nourishment, since it not only removes the poisons in 

 the system, but also through its virtues strengthens the system ; hence 

 it has made itself so necessary to the inhabitants of the Orient. " 



RECIPES. 



HONEY CAKES. 



In Germany " Honig Kuchen " or honey cake, is quite an 

 institution. The booths exhibiting this article in all its 

 varieties form one of the most characteristic features of the 

 German Kirmesses or Fairs, which are held periodically in 

 most of the towns, as well as at the Schutsen Fests and all 

 similar public festivities. Some of the following recipes taken 

 from Mr. Newman's book no doubt represent the articles ex- 

 posed for sale on such occasions : — 



Hamburg Honey Cake. — The flour intended for this cake should 

 be well dried and sifted before being weighed ; then take twelve 

 pounds of flour and twelve pounds of honey ; bring the honey to a 



